2015 Week 2

Day 4: Today, we split from the marine 2 students and went to Savannah beach while they enjoyed special time at Neckar Island, where we will go next year. We first collected invertebrates like, Cabbage Worms, Fire Worms, Sea Urchins, and Crabs. We got to play with them in a touch tank that we set up. We then released them...

Today we were split from the Marine 2 group. While they went off to a place called Necker Island. The rest of us stayed behind to study invertebrates and (try) to tag some turtles. First, we went snorkeling on a beach to catch and study some invertebrates. We caught a fire worm, a centipede-like creature that shot stinging needles,...

On our fifth day of the trip we went and did our project dives and presented the projects today. For the first dive of the day we went to West Dog reef. This was used as our "healthy reef" for our project. The reef there was beautiful, it had tons of parrotfish and grouper. For our project we set...

Today we had two dives, the last two we would be doing on the trip. The first was to help Casey clean algae from some a coral nursery that had been set up. The nursery was made up of "trees", PVC pipe constructs that held pieces of growing coral on strings. If we allowed the algae to grow...

Today the diving was equally as incredible as our first day, as we encountered an abundance of marine life and even ran into new creatures that we previously only imagined. Our first stop was further out than Saturday's excursion, bringing us all the way out to Ginger Island, where we descended at a location known as the ginger steps....

So far Day 3 has been the most exciting day for me. We started off the day by going to the RMS Rhone, a ship that sunk in 1867. The story behind this ship sinking is really interesting. The RMS Rhone, unlike many of England's ships, was steamship and was one of the best in the royal fleet. While...

Since I forgot to talk about last night I'm going to start off talking about last night. We had dinner on the beach. Jeff cooked up some great hamburgers to consume while we look at the sunset and play frisbee on the beach. Then to finish off the night, Mr. Von told us some of his real life experience...

Today we got to sleep in a bit but it was also our cabins day to prepare breakfast. After Name cooked us some pancakes to tide us over, we got all set up for breakfast. After everyone had their cereal and drank their Whispers Of Summer juice we got on the taxi were Marine 1 headed to Savannah beach...

Breakfast was supposed to be hosted by my cabin this morning, key word "supposed". Two of the 3 of my cabin-mates had gotten sick the night before, leaving Doc and Mr. Von with the decision to move breakfast from our cabin to theirs to prevent anybody else from getting sick. In the end, both got well and nobody else...