Stylish & Saving the Oceans! Your Help is Needed! “ShopForSharks.Com”

Look Great, While Also Saving the Oceans…   Dear all, It is with great excitement that I inform you of a new initiative from the RJ Dunlap Marine Conservation Program at the University of Miami (RJD). We have created an online shop with extremely cool fashion items and gear. All proceeds go directly to supporting […]

Smooth Sweet Sunday

Sunday, March 27th 2011 After a very unlucky day on the water on Saturday, Captain Curt was determined to catch some sharks today, hopefully even a large bull shark, on our trip out to our site in Everglades National Park. He predicted that we were overdue for a large bull shark and that we would […]

The Horrible, No Good, Worst Day Ever!!

Ok, not really…,but sort of. Saturday, March 26th 2011 Fresh off an awesome trip to the Dry Tortugas over spring break, we were hoping that the good fortunes would continue to be with us as the shark trips were brought back to Sea Base. The conditions could not have been any better- a light chop […]

An Amazing Trip of Many Firsts

Wednesday, March 16th – Sunday, March 20th 2011 This five day long expedition was set in the Dry Tortugas, a small group of islands about 70 miles west of Key West. This area was chosen, and is particularly special, because of its status as a very well protected national park. In being such, special permits […]

Saving Sharks with Sophi – Blog 31 – “Shark Month”

Blog 31 – “Shark Month” My church had “Shark Month” in January to help me raise more donations.  I gave a speech to all the Sunday School and they had a big board of pictures up.  All the kids “noisy offering” is going to help sharks.  It’s “noisy offering” because we all drop our coins […]

Saving Sharks with Sophi – Blog 30 – “Make a Wish”

Blog 30 “Make A Wish” I turned 8 years old and I had a shark/bowling party.  My mom surprised me with a hammerhead cake… it was so cool!  My friends loved it! ——————- Now eight year old Sophi Bromenshenkel is on a crusade to save sharks and the oceans.  Follow her blog with us as […]