Anthony Fischer '17

Day 6 was our last normal day in the BVI which was pretty sad despite it being a pretty cool laid back day. Before getting into the day we had a night snorkel on day 5 which was a unique yet similar to the normal snorkels we had done prior. In the beginning of the snorkel we saw a...

Today was a very exciting day highlighted by the R.M.S. Rhone ship wreck dive. We started with breakfast at the Lime Tree cabin as it was their turn to serve the rest of the group. The first dive was an alternative site at Wreck Alley since the original site had too strong of a current the time to dive....

Today was another tiring yet very exciting day starting off with breakfast at the Plum cabin. It was announced that we were losing a chaperone today with Mr. Kirby returning home early. The main goal today was to finish up our experiment dives and fortunately we finished in three dives with the second not having an stag horn coral....

We began the day with my cabin, Mango, making a delicious homemade breakfast for the rest of the group and the chaperones. After finishing, we headed to the boat to prepare for our experiment dives and once we got the scheduled site we came across too strong of a current and had to move to another site. We moved...

First thing in the morning after getting ourselves ready we ate breakfast at the Hibiscus cabin where all of the Jesuit staff chaperones cooked breakfast for us. After breakfast we headed down to commissary to listen to a presentation over sea turtles by Dr. Gore to mentally prepare us for turtle tagging later in the day. My boat...

For the first flight I arrived at the airport about 20 minutes before 5 am after getting less than one hour of sleep due to a mix of excitement and anxiety. I was really looking forward to this trip especially since it is my first time traveling outside of the United States. The first and longest flight went to...