Today's Sports

Threat Fish Project.

As an important part and learning exercise for our underwater crime scene investigation students, they had to pick and devise a semester project.

In a previous column, Gregg Stanton alluded to the fact that it was imperative for the students to finish the project, even if unsuccessful in the stated objective. This provided a sharp contrast to the theoretical classroom thinking. Just as in real life, it is pragmatic problems that inhibit clever ideas, and simpler very often is better.

Last week was absolutely beautiful during the week and then when the weekend got here everything changed.

The winds wind from calm to howling on Saturday and Sunday. They were finally able to fish the Kevin’s Red/Trout Shootout despite the wind and some nice fish were caught and big bucks won by some good fishermen.

The team of J&D placed first with a 7.6-pound red and a 5.2-pound trout. For their efforts they won $3,000 and another $1,000 because they had the biggest red and biggest trout of the tournament. T

Underwater photography,

The Diving Scientist often documents his/her experiment or data using an underwater camera. One of our earliest training modules in the Applications of Diving To Research class was to provide the technology and techniques to capture an image underwater.

But first came lectures on the physics behind light penetrating water, where the sun reflects off the surface bringing long dusk and dawn periods underwater.

Gil Damon, 15, of Shell Point went on an inshore Grouper fishing Saturday with Major Alan Lamarche and Bruce DeGrove of River Plantation Estates. Gil served as First Mate and he was the only one in the boat who caught fish. Here, Gil shows off a “double” with a fat Sea Bass and a Key West Grunt on the same rig. Gil and his family had fried fish fillets that night and Alan and Bruce had hot dogs. Alan’s excuse was that “Grouper don’t feed in shallow water on the Full Moon except at night and we were fishing during the day.”