So we’re finally in the BVI. Finally. We woke up and chilled out to start, got farther in my book, ust waiting until 8. Then we waited for the bus to go eat breakfast and get briefed. I was fairly tired but not from lack of sleep but more from general exhaustion. We then met with the instructors and got an overview of the week. We then waited until lunch; I jumped into the pool. We then went to go to our boat to start scuba diving. After waiting to get to the site, and getting briefed again we got into the water. I didn’t have a wetsuit on because the water was nice and warm. Besides my infintely obnoxious goggles the dive was great. We saw so many baby conches, a hermit crab, and various other little fish. We also worked on our skills; flooding the mask was so painful because of the salt water. But then we just went home to await dinner. I found out today that there are mahi mahi as well as some tuna and owahu(?). It would be great to catch one of those fish. Andrew mentioned how marlin are really only found on the continental shelf which reminds me of my book, the swarm, in which the continental collapses because the methane hydrates holding the shelf together were dissociated by worms that burrowed into the methane ‘ice’ released anaerobic bacteria that fed on the methane (twas the european continental shelf that collapsed, essentially mimicking the infamous Storegga slide). Today was a lot of recapping what we’ve learned so new stuff will appear tomorrow most likely.
