Organisation of the first university Workshop in Morocco

The Faculty of Sciences of El Jadida, the El Jadida Diving Association (APJ), and the Royal Moroccan Federation of Diving and Underwater Activities recently organised the first university Workshop on the theme "Scuba diving: A tool for research in marine biology".This workshop, in which 75 young researchers (master's students, doctoral students...) participated, offered theoretical and practical lessons on scuba diving with a particular look at its various uses for scientific research in the field of underwater life exploration. The speakers thus addressed the fundamental notions of physical and biological oceanography, scuba diving between sport, leisure, and professionalism, the physical laws and the great constraints to the discovery of the underwater world, scuba diving as a tool for scientific research and protection of the marine environment.Practical thematic workshops allowed pa…