Paul Paris '13

Today, we enjoyed our last day by doing many things. The day started out with us waking up and heading straight for the marina. There we ate a quick breakfast of donuts and soon started our work at VISAR, which is the Virgin Island Search and Rescue. We all participated in various tasks such as washing out the boat,...

Today, we enjoyed our last two dives and also had a nice discussion over various questions related to the course. The day started out when we all woke up to a downpour outside. When the rain calmed down a little, we made our way down to the waiting taxi. From there, we left for the marina and the dive...

Today was full of events including two dives, a lunch at Cooper Island, and also snorkeling. We started up waking a little earlier than usual to be able to fit in everything for the day. After the taxi picked us up, we went straight to the marina where we had a quick breakfast and then began our first dive....

Today was very relaxing because although we had no dives, we still had fun at Savannah Bay and also The Baths. We started the day waking up and heading down to wait for the taxi. Once it arrived, we left for our usual meeting spot where we found a breakfast of eggs and muffins. We then began our lesson...

Today we learned a lot about coral conservation and fish identification. We woke up and headed to the same hotel as yesterday to eat. We had eggs, muffins, and fruit and then began our class and discussions. The first lesson was over things like coral environmental concerns and also coral characteristics and reproduction. The next lesson talked about how...

The past two days have been very exciting. Yesterday was full of traveling with two different flights. The first, from DFW to San Juan was actually not that bad. Though a little long, there was a lot to do. We watched The Adjustment Bureau and some random TV shows, listened to music, and played poker. When we got to...

Today was very exciting because it was the last day in the classroom and that much closer to the trip! We started out the class going over a few things on what to bring and also various expectations. After we finished talking about that, we moved right into two articles. The first article discussed the leaping blenny and how...

Today was full of information including finishing off a dissection, talking about two more articles, and beginning a project over the things we will see while in the BVI. Starting off the class, we went to lab to continue where we left yesterday with the dogfish shark dissection. Because we had to stop mid-lab, our shark was not as...

Today included discussion over two more articles as well as dissections of a perch and a dogfish shark! We started out the class though with a little bit of a twist. To test if we read the articles or not, we were given a sheet to fill out asking us to provide overviews of the articles as well as...