• Question: What science careers involve marine life and scuba diving?

    Asked by mushi to Adam, Joanna, Louise S, Louise W, Marcus on 14 Nov 2012.
    • Photo: Louise Walkin

      Louise Walkin answered on 14 Nov 2012:

      Hello!! My cousin is actually a marine biologist. She lives in Ireland, near the coast and gets to do work with lots of different types of fish and water plants. She has been to work all over the world. She went to America and got to do some work with doplhins as part of some work experience. I was very jealous! I don’t think she does much scuba diving – but you can always do that as one of your hobbies instead. Are you interested in marine biology then?

    • Photo: Adam Paige

      Adam Paige answered on 14 Nov 2012:

      marine biologists, environmental scientists and conservationists, oceanologists.

      maybe geologists as well if they are interested in the geology of the sea bed.

    • Photo: Joanna Giles

      Joanna Giles answered on 14 Nov 2012:

      Marine life and scuba diving is so interesting! Did you know that only 5% of the ocean bed has been studied? And every time scientists go to the ocean floor they discover new life? It’s really fascinating!

      We actually know more about space than we do about the deep ocean, so there is definitely lots to discover!

      If you keep up your sciences (especially biology) perhaps one day you will get to go in one of the super submarines and discover something new!

      You can do engineering to try to develop these amazing submarines that are capable of going to the depths of the ocean, or you could do marine biology to study all this new life at the bottom of the sea.

      Perhaps in University you might want to study marine biology or something more broad like physiology to learn about how organisms work. Broader subjects like this might allow you to think of careers that you had never even thought about 🙂

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