What did we do?

After checking some maps at a marine lab, we chose two reefs to explore with our ROV. White Banks Reef gets a lot of human traffic and Dino's Rock is pretty deserted. We marked four different spots every five meters. We used the ROV to check out the reef's health at each marked spot. We recorded any disease or damage. We looked at the ROV's videotape and gave each spot a rating from 1-5 on how healthy it seemed. (One meant unhealthy, and five meant healthy.) Then, we recorded our data in a bar graph. more...