The morning started off with an alarm on my iPhone of Apple’s “night owl” ringtone at 7:20. Immediately afterwards, I hopped out of my bed and got dressed for diving and some snorkeling. Today, another house was in charge of breakfast, so we set out for their casa. After breakfast, we hopped on a ride with Glen to the harbor. Upon arriving, we got all the equipment and hopped onboard. We then took a boat ride over to the fist dive side, a wreck! We learned that the wreck was a purposely sunken ship named the Kodiac Queen. The kodiac queen was detailed to have been at Pearl Harbor during the Japanese surprise attack and also it was explained to have been one of the few ships left standing after the chaos. On the wreck dive, I was able to see the about forty yard ship! At its front deck, a man made “kraken,” which looks like an octopus in my opinion, was mounted on. The entire ship was covered in plant growth with many fish making it their new home. After seeing about a third of the ship, my dive was cut short because I was running very low on air. Perhaps because of my excitement, I managed to breathe down my air like it was water. Nonetheless, I surfaced and waited for the other guys. After everyone boarded, we went to our next dive site which was the coral nursery. Because I was having trouble clearing my ears, I just snorkeled with the other few around the reef existing nearby. At the reef, there was a massive field of jellyfish in which I wrote myself a painful invitation to. This was the first time I had ever been stung by a jellyfish, and it was quite unpleasant. After getting out of that minefield of stinging, I went out a little bit and found around five massive tarpon feeding on the fish nearby! Later, we all boarded and went to have lunch in a channel between two islands. During this time, the whole lot went jumping off the second floor of the boat into the water. This jumping session lasted until basically everyone had had their fill. We then went snorkeling through the mangroves! Before, however, we learned that the mangroves are exceptional organisms that are able to survive with their roots in salt water! The mangroves are able to do this because they have a filter system that allows them to take filter out the salt. On the snorkel, I saw a baby shark towards the end and some baby barracuda waiting adjacent to the roots of the mangroves for fish to pop out. After the snorkel, we got back on the boat and went to the harbor. We cleaned up all the gear and went back to shower. After resting up, we went to our meeting spotfor a lasagna dinner. After dinner, we finished our project up for our presentation tomorrow. Tomorrow, I hope that our presentation goes excellent and that our service really makes an impact.
