20/1/2007---Beach Survey and Stranding Case Practice, By Yee
Beach Survey and Stranding Case Practice
The second practical session and also it is the last day for the course.
We went to Sandspit beach to have the practical.
First we had the stranding case practice. As there were no real dolphins/whales stranded, one of the team members laid on the sand and pretended to be the stranding dolphin.
We learnt the ways to approach the stranded dolphins, to have a basic body check and measurement, first-aid treatment for the dolphin and the way to release the dolphin back to the ocean. (But we did not ‘release’ the team member into the sea!)
The second part we learn the way to conduct the beach survey. Line transect method was used. Several people formed a line on the beach vertically with equal distance between each other, and they walked along the beach together to se if there were any marine mammal body parts (Eg, teeth or bones), or rubbish on the beach. The recorder will record all the things they can find as well as the GPS location of these objects. In the real beach survey the team found skulls of dolphins, and stranded Bryde's whale in one of their beach surveys. However, we did not find anything except rubbish in this beach survey.
After all these practice we had our lunch and when we want to leave, some classmates suddenly saw a dead finless porpoise calf that brought up by waves to the beach. After the assessment it is a male finless porpoise which umbilical was seen visible. We then watched the demonstration on how to obtain skin and blubber layer sample of the stranded dead marine mammals. After obtaining samples, the finless porpoise was buried and hope that they can be able to obtain the skeleton of it after sometime.
We learnt a lot in this practical and this is also a good ending for this course.
Get ready for the field trip next week!
The second practical session and also it is the last day for the course.
We went to Sandspit beach to have the practical.
First we had the stranding case practice. As there were no real dolphins/whales stranded, one of the team members laid on the sand and pretended to be the stranding dolphin.
We learnt the ways to approach the stranded dolphins, to have a basic body check and measurement, first-aid treatment for the dolphin and the way to release the dolphin back to the ocean. (But we did not ‘release’ the team member into the sea!)
The second part we learn the way to conduct the beach survey. Line transect method was used. Several people formed a line on the beach vertically with equal distance between each other, and they walked along the beach together to se if there were any marine mammal body parts (Eg, teeth or bones), or rubbish on the beach. The recorder will record all the things they can find as well as the GPS location of these objects. In the real beach survey the team found skulls of dolphins, and stranded Bryde's whale in one of their beach surveys. However, we did not find anything except rubbish in this beach survey.
After all these practice we had our lunch and when we want to leave, some classmates suddenly saw a dead finless porpoise calf that brought up by waves to the beach. After the assessment it is a male finless porpoise which umbilical was seen visible. We then watched the demonstration on how to obtain skin and blubber layer sample of the stranded dead marine mammals. After obtaining samples, the finless porpoise was buried and hope that they can be able to obtain the skeleton of it after sometime.
We learnt a lot in this practical and this is also a good ending for this course.
Get ready for the field trip next week!
This is the 'dolphin' we have to save
Helping the 'dolphin'
Working on beach survey
Working on the stranded finless poropise
Camel that walk along the beach that we were working
posted by The Karachi Team--Yee and Noodle at
12:24 PM
1 Comments:
我最近經常到巴基斯坦. 與巴籍人仕接觸越多, 越不喜歡這個國度.
譬如男女極不平等, 偽善, 不守承諾...
多方面與我大中華民族雷同, 而且更有過之.
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