Please help with my University project

[Jan Crane]

Hi everyone

Over the last week I have emailed over 20 clubs around the UK and asked them to help with a short survey on Diver and Seal Interactions in the UK.

So far, all the Scottish clubs contacted and all the Welsh clubs contacted have responded and I have mailed/emailed the questionnaire to them. THANKS SO MUCH! :D

But, sadly, not ONE English club has so far even acknowledged my email!

Come on England - you can do better than that! :eek:

If any divers in the UK, anywhere in the UK, would like to complete a short survey please contact me. I can email the survey in Word, Open Office and pdf format.

If you are UK club and wish to take part please contact me for a postal service - SAE included, it will cost you no more than a little bit of time. The survey itself should take no more than a few minutes to complete.

The results of the project will be online in January (no individuals will be named). No contact details will be passed to any third party and you can even remain totally annonymous on the questionnaire if you want to.

I am a first year UHI undergraduate studying BSc Natural and Environmental Science hoping to follow a largly marine sciences route. I am also going on my TRY DIVE next Friday.

So, please help. Being back at uni at the grand old age of 38 is hard enough on the grey matter already! :rolleyes:

[bythesea]

This is possibly because seal encounters are more common in Scotland and Wales than they are in England

[PeteM]

This is possibly because seal encounters are more common in Scotland and Wales than they are in England

Biggest place in the UK for diving with seals is the Farnes which is in England

[Luke K]

But, sadly, not ONE English club has so far even acknowledged my email!

Come on England - you can do better than that! :eek:



As far as i'm aware there was no contact via us, but as others have said England is not the best place for loads of seal dives, well certainly not down south anyway.

Good Luck with the project.

[PeteM]

England is not the best place for loads of seal dives, well certainly not down south anyway.

Lundy - http://www.chelmsforddiveclub.co.uk/lundy9906.htm

[Jan Crane]

Non encounters are as valid to the project as encounters.

By marking on my map where dives take place and then marking where seal encounters take place, and then comparing these to known seal colonies, it will be possible to see

a. if some areas are completely devoid of encounters but have a seal population
b. don't have encounters because there is no population
c. where seals may be moving to/through and is so far unrecorded
d. enables me to see what the changes of an encounter are as a mathematical probability

I wanted to map the water around the whole of the British Isles, which is why I have tried to contact a range of clubs around the whole of the UK coast - giving that coastal based clubs are likely to dive their local patch.

[Jan Crane]

Thanks to everyone who has responded so far.

If you would like to take part please pm me with your email

Jan

[Giomanach]

pm sent

[Craig]

Jan,

I am not aware that our club has been contacted. However, we are more than happy to take part in your survey. I have pm'd you an email address.

Regards,

Craig.

[Jan Crane]

Just to let everyone know that the survey has now ended. Uni deadlines prevail I'm affraid.:rolleyes:

Thanks to everyone who pm'd me, emailed me and took part.

Thanks to everyone who got in contact after the project finished too - sorry, should have put an end date on this forum thing. But thank you all so much for trying to help.

The results will be posted in January on my blog online for anyone wishing to have a look.

The address to keep an eye on is:

www.jancrane.wordpress.com

Again, thanks to everyone.

[Sam2000]

I've encountered a lot of seals in Norfolk and Cornwall, they aren't hard to spot.

[Edward]

Hi everyone

Over the last week I have emailed over 20 clubs around the UK and asked them to help with a short survey on Diver and Seal Interactions in the UK.

So far, all the Scottish clubs contacted and all the Welsh clubs contacted have responded and I have mailed/emailed the questionnaire to them. THANKS SO MUCH! :D

But, sadly, not ONE English club has so far even acknowledged my email!

Come on England - you can do better than that! :eek:



If I was your research supervisor I would be asking where you got the club contact information from in the first place, because you could skew the figures by the clubs you contacted. You've contacted 20 out of a full population of, What?

There are BSAC, SAA, SSAC Branches and PADI Chapters (I think the name is) plus some independents, all told at least 1,500 clubs.

Regards

Edward

PS. I've not seen your request