2019

We had an awesome first day on the island. Today we had our first snorkel off of the pier by the resort. One of the first things that I noticed about the reef was that it is different from what I am used to seeing in Hawaii. There are mostly small caribbean sea fans with some brain coral and star...

What a way to end off the trip: two incredible dives, a long, laugh filled conversation with my piers, a delicious dinner, an amazing prayer service, and a free fruit punch to finish off the night. I'm sad that it has to come to an end, but like everything, it does, and I don't think it could have ended...

After a buffet style breakfast in the morning, we got right on our way to doing our first tank dive of the trip. We all gathered up near the dive shop and prepped for our dive discussing the logistics of the boat as well as the do's and don't's. We grabbed our gear, boarded the boat, and were on...

Today was a great final day. The water was too choppy to dock the boat on our pier, so we had to take vans to another port nearby. The boat ride only ended up being about 30 seconds to our dive site. Trinity CavesThis was our first dive site of the morning. It...

Our final day of diving began differently as we had to take a short bus ride to the boat because of the high swells present at the dock at the resort. Once we boarded the boat we went to our first dive site which consisted of several top open tunnels. Early on in the dive we saw a very...

I started my morning today a little bit earlier than normal; this morning began at 4 am when I arrived at love field airport. I got on a 6 am flight to Fort Lauderdale, Florida where we then boarded a connecting flight to the Grand Cayman Islands. Today, after we got here, we went snorkeling. The current was extremely...

After an early wake-up and flight from Dallas Love Field, we made it to Fort Lauderdale, Florida; then to George Town, Grand Cayman; and finally to our dive resort known as Cobalt Coast. Soon after, our group hit the ground running with a quick snorkel right off the dock of the hotel less than a minute's walk from our...

I woke up this morning with sadness that our trip would be over soon. Our final two dives were today, finishing the trip with 13 new dives in my logbook. All of the dives that we have gotten to do this week have been incredible, and the two we did today were no exception. We got into a van...

The roaring waves crash against the shore, filling the air with an inescapable salty odor. I took one final breath of fresh air, gather my crimson red fins at my side, and plunge into the oceans ice cold embrace. The day began with the loud beeping of my alarm at exactly 2:50 A.M. As a resident of a subarb far...