Acknowledged that, LMRT will be leaving to the island, Koh Seh, once every month. Now, we have another trip! It began from 16th-19th of November. In this trip, we’re focusing on how to survey, getting us to feel the feeling and the reality of doing the survey, and learning about substrates and invertebrates.
This trip is also the last trip that our dive instructor, Christin, is going to be with us since she has to leave to Egypt. After Christin’s gone, we’ll have new dive instructor, Nicholas. Despite all the dive instructors, diving continues to be my favorite hobbies that always bring me paradise! I enjoy it as much as I enjoy my whole life. Now, diving plays a really important role in my life which I never could think of and tell them that they’re mentally wrong if someone were to tell me 10 years ago that I’m going to be a diver. On the other hand, experiencing the survey process requires lots of patience. We have three different surveys including fish, substrate, and invertebrate. We’re not really focused on which survey we going to do yet; however, we’re just looking the overall view and survey as a whole. If we talk about the survey as a whole, the process of it is laying a 100 meters transect line and swim as slow as possible in the rate of 2.5 meters per minute and the total survey hour should be one hour. However, in this practice, we’re only doing 50 meters for 30 minutes. It is really slow that requires lots of patience.
Doing survey is about collecting data about fish, substrate, and invertebrate by counting them! The first dive is just to get us to feel comfortable about our speed underwater. On the second dive, we added the slate in order for us to note down everything we saw. It’s harder since we got slate on our hand and still need to manage the time to swim very slowly. It’s getting better through dives. Finally, we can control our speed and note down everything that we saw.
On the other hand, we have to study for substrate and invertebrate. Since we already get the idea of substrates, we’re going to go straight to the exam. We did version A and version B. The first time, I got 34/50; however, on the version B, I got 49/50. On the last night, we study invertebrates and get ready for the exam when another trip comes. Overall, this trip is really great that it flies so fast. It always flies fast when we enjoy it. Looking forward to our new dive instructor, invertebrates exam, and other upcoming thrilling trips.
“New achievement as always, LMRT”. – Karen Krieger, our learning facilitator
