Hi, I am Sofia, one of the most important things in this trip was that we had to learn about the reefs. Sue Brown was the marine biologist on board, who was going to be teaching us about how to perform the Reef Check and the importance of them.

The first thing had she did was to explain the procedure of the Reef Check. The first thing you do is to reach down 100m around the floor after we had laid down the measuring tape, we each did our parts. My part was to check every two meters and to describe what I saw. Sometimes I saw sand, others dead reef, live reef or rocks. I notice that when it was dead reef, there were no colours and when the reef was alive, there were colours range, green etc… Sometimes there were plants called algae and others there was a black thing called sponge. It was interesting and nice to see all the things down there. I felt really proud of myself when I was able to recognise sponge, algae and dead from alive reef. Now I feel really thankful to Sue because now I know more things about sea and I cannot wait for the next Reef Check!