Blog 27 – Saving Sharks with Sophi – “RREA Speech”

Blog 27 – Saving Sharks with Sophi – “RREA Speech” I gave a speech to the Retired Richfield Educators Association (RREA) at their Christmas party. After I told them all about what I was doing to help sharks, they had A LOT of questions for me.   I brought lots of pictures and “Sharkie” and […]

Saving Sharks with Sophi – Blog 26 – “Great Snow Hammerhead”

“Great Snow Hammerhead” My Dad and I made a new “Snow Hammerhead” in our yard. It is 30 feet long and his mouth is 8 feet wide and his dorsal fin is 8 feet tall !!! I named him “Patches”. It took us 1 week to make. We might try to paint it too! Now […]

Beautiful Day at Hawks Channel

Sunday, January 30th 2011 The weather today was perfect. A balmy 73 degrees and clear blue skies gave the RJ Dunlap crew hope of another great day out on the water. Joined by MAST Academy, we set off towards Hawks Channel (which should really be renamed ‘Nurse Shark City’). Out of the eight sharks we […]

Nurses and Tigers and Hammers, Oh My!

Saturday, January 29th 2011 Like most days we stepped into the chill of an early South Florida morning. Little did we know our trip with South Broward High School was going to be very eventful… The day started out like any other RJD trip. Everybody went to work extending lines, baiting hooks, and going about […]

Hello 2011, Let the Fun Begin!

Friday, January 28th 2011 I think I can safely say that today’s trip was one of the “freshest” trips I have been on in a while. New interns, new school, new characteristics on the sharks we caught, and some pleasant Florida weather for a change all sparked my enthusiasm and the enthusiasm of everyone on […]

New Sling, New Fun

Sunday December 5th 2010 On Sunday we had a film crew onboard shooting for a show for the History Channel that will air in February, so we were all hoping we would get something that we could satellite tag for the cameras, which we did, read on!! We also had some new things going on […]