Update on the 2.24 for FKCC Dive Program

The $2.4 Million congressional appropriation for Underwater Port Security, that Dr. Jill Landesberg-Boyle helped to secure for FKCC will enable the Jame E. Lockwood, Jr. School of Underwater Technologies and the Marie Science Department raise research to a new level.

Some of the funds will supply the equipment needed to conduct important research.   The equipment will include items, such as underwater side sonar technology and ground penetrating radar.

Those items will double their use as instructional equipment for a variety of other scientific projects, one of which will be a course Dr. Rice will develop in coral reef mapping systems.  However, the applications are limitless and include possibilities for training in underwater archeology, port security,  and other utilities.

The appropriation was the work of Jill Landesberg-Boyle, Patrick Rice, and Bill Chalfant, working diligently with their Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen who, on behalf of the college and the region.