Understand the sea.

After the dive to school in marine biology institutes hobby divers can also learn what to do with the colorful bustle around in the water is all about. The range of courses is huge - from "Methods of Underwater Research" to "Sex in the sea."

 

Flensburg / Munich - fish watch,
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Sharks feed, photos, night dive - the underwater world offers endless opportunities for exciting excursions. However, many sport divers, it is not permanent, on vacation, the highlights of the underwater world abzuhaken. You want to understand the rules of life in the seas determine why coral bleaching or fish swarms form. Responses to marine biological institutions and professional experts. The range of Bioseminare is great. From the slide show in the Eckkneipe to tropical holidays under the expert leadership is everything.

"We want to give eye-opening experience," says biologist Stephen Pfannschmidt, cofounder of the Munich-based Hydra Institute for Marine Sciences. "It is exciting for sports divers, sometimes a handful of sand auszusieben and the animals of the sand fauna gap under the microscope to look." Hydra has been providing 13 years of marine biology seminars on the Italian Mediterranean island of Elba. In addition to "general marine biology, marine zoology, marine habitats," and the "fish of the Mediterranean" are also "Methods of Underwater Research" on the plan.

"Each course lasts for ten days," says Pfannschmidt. "After a dive in the morning, each with a thematic motto is - for example, seagrass meadow habitat or habitat Sand reason - it is the afternoon in the classroom." There could be the participants with stereo microscopes and magnifying glasses in the sea collected plants and animals to move his body. Includes accommodation in multi-bed apartments and the cost of a scuba diving course at Hydra around 700 euros.

Diving and Learn

Following the same pattern are the courses on the neighboring island of Giglio, where the private Institute for Marine Biology (IfMB) operates a branch. The Institute has existed since 1988 and is the prototype for such facilities. The options are courses on "The coastal habitats of the Mediterranean" and the "internal problems of a Marine." Four so-called Biokurs-rate units in the area, each about three hours and five dives with own equipment costs 190 euros, excluding accommodation and travel.

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In addition to the permanent field station at Giglio operates the Institute based in Flensburg April to August in the Danish Baltic Sea coast of another branch. In sport divers can Brunsnaes weekend internships at their first glimpse into the marine biology and environmental problems the Baltic Sea win. "In the course environment to the participants, for example, with the consequences of over-fertilization apart," says marine biologist Claus Valentin, the IfMB founded. They looked at themselves, how the oxygen concentration of the water and the changing composition of the plankton. Knowledge were not necessary.

Less than scientific institutes in the private read the titles of the seminars, which the biologist Uli Erfurth from Weimar under the name Bionaut offers some "Sex in the Sea," "myth Killerhai" or "X-Files: freshwater.

"If I were a client a second time would like to have, the substance may not be too dry and too hard," says Erfurth. His "bio-discovery courses" sound even more like the curriculum: "What lives in the lake?" and "What lives in the Mediterranean Sea?".

The biological solo entertainer holds 90-minute presentations at the club home of the diving club - for example, to prepare for the common diving holiday - but also accompanied week Liveaboards
in the Red Sea. For a weekend seminar on the subject freshwater biology, aquatic or marine biology research requires Erfurth around 800 Euro fee. With a maximum of 20 participants - as much stereo Magnifiers he has baggage - are just 40 euros per person. Travel expenses for the lecturers added.

Requirement for prospective instructors

Only in very warm climes, the team of the Austrian biologist Robert Hofrichter. Its Red Sea Environmental Center (RSEC) maintains field stations in El Quseir and Dahab in Egypt Rotmeerküste. Sport divers have the choice between dives accompanied by a biologist (from 30 euros) and several courses (six days from 100 euros).

Also in Dahab is the DiveIn dive center. The foundation is working with the Egyptian Dahab Marine Research Center and advertises so, the Association of German Sports Divers (VDST) as "training marine biology" to be recognized.

A recognition by the VDST, however, almost all of the previously mentioned manufacturer. This is important for divers who are members of a club and after the basic stages of the other diving career ladder to climb. Under www.umwelt.vdst.de diving association offers an overview of authorized biology seminars.

Successful participation in such a seminar is a prerequisite, the prospective instructor must meet. Finally, they novices the world under water and that may explain why corals are not better with the fins and kills the reeds on the lakeshore eschews.