George and Mona have been donning the sunglasses and welly boots and getting stuck into a variety of hands-on conservation management tasks on our coast.

Time, during the Marine Futures internship, appears to slip away as our interns spend it stepping from one world into another.

The life of the Marine Futures Interns is varied. One day they're in living it up in London, the next they're putting on waders and heading out onto the saltmarshes of the Lincolnshire…

Our Marine Futures Interns always get thrown in at the deep end. Read on to find out whether this year's intake sank or swam through the first couple of weeks of their internship