“What the heck is that?!”
You’ve just asked the most common diving question–and with good reason. In the tropics, there is an infinite variety of life.
Creatures from the bizarre to the common live together in this intriguing realm. Some fish wear brightly colored ornamentation to challenge your curiosity, others live nearly hidden by camouflage.
Our Tropical Marine Biology camps and marine science summer camps, run by our staff marine biologists and oceanographers, offer a fascinating opportunity to affirm or further define your interest in this science while sailing and scuba diving on the reefs. The qualifications and certifications that you earn at our marine biology camp can also be applied toward your high school transcript, as many schools do transfer marine biology credit for these programs.
While reef awareness and underwater naturalist certifications are always part of our advanced diving programs, our marine biology summer camps for high school students reach well beyond these specialties, offering a scientific approach for those who want to learn more.
Our live-aboard marine biology summer camps for high school students combines scuba diving and field studies with marine sciences, concentrating on building knowledge in this growing area of environmental science.
The activities and study groups in our marine science summer camps are very practical in nature. Our students learn by doing, seeing and experiencing those things that most students only read about in books.
AQ’s Marine Biology camps for high school students are offered in the British Virgin Islands, run aboard 46-foot catamarans and 50-foot sloops, which become our home and floating classroom and lab for the duration of the voyage. When you attend one of our marine science summer camps, you will become proficient in sailing as you learn to navigate the yacht from island to island and site to site and you’ll develop your scuba diving skills too.
Typical Marine Biology Summer Camp Modules
- Water: The basis for life
- Coral Reef Evolution, Structure and Growth
- The Reefs and Lagoons
- Interrelationships of Marine Life
- Sponges, Jellyfish, Crustaceans, Mollusks
- Artificial Reefs
- Mangrove Biology
- Shark Biology
- Fish Biology & Dissection
View our Marine Bio Study Guide
