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<\/a>In order to be science enabled I had to get 98% on my in-water and computer fish ID tests. With 150 fish to learn, it was quite daunting initially and took me quite a while before I was confident in the water to know what I was seeing. The most amazing thing about this is that 5 months on, I still get a thrill when I’m diving and I can identify the majority of the fish that I’m seeing on a dive. I love it when one of our 150 fish shows up on a dive if I haven’t seen it for a while. I saw a scythe triggerfish today and greeted it like an old friend because it’s been months since I saw one. I felt so happy that I saw it, and instantly knew what it was. I have Tristan (one of our field scientists) to thank for this, as his training was rigorous and, at times, relentless. But it was all worth it.<\/p>\nBut being able to identify fish on site is not the most amazing thing about diving here. It’s the fact that there’s more fish out there that I don’t know. Last week, I had a fantastic dive on one of our near shore sites and was so excited by the new fish that I’d never seen before, that I had to rush back, go to our fish ID books, and work out what they were. It was a great feeling to identify them, and know that in over 400 dives (not just here!), it’s possible that I’ve never positively identified those fish before – possibly never even seen at least one of them before. Just in case you’re interested, they were: a yellowsaddle goatfish, a blackedge thicklip wrasse and a sunset wrasse. I’m sure that no matter how many fish I learn, I’ll never lose the thrill of coming back from a dive with a new fish to identify, look up and write into my log book.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Ruth: I have now been in Andavadoaka working for Blue Ventures for 7 months. I’ve been ‘fish enabled’ for about 5 of those months, and am out there doing fish point outs and tests with volunteers during their training […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":28415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"yoast_head":"\n
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<\/a>In order to be science enabled I had to get 98% on my in-water and computer fish ID tests. With 150 fish to learn, it was quite daunting initially and took me quite a while before I was confident in the water to know what I was seeing. The most amazing thing about this is that 5 months on, I still get a thrill when I’m diving and I can identify the majority of the fish that I’m seeing on a dive. I love it when one of our 150 fish shows up on a dive if I haven’t seen it for a while. I saw a scythe triggerfish today and greeted it like an old friend because it’s been months since I saw one. I felt so happy that I saw it, and instantly knew what it was. I have Tristan (one of our field scientists) to thank for this, as his training was rigorous and, at times, relentless. But it was all worth it.<\/p>\n