Kent Denver School Goliath Grouper Research Project
The Goliath Grouper OceanCam is back online after the Florida Department of Transportation finished their bridge maintenance project.
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One of OPT’s OceanCam is positioned facing northwest, about 12 feet apart, between the northbound and southbound lanes of the Bahia Honda Bridge. The best times for viewing are at slack high tide or anytime on the flood tide. The above-water cameras are in two positions, one viewing the equipment and one in the electronics enclosure. The enclosure camera allows us to monitor solar, wind and battery operations.
The Goliath Grouper Project was teens4oceans first “Whale Project”, a venture chartered by Kent Denver School in Denver, Colorado. Headed up by science teacher Trevor Mendelow and a group of ninth grade students, the project aimed to install live video cameras in the Florida Keys with underwater listening devices and lights. Schools will have the opportunity to view the two cameras live on the web, and can join the Kent Denver community in their research efforts. Schools that join the project can be given control of the cameras, on a limited basis, and can access archive high resolution footage for study purposes.
When using Flip4Mac (Quicktime plug-in), if you would like to have better capability for enlargement of the window, control-click on the window and select options. You can select for streaming video to open automatically, and select for the Quicktime application.
For more information about the Kent Denver School Goliath Grouper Research and the teens4oceans Project visit: teens4oceans.org
Now you too can be an underwater videographer!
