Bryce Ozier '17
BVI 2016: Day 6
Today was a bitter sweet day. We had our very last day in the BVI. We started out our day with service. Usually I kind of try not to think about this day cause of all the hard work that comes with it. Spending time picking up trash and smelling weird smells in the heat isn't something I enjoy...
BVI 2016: Day 5
Today was a very fun day. We went out to one of the coolest dive sites that we saw on our trip. We went to a ship wreck that was overtaken by coral. The wreck ship was called the Rhone. The shop was built in 1865 and was declared unsinkable. It was one of the first ships to be...
BVI 2016: Day 4
Today we started out eating breakfast in the mango cabin. After breakfast we headed to the marina to start our second project dive. Before my group had tested one trial that was deemed irrelevant and claiming too many variables. So we decided to repeat the trial but keeping within controlled variables, matching to the other two. After we finished...
BVI 2016: Day 3
Today we had a really active and eventful day. We started our our day at the mango cabin for breakfast. After that we headed to the commissary to meet with Dr. Shannon to discuss the conservation efforts to save sea turtles. We discussed how there are 7 types of species and where they migrate. Sea turtles in the Caribbean...
BVI 2016: Day 2
Today we began our day at Doc's cabin and had breakfast. We talked about our goal for the day once we got to the boats to meet up with Casey and the other diving instructors. We worked on our projects and ran our first series of tests. My group was responsible for observing how many kinds of fish species...
BVI 2016: Day 1
Today was we met our diving instructors and set off in the boats to start our day. We ate breakfast at the restaurant next to the harbor. After Casey gave us a briefing on what we would be doing today. We got out on the boats and set off. We headed to these islands that are known as the...
BVI Dive Day 5: Trenches, Cleaning, and Presentations
Today was very nervracking and exciting. We started out our day with sickness unfortunately. Two of our classmates came down with food poising the night before. But they soon felt better the next morning and we're back to normal. We started our diving for the day at rocky location that had many underwater trenches and passages. It was...
BVI Dive Day 4: Invertebrates, Turtle tagging, and Embarrasment.
Today was a much needed day. We were all really tired and today was a very relaxed day. Today we helped Casey, our lead marine biologist. She had told us that we were capturing invertebrates. We didn't capture any thing, pretty much Casey captured everything. We learned about arrow crabs, sea urchins, snails, and a fire worm that injects...
BVI Dive Day 3: Ship wreck, Cooper island, projects, and night snorkeling
Today was a very eventful day once again. We woke up, ate, and then headed to the marina like usual to go on our dives. But when we got there, we found out we were going to be diving down to an old ship wreck that had been there since 1876. When we got to the site, our dive...