They need someone to run checks on three Living Museums project sites: Guadalupe, Morales, and Captain Kidd. At each site they want to check the following things every two to three months.
1. The three sites are ship wrecks with items such as cannons, anchors, etc. some of the items they found there and some of the items they placed. They need to check if the items are still there and if there is any damage to the items.
2. Some of the items have biology or soft coral growing on them. For example, one cannon at the William Kidd wreck has two sea fans at the end of it. They need to check this biology, if it is still there or if there is new biology and the health of the biology.
3. At the William Kidd wreck there are two types of endangered coral, Staghorn and Elkhorn. They need to make sure that the coral is still there and is healthy. Also, if there are any pieces of live coral that we can save, we received training in this procedure. With two zip ties, we put broken off pieces of Elkhorn coral to an Elkhorn coral base. If done correctly the two will grow together and become one coral and continue to live.
4. Also, we would check on any other damage at the site. For example, any anchor damage or damage to the buoys, and any signs of overfishing.
The thing that I am most excited about is saving the endangered coral. Also, they would like me to work on community outreach to get the locals involved. However, we are still making plans and arrangements about what I will specifically be doing.
Last month we did training for checking and maintaining the sites. Also, how to zip tie the coral together…
