David Madrazo '16

We woke up early this morning to make our way down to the teachers cabins for breakfast. After my five star sausage, eggs, and apple jacks it was off to the marina to prep for our first dive. Once on the boat I found out our first dive was going to be in the same place as it was...

When I woke up this morning I had to hurry and get down to the taxi that would take us to the dock. After breakfast we headed out to the boats because we had to get going on our expedition. Today was the biggest day and the reason we came down to the BVI, coral replant. We had two...

Late last night we did a night snorkel on the beach. I was not the biggest fan of the two previous snorkels but this one was so cool. We carried around led flashlights and snorkeled around the beach and I found so many cool things. A few of them were lobsters, jelly fish, squid and sting rays. The sting...

Waking up this morning I knew I had a tiring and exciting day to look forward to. Many people have told me that the rhone dive was their favorite dive. I was very excited for this dive because it was going to be the deepest I had ever been on a dive. After breakfast we got to the boat...

Today we took what we learned in the classroom yesterday and put it to work. Today was all about fish identification. Our first dive was at dog island. The dive was a forty five minute dive and we looked at many different types of fish and coral. We had to write down on a slate the type of fish...

After a long day of traveling and a short night of rest I had to get up early and get my day started. We took a taxi to the hotel for a warm breakfast and a classroom session. We met some of the instructors and learned about what we were going to do on the island. The first topic...

David Madrazo This class interested me because I felt it was an opportunity that I wouldn't get again. Also a couple of years ago I got certified with my family because we were planning on going diving but we never did.