FAU High students to compete at national SeaPerch competition

The National SeaPerch competition consists of an underwater obstacle course where students are given 15 minutes to navigate through 5 hoola-hoop sized rings, surface, then dive and navigate their way back to the start/finish line. Our best driver can do this in 1 minute flat!!! The other underwater challenge at the National SeaPerch competition involves retrieving rope rings from a rack that is 15 feet away and depositing the rings in one of two milk-crates. Half of the rings on the rack are at 3 ft deep, the rest are at 7 ft deep. The milk-crates are at 3 ft deep and 7 ft deep. The milk-crate at 7 ft deep has a cover on it to reduce the size of the opening to make it more challenging. Our best driver can get a perfect score (all rings in the bottom crate) in under the 15 minutes allowed for the course! Unfortunately, during this weekend’s event, the weather played a pretty big factor as the pool was outdoors. We didn’t get a good time on the obstacle course or a high score on the ring challenge because the wind was making visibility nearly zero (thus the 3rd place finish). Later in the day, the wind subsided giving some teams a distinct advantage. The national competition will be indoors, so the weather will not hinder our students from doing their best in ALL events.

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