Taking the plunge into Marine Science
Dr Anjani Ganase learns to dive, and falls into the splendour of life in the ocean. This is the third instalment of the series in which she recounts her journey to becoming a coral reef ecologist. All photos courtesy Anjani Ganase I decided that I needed to learn to scuba dive when I went to university. I signed up for an undergraduate degree in Marine Biology but I had no idea what the marine world looked like. Like most freshmen, I expected that being a marine biologist meant working with dolphins, whales and turtles or any megafauna. But an unseen world was being revealed through courses in microbiology, chemistry, oceanography and invertebrate zoology. The ocean systems are built on the microbes that regulate ocean food, and they drift on currents that regulate the climate. It was about time that I saw what the ocean looked like. During my summer vacation, I signed up to for an open water certificate in Trinidad. The lessons started in a classro...