Sight! I called out as the white of the Secchi disk, an instrument used to measure turbidity, peeked through the green depths. After marking where the rope just broke the surface of the blue-green, we slowly pulled the disc out of the frigid Atlantic water. It was the fourth day of a marine biology program at the Shoals Marine Laboratory off the coast of Maine. There, along with twelve other high school students, we learned about a plethora of topics, ranging from the mechanics of oceanic tides to the anatomical differences between a shark and a mackerel. Almost part every day of the first week was spent on a small boat, performing a variety of tasks in the field. We took water samples from various depths using a niskin bottle, caught plankton