The 23rd day of July is the first full day that I was in the BVI, I woke up in a twin size bed that is placed in a room that has no AC. I walked with the Mangoes to the teachers cabin to have breakfast, after eating we got to the boats and set up the supplies to dive. We first went to the Bronco Billy dive cite, the Marine 1 students on the Sea Dragon boat went to the sand bottom and practiced some skills. Next we swam around, we saw fire coral, bleach coral, algae growing on coral, 4 eyed butterfly fish, bandit butterfly, shrimp, and sea urchin. After we came back in from the first dive and rode to the second dive cite which was called the Chimney, but while we were waiting to decompress the people on the Sea Dragon jumped from the second story into the water for about 30 minutes. When we started to get in the water for the second dive and descending Matthew could not equalize so the rest of the Mangoes went on the second dive, we saw a bearracuda, moray eel, dog snapper, nurse shark, and an octopus. The chimney part of the dive cite was a small break in rocks that only one diver could go through at a time, and right before the chimney part there was a cave room thing that was a school of tiny blue fish that were being chased by bigger fish. After the second dive was over we went to the docks once again and washed our supplies and had sandwiches for lunch that we made unique according to what we desired. We were transported back to our cabins after we finished lunch and relaxed for about two hours until we went to the comminsary which has wifi and chairs to sit around. Then Zoltan came and talk with the Mangoes about our research project and he thought it was a good research problem, after 20 minutes of explaining it to him we talked to him about random things nothing specific. Then we went to Mass at a place with an amazing view, took pictures and then went back to eat at the comminsary.
-Tyler Ochs
