Hawaii Snorkeling 101

Snorkeling! Super fun, educational, great exercise, and a wonderful experience. However, if you're new to snorkeling and you don't know how your equipment works, what the weather is like, or basic skills, the experience can be a little scary and down right miserable.

No worries beef curries! This little guide offers some advice on how to prepare for and enjoy your snorkel experience. 

If you're about to snorkel for the first time and you're not well acquainted with the water and don't have any snorkeling skills you may find yourself in a bit of trouble.

Likeness; Animals to Trash

Photo by: Ralph Turre of FIN, Brian J. Skerry of Nat Geo, Dario Ayala of the Gazette
Photo edited by: BlueMenpachi

Squid eggs - Squid hatching - Cigarette butts

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Olowalu Testimony at the Maui Council Chambers; A Plea to the People of Maui

Yesterday (Nov. 27, 2012) at 200 South High Street Wailuku, Maui; I had a unique opportunity to present my testimony before the Maui County Council.

My presentation was extremely different compared to the other 54 testifiers who were there. I had actually created a rap! I wanted to grab the Council's attention; And with the feed back I received from other audience members, I'm hopeful that my words were heard.

(To watch a video I created with the lyrics I thought of, you can view it on my youtube channel or by *CLICKING HERE*)

Reduce, Reuse and Recycle! Step Two: REUSE

Continuing on from the 3 R’s post
These are my examples on how to perform them to help protect the environment.

The second R is Reuse:

1.)You can reuse plastic and glass bottles many times over.
Bottled water is the dumbest thing I have ever heard of. Water is available through your tap! The only thing you buy when you buy bottled water is… lower quality water and the plastic.

Pollution Awareness for Maui: Ocean Acidification and Poisonous Plastics

Earlier this morning in my marine biology class, our presentations for our semester projects were due. I chose to do my presentation on Pollution Awareness.
Basically, a lot of people really are NOT fully aware of how every single day they are polluting the Earth and Oceans in some way.
I started my presentation with Ocean Acidification. Ocean acidification is when there is too much CO2 being released into out atmosphere and when our atmosphere touches the ocean (yes, it literally touches the ocean) it mixes with the water and basically makes an acid.