Reef Chronicler · Learn
Learn it. For free. Whether or not you ever take the course.
The course's student handbook in full — 18 lessons, about 27 minutes of reading. No account, no sign-up, nothing to buy to read it.
This course is a PADI-approved offering.
Reef Chronicler's documents are at version 1.0. These lessons are generated from the Student Handbook and will be regenerated if the
documents change.
Unlike the other courses here, these lessons have no practice slates yet. The recording forms exist in the course documents but are not wired into these pages. Each lesson does end with a three-question check — not a test, just a way to see that the lesson landed. The software side of the topside work — the frame check in Fiji, point intercept in CoralNet or by hand — is on the how-to pages, not in the lessons.
Unlike the other courses here, these lessons have no practice slates yet. The recording forms exist in the course documents but are not wired into these pages. Each lesson does end with a three-question check — not a test, just a way to see that the lesson landed. The software side of the topside work — the frame check in Fiji, point intercept in CoralNet or by hand — is on the how-to pages, not in the lessons.
Anyone can learn this. Only an instructor can certify you. Everything here is open — read
it because you are curious about how a reef gets photographed so it can be measured, or because
you want to run the method yourself. Nothing on this page is graded, recorded, or sent anywhere.
What a certification card attests is not that someone read something. It is that an instructor watched them do the work in water and judged them competent. That part cannot happen on a website — the reading is free, the card is not.
What a certification card attests is not that someone read something. It is that an instructor watched them do the work in water and judged them competent. That part cannot happen on a website — the reading is free, the card is not.
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- 01 What This Course Is 2 min
- 02 The Idea You Should Carry Out of Here 3 min
- 03 What You Will Produce 1 min
- 04 The references in the frame 1 min
- 05 No Frame Is Measured in the Water 1 min
- 06 You will not know if a frame is good until later 1 min
- 07 The frame check 1 min
- 08 Scoring the Frame 3 min
- 09 The Sampling Error, and the Floor 3 min
- 10 Condition Lives Somewhere Else 1 min
- 11 Dive 1 — Establish 1 min
- 12 Dive 2 — Found 1 min
- 13 Dive 3 — Return 2 min
- 14 If the Station Was Someone Else's 1 min
- 15 The Return Visit 2 min
- 16 Reporting Rules That Are Easiest to Break 1 min
- 17 Safety 1 min
- 18 What You Leave With 1 min
Interested in the course itself? Questions are welcome, and the courses
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Generated from the Reef Chronicler Student Handbook, version 1.0. The course documents are the authority; if these pages and they ever disagree, the documents are right.