Fresno students attended NASA-based scuba camp

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Over 200 students from Fresno Unified got to acquisition a NASA-based scuba campy past month.

According to the California Suba Center, 3 summertime camps were conducted simultaneously implicit 3 weeks successful July. The campy went from July 8 to July 26. Kids were capable to blast disconnected into 1 of 3 summertime camps: Introduction to Dive into Space, Dive into Space, and Space Leadership.

The campy was based connected the NASA Neutral Buoyancy Lab, which NASA describes as 1 of the world’s largest indoor pools which tin enactment aggregate large-scale operations utilizing some underwater and topside assets astatine the aforesaid time.

Organizers accidental the students did not cognize each different astatine archetypal arsenic they were from each implicit the schoolhouse district, but rapidly learned however to enactment arsenic a team. On the last time of camp, students were expected to implicit underwater challenges moving unneurotic portion underwater.

Organizers accidental the camps taught squad building, connection skills, scuba diving schoolroom sessions, and accomplishment challenges, and got to acquisition scuba diving successful the excavation implicit 5 days.

Organizers accidental that the campy offered the accidental to 444 Fresno Unified students, and retired of those openings 292 students attended the camps. Of those who attended and met the requirements, 67 students began their travel to go afloat certified scuba divers, according to organizers.