Lionfish

we slowly descended into the water. I remember being amazed by the sheer multitude of fish swimming around the reef. The coral in the spot we went was very colorful, and was barely damaged at all. It was gorgeous. We saw Moray Eels, Eagle Rays, Lionfish, Barracudas, and Caribbean Lobsters. I was amazed, i’d never seen anything like it before. I had only ever seen pictures. I was introduced to a whole new world that day. I knew from that point that scuba diving was going to be a significant part…

KENYA Kenya was named after Mount Kenya, which is the second highest mountain in Africa, after Kilimanjaro. Diving in Kenya is only available in Mombasa coastline along the Indian Ocean. Mombasa Airport is on the mainland, but the town of Mombasa is across a bridge on an island. The following diving locations are found along the Indian Ocean: Mwanyaza North Mwayanza North is located in Diani Beach, Mombasa County. It’s an exciting diving site of marine biology, this site is hard to find, but…

Melody is a ten year old girl but can’t do anything a regular person can do. She can’t walk, talk, or do anything on her own. She has Cerebral Palsy, so she has been stuck in a wheelchair since she was big enough to fit in one. Her disability stops her from talking, Melody often thinks that she’s a ten year old that has never single word in her life. She always gets upset when she tries to say something and nobody understands what she is saying. Like the time when they went to the store and she…

I do have two thoughts that I believe need to be a part of the discussion in each case. The first is that wherever possible we need to prevent the damage where we can. This was very much brought home to me both in the Lionfish video in our lab for this module and the statement on page 85 of our textbook that some communities will never recover back to their original state once a disturbance has occurred. So if we did not remove the wolves (a keystone species) from the…

Within the community of Swansea, I believe that a problematic issue in the environment is the amount of pollution present throughout Swansea Channel, and more specifically, under Swansea Bridge. To further understand the extent of this predicament and identify the main problems and potential solutions, I decided to interview various locals, figure out the most common types of pollution present, investigate how the pollution is affecting the environment, interview a dive expert and get some facts…