Squiddy

This is an old drawing that I made back in freshman year (in intro geology class, I believe). I think my squid drawing abilities are far better than my platypus drawing abilities.


The squid-with-big-gaping-hole-in-mantle is something that I notice everywhere, but when I re-discovered my old cartoon I decided to see how prevalent it actually is. So I ran a quick search for "squid" on Google Images, filtered by "clipart" to see. I excluded photographs and things that were clearly unrelated (e.g. things with the word 'squid' but no actual squid, squid-style multiplugs, people dressed as squids, etc) and put things that were labeled 'squid' but clearly not (e.g. octopuses, jellyfish, cthulhu) under the "Not a squid" category. This survey covers ~20 pages of Google Image results.

Not that research isn't fun...

One more from the dive log:

My life in e-mails

Evidently being a TA consumes your inbox, if not your life.

Air consumption

These were early attempts to calculate and compare my underwater air consumption rates from Fall 2009 to Summer 2010. I compared them by general region (New England, Moorea, Friday Harbor) and by water temperature (Cold: ≤18ºC, Warm: ≥27ºC). Outliers are circled and I traced them back to the actual logged dives, where they were generally associated with strong current or 'buddy issues'.


Of course, after I did this I found that people generally standardise air consumption for depth to give a 'surface air consumption (SAC) rate.' So I recalculated and replotted and here's my final air consumption graphed by region, complete with quartiles. You can see that it's a distribution with a long upper tail.


My dive log is a ridiculously tempting source of things to graph because I log all my dive information anyway. I'm sure some of the fancypants dive computers and software can do some of this for you, but I bet they don't have fun doing it and they they can't give you r-squares and regression coefficients!! (Not that those can tell you that much for dive data anyway)

Diving Winter/Spring 2010

Graphing 3 Seas dives over time (with classes and related events marked).