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Welcome Back to the Bahamas!

August 2, 2011

The screech of plane wheels, a jolt as the plane touches down, a muggy wait in line through Customs, a taxi ride to the cruise ship pier and a first glimpse of the Golden Shadow at the dock; in a …

Early on the morning of June 30th, as part of the Living Oceans Foundation’s (LOF) Global Reef Expedition (GRE), a Cessna seaplane named the Golden Eye took off from South Florida’s Opa-Locka Executive Airport bound for the southern Bahamas. Aboard …

Thank You for Having Us, St. Kitts and Nevis!

June 13, 2011

Written by Amanda Williams

Today, most of the research scientists disembarked the M/Y Golden Shadow at the conclusion of a very successful research project in St. Kitts and Nevis. As they walked down the pier, we welcomed 23 students and 4 chaperones from St. …

Best Wishes for Reef Fishes

June 12, 2011

Written by Andrew Bruckner, PhD and Amanda Williams

Over the last ten days we were fortunate to have excellent weather and a hard working research team. We completed surveys of representative reefs around both islands, hitting nearly every location we had planned. Throughout this series of blogs, I …

Safety is Our Number One Priority

June 10, 2011

Written by Amanda Williams

While our daily dives may sound calm and cheery all of the time, foul weather and scientific diving in strong currents with heavy equipment can make it challenging to even get off the Golden Shadow onto the dive boat and …