A Very Special Visitor (Friday)

 Technology is great when it works.  When it doesn't….not so great.  But with some perseverance, I was able to get these photos uploaded.  And it's a good thing, because I'm so excited to share our visit with one of our student's moms from last Friday.

Carol came in and spent an hour with us telling us all about her job as a marine structural engineer.  She showed us a picture of the Vancouver harbor and we talked about all the things we saw in the picture.  She pointed out some of the projects that she has been involved in (extending Canada Place and planning for the building of the new Convention Centre!)

We all got to participate in a "float/sink" experiment.  Each student was given an object and was asked to predict whether the object would float or sink in water.  Then each student was able to test his/her prediction.  Here are photos of each of us taking our turn….

Then Carol taught us all about Scuba diving and brought in all of her gear to show us how it all works. We learned about the air tank.

and the buoyancy compensation devise

and how the mouth piece works

we learned about the gauges 

we learned how to release the air

we saw what equipment we need for the other parts of our bodies….gloves and a hood

mask and snorkle

fins

and the rest of the suit

Carol dressed a student up in her suit (he has a little more growing to do!)

We had such  great time learning all about the ocean and ways to explore it.  We also learned all about a job that we may not have known much about before (and by "we" I mean "me"!)  It was all so interesting!  We'd like to send a HUGE thank you to Carol for sharing her expertise with us.