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| A creative artist with a radiant personality! |
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| Debra Smook, our program coordinator |
Deb answered our call for a program coordinator to launch AHOY!'s second semester. A printmaker, art educator,
designer and editor of the 580 photos in the impressive University of Massachusetts Dartmouth 1960-2006: Trials
and Triumph history book, Deb has a positive presence and talent which inspires our program daily.
Her sound judgement, optimism, and respectful dialogue serve as a model for our objectives. We expect that with Deb
on deck we can move AHOY! forward in new and exciting ways.
Highlights from third semester field trips:
| trip to New England Aqaurium, June 7, 08 |
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| jellyfish, seals, fishes, penguins & NB scallops OMG! |
| 4 Smook photos below shot at CCMM |
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| Cape Cod Maritime Museum |
| Catherine Macort , diver-educator, & her treasures |
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| mapping artifacts retrieved from shipwrecks |
| many shipwrecks are buried in New England waters |
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| Learning about shipwrecks |
| Cape Cod Maritime interactive learning |
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| boat building basics |
| Beautiful Cuttyhunk Island, Debra Smook photo |
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| Our destination via Gull Island |
| Keeping the Seal Watch, Debra Smook photo |
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| Out from New Bedford on the M/V Cuttyhunk Ferry |
| April 19th Seal Watch field trip |
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| Seals sunning themselves on Gull Island rocks |
| A family of harbor seals greets AHOY! |
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| they lounge in 'banana shapes' and dive when we get too close! |
| Is this a marine specimen? Debra Smook photo |
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| a real find! |
| This is a marine specimen! Debra Smook photo |
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| a real hermit crab! |
| exploring on the shore -- Debra Smook photo |
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| disembarking and discovery |
| are we having fun yet? Debra Smook photo |
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| a candid moment |
| what's under this rock! Debra Smook photo |
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| boys take a break from the action |
| AHOY! students sketch picture-perfect Cuttyhunk |
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| Students sketched marine and island life |
| see you next season! Debra Smook photo |
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| what a great day! |
Highlight from second semester:
| Fish tagging as population monitoring |
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| Students apply fish tagging basics taught by Crista Bank, guest from SMAST fisheries project |
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