{"id":7557,"date":"2013-11-13T23:34:30","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T07:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mlmlblog.wordpress.com\/?p=7557"},"modified":"2020-10-08T13:10:06","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T20:10:06","slug":"were-on-a-boat-student-small-boats-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/2013\/11\/13\/were-on-a-boat-student-small-boats-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Boats, Great Resource: Student Small Boats Course"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By: Scott Miller, Ichthyology Lab<\/h3>\n
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Nautical charts and tools to plan a route. We'll be navigating the high seas in no time!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

One of the perks of being an MLML student is that we get to utilize the lab's fantastic diving and boating resources - provided we get proper training first.\u00a0 While \"training\" sounds like a drag, it can actually be quite a lot of fun!\u00a0 For example, the lab recently offered a course to get checked out on the small boats.\u00a0 Getting checked out on the small boats allows us to take the boats out for thesis-related work and other lab-approved reasons, so a number of students met up at the harbor to get certified.\u00a0 After confirming that we had previously taken our online boating safety course, we began learning about nautical navigation and the basics of an outboard motor.<\/p>\n

After learning all about the boats and procedures in the morning, after lunch it was time to take to the sea.\u00a0 We separated into two smaller groups and went out on our Boston whalers.\u00a0 The helpful staff at Marine Ops guided us as we practiced maneuvering in the bay.\u00a0 Although I have boating experience on lakes, driving in-and-out of ocean swells was quite different and I had a blast learning the techniques.\u00a0 After braving the ocean, we headed back into the harbor to practice docking.\u00a0 While there wasn't too much boat traffic inside the harbor, we still had to drive carefully to avoid the otters and seals that are abundant in the area.\u00a0 We each took turns docking into different spots and under different conditions, then we took the boats back to the dock and cleaned everything up.\u00a0 Spending a beautiful afternoon on the water got at least one student excited about having the opportunity to use the boats more frequently to help with his future research!<\/p>\n

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Heading home to the Moss Landing harbor. While we technically could have asked for better weather, it really just would have been greedy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By: Scott Miller, Ichthyology Lab One of the perks of being an MLML student is that we get to utilize the lab’s fantastic diving and boating resources – provided we get proper training first.\u00a0 While “training” sounds like a drag, it can actually be quite a lot of fun!\u00a0 For example, the lab recently offered […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":291,"featured_media":351,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drop-inblog"],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"MLML Student Life","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/291"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20680,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7557\/revisions\/20680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}