can't survey ocean wildlife because I'm a mermaid?

Survey Ocean Floor works, but you don't get that until level 8 of the career. I did manage to get it completed once after surveying a bunch of stuff on the island, but I have no idea what actually made it work, unfortunately.

What I did before she could survey the Ocean Floor, was send her to work for like a day , make sure to gather samples even if you do not need them because if you do not sell them for money (once you have analyzed it) it turns into work performance, and that helped me a ton to get thru those parts before she could do the Survey Ocean Floor.

I regret having my mermaid join the conservation career. I just send her to work every day now since she can't do the tasks. :(

Survey ocean floor works for my mermaid marine biologist

"zap608;c-17149313" wrote:
Its not working for me at all and my sim is just a human female. She was punished by having her money cut for not completing the task despite doing the task 3 times and sending in data. It's not a mod that is needed its a fix I think.

I had the same problem, also the snorkel one did not activate. I knew from a previous game that it does not work for mermaids, so this time I kept my starter sim a human and it still did not work, she also got the message her boss is unhappy and she made 0 simoleons, but I just could not complete snorkel and survey on that day.

"Starfree;c-17126770" wrote:

"LaziMinx;d-961317" wrote:
so uh, I need to survey ocean wildlife for my career (level 7 marine biologist) and I can't because it says this:

https://imgur.com/a/Gul9MX1

So, how am I supposed to do my daily task? I don't really want to turn her back into human so can somebody please help me?

@LaziMinx, if you have the UI Cheats mod you can just click on that task & it will complete. Had to do this yesterday because of a self-inflicted problem.

I checked you cant use this on daily tasks

"Sindocat;c-17201036" wrote:
My understanding is this glitch was fixed in the August patch.

This^^

> @LaziMinx said:
> so uh, I need to survey ocean wildlife for my career (level 7 marine biologist) and I can't because it says this:
>
> https://imgur.com/a/Gul9MX1
>
> So, how am I supposed to do my daily task? I don't really want to turn her back into human so can somebody please help me?

I was able to do it while on the canoe/boat. I got on it, then clicked the buoy to survey ocean. It took a bit but i got it. It also solved my diving for treasure (in odd jobs) dilemma. Hope it works for you and others.I almost gave up his job an redid him.