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Day 1

Before yesterday I had never even flown on a plaine. The week has just begun and I have crammed more firsts

into these past two days than most of my years. Now that means one of two things, either I have lead a pretty

boring life, or the last two days have been rediculous. For now I'll choose the latter.
We started at the end of a crazy week, well atleast for me anyway. The morninng finally came and we headed

for the airport. My dad gave me the going away talk for most of the car ride.… Continue

Well i had a tough time coming up with a question but I finally did. If things like tube worms and anglerfish are able to adapt and thrive in their seemingly impossible conditions aren't they a perfect example of survival of the fitest and should't we be studying them more closely? I found an article that tied in an economic answer to the last part of that question. It talked about how since we need oil to keep basically this whole country together we are constantly having to find new sources of… Continue

Well it may be just me, but I think this chapter is almost like a continuation of the last one. But at the end when they started talking about the actual Apo scenario it became a little more clear to me why the old saying is so prevalent. Anything that is worth having is worth working hard for, or something to that effect. In the case of Apo a resurgence of reef inhabitants is worth waiting for, especially when it stimulates the economy in the process.
If anything is to be taken away from this i… Continue

In Chapter 11 Osha introduced me to a little thing called blast fishing. Now when I say introduced I mean reintroduced because when i read this chapter I was reminded of those shirts that had the two guys on a boat out in the middle of a lake with an explosive of some sort and above it says "Redneck Fishing." Except the Indonesians have been doing it for longer, and when you do that in a lake it doesn't wreck corals. But I will give them credit though, for pure dedication. I mean really when do… Continue

I once heard some of my friends from the swim talking about humans by nature are basically evil and that when the human element is mixed into a normally innocent situation it becomes tainted and falls apart. After reading this chapter I feel like I should call him and ask him if he read it as well. But that is unlikely seeing as how he went to Leblond and they don't offer this class there... not that everyone regardless of being in the class shouldn't read the book.
Anyway I liked the continuein… Continue