The t-shirts say “It’s Better in the Bahamas.” Well, what’s better than witnessing bioluminescence on a night dive or stalking abundant sea life through intricate reefs?
At the Gerace Research Center on the eastern Bahamian island of San Salvador, classrooms are not a bunch of desks inside four walls. They’re reef walls teeming with brightly colored marine life and descending to 6000 feet. They’re also mangrove channels, seagrass beds and blindingly white beaches. Aspiring marine biologists come here with a larval-stage interest and fascination with the underwater world and, under the guidance of professional scientists, nurture it into a full-blown, hands-on exploration of tropical marine biology.
“I’ve been diving for years but never had the chance to observe corals and fish I learned about in lectures the night before.” — Wells Johnson, San Francisco, CA
Master the study and analysis of coral reefs. Dive your way to advanced PADI specialty certifications. Anchor traditional learning with an unrestrained sense of wonder and adventure. Then return with perhaps the most rewarding three college credits you will ever earn.
COLLEGE CREDIT
Three marine science college credits through Lesley University
COMMUNITY SERVICE
10 hours of community service
TRAINING & CERTIFICATION
- PADI Open Water Diver
- PADI Advanced Open Water Diver
- PADI Underwater Naturalist
- PADI AWARE Fish Identification
- PADI AWARE Coral Reef Conservation
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Costs & Dates
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costs and trip dates
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- Highlights
- Experience hands-on marine biology studies and research
- Explore thriving reefs
- Take part in marine ecology projects
- Collect data for the REEF Fish Survey Project
- Earn scuba certifications
- Island exploration and cave tour
- Experience Required
- No experience necessary
- However, if you do not have your scuba certification you will need to arrive four days earlier to begin your scuba certification course. Therefore you should select the trip that starts June 22 or July 18 if you are not a certified scuba diver.
- Locations
- Dixon Hill Lighthouse
- Gerace Research Center
- Green Cay
- Pigeon Creek
- Riding Rock Point
- Runway 10-Dive Site
- San Salvador
- Sandy Point
- Snapshot Reef- Dive Site
- Telephone Pole-Dive Site
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