Let Blackbeard's become your floating field station! Collect your data on board a sailboat whose itinerary is specialized to help you reach as many locations and habitats as your project requires. By chartering a liveaboard for your marine science research project, you avoid the costs of boarding at a field station and paying for daily boat trips, when what your project really requires is logging as much time on the ocean as possible. Conduct research on coral reefs, ichthyology, benthic marine habitats, mangrove population, larger marine mammals, and elasmobranches, without having to return to shore every night. Liveaboards are perfect for projects requiring data collection from multiple sites, studying nocturnal aquatic species, and projects that require multiple dives during the day and night! Blackbeard's boats can accommodate up to twenty two people, so the entire research team can take part in raw data collection.

Marine biologists, geologists, and conservation specialists have all made Blackbeard's their floating laboratory for projects requiring travel on the water and sampling in locations that are difficult to reach from shore. To view some of the recent research projects conducted from Blackbeard's boats, please view these websites:

Dr. Peter Mumby, a marine biologist from the University of Exter in the United Kingdom, has used Blackbeard's to run several projects on Parrotfish feeding on Bahamian coral reefs and reef modeling. Learn about his projects at projects.exeter.ac.uk

Casey Saenger, a current doctoral student studying at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in Massachusetts, is a geologist studying the geology of the tropics, and the effects of climate change on these regions' marine ecosystems. He recently conducted a research project to collect coral cores in the Bahamas on board a Blackbeard's sailboat. To see pictures of Mr. Saenger's research in the Bahamas and learn about his current projects, please visit www.whoi.edu