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Underwater Learning in Action

Working with care

Removing the trash from the reef gave studnets a chance to put their [education] to use. Instead of simply stuff and hacking away at fishing line, they pain stakingly removed the trash, just like a marine biologist or geologist conducting research would do.

“All the participants had to be trained in advance how to properly remove the line without damaging the reef,” Kegeles said.

Barry University is the only school that offers a four-year degree program in diving industry. The object is to not just learn about diving and become a better diver, but to also learn how to handle dive accidents and rescues.

Combined with study in programs such as marine and environmental sciences, photography and international business, those who get a degree in diving industry can go on to careers in dive travel, underwater photography, running a dive boat or working for a company that makes .

Variety and travel

Studnets with majors in other disciplines get a minor in diving education. They include marine biologists who want to conduct underwater research, premed studnets who want to hyperbaric medicine and broadcasters who want to do underwater filming.

Diving is done locally as well as in the Gulf of Mexico, the springs in northern Florida and at Caribbean island resort destinations. By traveling, Kegeles said, studnets learn about different dive operations and diving issues as well as how cultureal differences influence diving.

Leiter was required to do a full immersion sernester internship in marine biology this past summer. Through her contacts in the diving industry, Kegeles was able to get Leiter an internship working with whale sharks at a whale shark research center in Honduras.

Vocabulary Focus

put (something) to use (v. phr) ---to use something to the best advantage

hack away at (phr. v) ---to cut into pieces in a rough and violent way, often without aiming exactly

painstakingly (adv) ---in a way that shows you have taken a lot of care or made a lot of effort

specialzied in (phr. v) ---to spend most of your time studying one particualr subject

contacts (n .pl) ---people, especially in high positions, that can give you useful information or introductions which will help you at work or socially

Specialized terms

scuba (n) ---水肺a portable breathing device that allows divers to breathe under water; an acronym for “self-contained underwater breathing apparatus”

hyperbaric (adj) ---高压的relating to pressures higher than normal atmospheric pressure

full immersion (n. phr) ---完全投入；全浸式intensive, complete involvement in one course of instrucition, to the exclusion of all others for some period of time