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Live Dives - Live Internet Marine Labs

BMSC currently offers programs, Live Labs and Live Dives via video conferencing, developed for grades 7-12.

Live Labs and Live Dives booking form (.doc)

About Live Dives

Live Dives allows students to experience the diverse marine subtidal environment without leaving the classroom. Join SCUBA diving biologist-instructors for an engaging 45 minute undersea experience in which students interact directly with divers to explore diverse subtidal environments.  New technology allows for two-way dialogue between students and divers.  Students will assist divers by helping with data collection or by guiding divers to organisms of interest. This multidisciplinary approach to learning includes information about our diverse sub-tidal habitats and organisms, diving physiology, and physical oceanography.  Let us help you meet your learning outcomes underwater!

Current Live Dives include:

• Sub-tidal Safari: Join our diving scientists for and underwater scavenger hunt! Students assist underwater naturalists to find subtidal organisms of all shapes and sizes! You may not find any zebras or lions but you’ll be amazed at the subtidal diversity present in Barkley Sound. This program pairs nicely with the marine invertebrates Live Lab.


• Rock on Rockfish: see endangered BC rockfish in their natural habitat. Learn about monitoring their abundance and what is being done to protect them. Learn about kelp forests and why they are so important for the protection and safety of rockfish.


• Currents, plankton, and tides....oh my!: Teaching oceanography from the ocean! During this live dive students will learn about currents and subtidal planktonic organisms from instructors in the water. Divers will take students on a trip to the ocean floor to examine the effects of light attenuation and look at adaptations to a wet and wondrous world.


• click here for Curriculum Connections (PDF)

Pricing:

Each program costs $400, group discounts are available.

Program Development

BMSC is currently in the process of expanding our Internet programs to include:

• Kelp forest monitoring
• Species at risk – Abalone
• Invertebrate Scavenger Hunt
• The Physics of Diving
• The Ocean and Climate Change

Our goal is to develop programs that are highly interactive, engaging, and also meet provincial prescribed learning outcomes. New Live Labs and Live Dives programs will be added to our website as they are developed, so check back to see what’s new.