Week 2 day 2

 For today on our senior project we had gone to an oceans race event. Even though we aren’t studying sailing boats, the boats there are all doing an ocean research project. There we saw a boat that was studying micro plastics and the travel of them through the ocean. Even though they can’t necessarily stop and do some research they’re still doing all that they can to get the information that they need. The show was amazing, learning all about the research that they had done and how they were doing it. We ended the day off with some fishing where Cam was able to catch a fish called the North Atlantic Needlefish. Overall today was a great day that was beautiful and look forward to the next. 

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