This morning saw an early data collection session so Don and Will could do the early morning wreck dive. The underwater visibility was a bit better than …
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Great Object Play Behavior, Poor Underwater Vis
Our first session for observations and video collection went well overall, even though the underwater visibility was poor – 3 m at most and silty. Still, the dolphins …
Travel, Arrival!
It was a relatively smooth day for four of us. Don, Bill, Will arrived from Houston and I arrived from Miami. Roatan was sunny and warm! The immigration line …
Data, Data, Data!
Of course, we began the day with data collection … and it was relatively quiet (maybe even a tad bit boring) for surface observations and space use data collection. Kathleen agreed, saying the underwater views were similarly quiet. There were numerous …
Double Dolphin Dare
Today was packed full of dolphins from the morning data collection session to our dolphin encounter and, slightly delayed, swim with dolphins to a lengthy/double platform session where we learned a bit more of what dolphin training involves. It was HOT and …
Coral Cuties
Our day began, as usual, with dolphin data collection. It was nearly as hot as yesterday but with no breeze and no clouds. The sea was calm and the dolphins were somewhat active in small bouts of leaping activity across the …
Dolphin Four Play
Our first day of data collection went very well and started with an introduction to the pools and where we’d collect data while Kathleen collects underwater video. She was able to collect a bit more than 30 minutes of underwater footage with the two GoPros and …
Last Full Day in Roatan!
Data collection began at 6:15 since we were all in position to conduct space use scans. We did baseline and before sessions and then Kathleen entered the water for observations with the MVA4 and GoPros. John was piloting the drone …
Water-logged!
Today was a water-filled day that we very much enjoyed! We collected data in the morning and then hightailed to breakfast so we would be on time for the double morning snorkel trip, which we enjoyed. We went near to …
Dolphin Swim Day … and also World Environment Day!
We excitedly packed our gear and donned our bathing suits for the early AM data collection because our dolphin encounter and swim were this morning after data and breakfast! The morning data collection was eventful with lots of attention paid to Kathleen’s legs (See Rocky …