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Monday 7 October 2013

Independent research

   Underwater Archaeologist
purpose: the  purpose of my report is to show my audience about interesting things about  underwater archaeology.
To guide my research I asked Questions
What is an underwater archaeologist?
why are so they important?
What do they mostly study about?
What do they do underwater?
What is baleen made out of?
How far can divers go underwater before the pressure crushes them?
what kind of people are involved in underwater archaeology?
what kind of schooling is required for underwater archaeology?
what does a underwater archaeology do?
Notes:
Dark ghost shark: cuvier Island coromandel -Depth 329 to 366m.
Black dragon fish: challenger plateau Depth 900m.
Vent worms: Most of the world’s known hydrothermal vents are covered in vent worms.
A top kermadec predator: Galapagos shark. Found in west of Napier Island, Kermadec Islands Depth 55 to 80m.
Angler fish: The baby fish is attach beneath the female fish (mum fish).
Answer to the questions:
1) Underwater archaeology is simply done underwater. Shipwrecks are the most common site studied.
2) Archaeology is the closest thing we have to a time machine. Its is the only way we can know the unrecorded, and sometimes even the recorded, past. History may be written by the victorious, but archaeology is the most common people.
3) shipwrecks.
4) They look for stuff from the past and stuff that we haven’t seen before but mostly they will find shipwrecks.
5) Baleen is made out of keratin. The same stuff you finger nails are made out of.
6) Water won’t crush you at any depth if you are able to fill your body (lungs, middle ear) with compressed air at the same pressure as the water.
7) marine biology.
8) in order to be an underwater archaeologist you would need a minimum of an undergraduate degree in a suitable subject and a diving certificate.   
9) plenty. to discover the buried history. they uncover history.






Last Cultural Festival




Best Night Ever!
Have you ever felt nervous and proud of yourself at same time? Well the kapa haka group and  I did.
Last Night was a very astonishing night for us and St Patricks school. We were all ready to perform in front of the school and parents. But  first The kapa haka group hold hands and had a little prayer of guidance in the corridor. When we  were walking up to the hall we were cold because it was spitting and the boys had no shirts on.

Once we got the hall Mrs Bullot was doing the introduction and the and the kapa haka group opened up the ceremony. When Mrs Dines told me to lead in the kapa haka group to the stage I was nervous and proud because I was the first one on stage.

When Naanise sang the beginning of the national anthem, the ‘Karanga’, it was like awesome because it takes real guts to do that. When the crowd cheered when we finish singing I felt not shy anymore the most best routine was the haka  we were slapping ourselves and stomping our feet it was a blast crowd were cheering the maori group having a great time and the year 8  and we were  enjoying ourselves because its our last time doing this. After the haka all the boys were in pain but  it felt good.

After we got changed for the Tongan group we were ready to go on to the stage.