Caleb Kilpatrick '14

Ahh the final day... I'm gonna miss the BVI's, a place where even the customs officers are friendly. Our final day began at the Olde yard for breakfast and some class info on turtles from the wildlife officer. After that we headed down to the marina to board the sea lion on our final excursion into the big ol'...

Today was our service day. We got up early in the morning and walked about a half mile to the wall we where supposed to paint. around 10 30 the temperature shot up to about 98 with 170% humidity. I was actually really impressed with the speed with which we finished the wall. Afterwards we showered off back at...

Today....uhmm I don't even know where start. It was a great day. We began with mr mcnutt's banana bread which is amazing by the way, and bacon wrapped in omelette. Today my boat the Sea Dragon left the dock before the Sea Monkey which was a big plus and when they finally caught up we moored the bots to...

Today was our dive of the RMS Rhone. Sunk by one of the carribeans largest hurricanes to date, the Rhone sank to a depth of up to 84ft on the night of october 29th, 1867 off of salt island. A ton of people died but it made for a great scuba park. The boat firswt smashed against a rock...

Caleb Kilpatrick July 5th 2012 Day 2 bvi The day began nicely, up without the alarm i got dressed with some of the clothes I had left out to dry the night before. It would have gone better had it not rained the night before, these rain storms seem to very frequent.... I wonder if its because of the humidity or if...

I started Monday in the bvi a bit confused and not quite sure where I was. The morning was a little rough, in an attempt to not be last cabin down everybody forgot their dive certification and dive kits, resulting in multiple trips up and down the hill.everybody made it down in time though. After a while the taxi...

In class we went over 4 different articles; group c, d , e, and f's From group C's article I learned that ecotourism is an extremely effective method of bettering knowledge and attitudes towards endangered species. I assumed that because they increased a particpants awareness of the issue it did not necessarily motivate them to fix it. From group D's article...

BLUEHEAD Order - Perciformes Family - Labridae Genus - Thalassoma Species - bifasciatum The bluehead fish has the highest average abundance of all fish in the BVI. Therefore, it is likely that we will see a lot of these on our trip, also because the blue head often approaches divers and snorkelers. Sometimes seen in schools up to 1000 fishes, they feed upon plankton...

Today in class we discussed the effects that global climate change has on various aquatic species as well as the effects it has on global coral reefs. These discussions came from our discussion of the previous nights reading assignments. Individually , everyone researched various types of mollusks and finished their notes work in class as seen below. Tomorrow we will...