Harrison Ainsworth '12

Alas, the time has come for the end. After an amazing week at the BVI we're goijg to go home. Today was a nice change of pace; we did some community service for Visar. I was in charge of washing various garments and other things that simply needed to be cleaned. As much as I loved scuba diving it...

Today started unlike any other day, with sideways rain. It set a somewhat somber mood; we had to close the shutters to keep the rain out. It's not that I dislike the rain, but the images that the rain invokes are generally negative, stifling my otherwise cheery disposition. I was also bummed that I had finished my book the...

Today we started early with a dive in the morning. We went to see the Rhone, a sunken boat, which while incredible in of itself was truly amazing because of the wildlife. No fishing is allowed to fish populations are very healthy and I saw some big parrotfish, and snapper. I found it interesting to see the wreck and...

Today was to say the least the best so far. Started out with some lemon tea with honey while chilling out in the cool office reading my novel. We then went to breakfast and learned about Coral Awareness. We then set off to go practice our transect lines and then had lunch. After lunch, we went snorkeling. I used...

Today started quite well. I found time before 8:30 to read my awesome book. It turns out that the methane mentioned earlier that caused the continental shelf collapse was released into the atmosphere accelerating global climate change. And speaking of the Storegga slide it was a big contributer in the previous big climate change back in the Paleocene leading...

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...

Today we did quite a bit, starting with finishing out dissection of the Dogfish. I thought it was cool to feel the Ampullae of Lorenzini on the shark's rostrum. That didn't take too long because we were nearly done from the day before. So nothing new to report there. Then we went over the articles. The first one was about...

Today we went over two articles to start. The first one was about the mimic octopus which they found out through DNA sequencing that the mimic octopus' mimicry began with simple colouration change. They elaborated on the extent of the octopus' mimicry which was incredible. I've never really been into octopi but this made me consider looking into them....

Today we firstly did the articles. The first article was about predation on the coral by parrotfish. This was another case of the article, while producing results, wouldn't contribute to the solving of the problem itself that is the disappearance of coral. The second article was interesting, the "bio-control" of lionfish via grouper. I had no previous knowledge of...