Kells Koch '13

Today we woke like normal except we didn't take our scuba stuff because we had community service. We left to help visar or virgin island search and rescue. We cleaned their boat and the boat shed. We also painted their headquarters. Then after cleaning for them they gave us a first aid demonstration. Following this demonstration we had time...

Today we woke up to a torrential rain at 5. Then after attempted to sleep until we actually had to get up at 8. Once we all got up we got all our stuff together and began walking to the taxi pickup spot in the chilling but lighter rain. The taxi then took us ton the marina where we...

Today we woke up at 7:50. After we got we walked to the taxi pickup and went straight to the marina. At the marina we at breakfast and left to go to our dives. The ride was a little choppy but fun. Once we got the the wreck of the Rhone where we were diving we immediately got ready...

Today we woke up at 7:30 again. Then like usual we went to another hotel and had breakfast. We then learned more about IDing fish, laying transect lines, and surveying the reefs. We then had Speedy's taxi services pick us up and went Savannah beach were we snorkled for about 2 hours. The snorkling was really cool. I saw...

Today we had a relatively light schedule; we woke up at 8 then walked to the entrance of our resort where we got a taxi ride from from Speedy's. We then went to another hotel ate breakfast and began class. During class we learned about coral conservation and fish id. After this we headed to the docks and left...

Our first day in the BVI began with a wake up call at 7:30. We then got all the stuff we needed for the day and left our cabin. Next we walked to the front Guava Berry Resorts and got a taxi ride from Speedy's taxi service. The taxi tooks us to a hotel where we te breakfast. Next...

We started class today by talking about the schedule of our trip to the BVI and the expectations during it. Then we talked about leaping blennies. In its self I did not find the information in the article particlarly interesting; however, the discussion about evolution that stemmed from it was. We talked about evolution and how humans might have...

To begin class today we finished our dogfish shark dissections. My group did not have a lot left to do so we finished pretty quickly. After everyone finished their dissections we cleaned up the lab and by that time class was about half way done. After cleaning up we had another two groups present their projects. The first group...

After listening to the groups present today, I learned a couple of interesting things which could affect marine biologists everywhere. The first group discussed mimic octapus and to a lesser extent oysters. From their topics I learned that mimic octapus evolved so that they can use their camoflauge and shape their body to impersonate other marine life, such as...