Our 10 day class in Curacao's primary purpose was scientific diving. This blog will highlight some of the best animals I had the pleasure of meeting. This is a Southern Stingray, which we found cruising along the bottom of the reef at one of our Dive Sites (I believe it was the beach at DaiiBooi) [...]
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Curacao Chronicles: Love Lockdown (or: how we managed to still have a life-changing experience in the middle of a global pandemic)
A once-in-a lifetime study experience happening at the same time as a once-in-a-lifetime viral outbreak is sure to make uncertainty the only guarantee. My earlier blog mentioned some of the Covid precautions we took before the trip, but to quickly recap: The government required a negative PCR Covid test no older than 3 days at [...]
Curacao Chronicles: Getting there

A view from my flight from Miami to Curacao Hi! To quickly introduce myself, I am Mason Korman, a second year USF student studying Marine Biology! My biology 2 professor (who happened to also teach this class) mentioned a study abroad opportunity for a class called Tropical Marine Ecology and Conservation. Hearing this really piqued [...]