Sloan Stefanek '18

One of my favorite days yet. It was full of hard work, fun, and memories. We started off the day with breakfast as usual, and then we went to the local high school/elementary school to do some service. We planted some plants, vines, and trees, and we also filled some holes with concrete and organized their new library. We...

Today we started off our day with breakfast and then we went to get on our boats so that we could do our shipwreck dive. We dove down and saw a lot of fish such as bar jacks, tobacco fish, juvenile creoles, and more. The name of the ship which was sunk was called the Kodiak Queen, and it...

What an interesting day. It began with us looking for invertebrates while snorkeling in Savannah Bay, which we didn't really manage to catch or find. However, the dive instructors, Becca and Tara, had invertebrates ready in a plastic tub. The coolest one was a Sea Egg Sea urchin, which sucked onto your hand and gripped you strongly when you...

Today was a rough and difficult yet somewhat rewarding day. It certainly was not one of my favorite days but it was one that had to be done. It started off at 6 AM on a run with Doc Gruninger, who quite honestly killed me in terms of running. I was able to keep up for the first mile...

Today was full of ups and downs. First we went to Ginger steps and dove down. A lot of people on my boat, the Sea Monkey, got sick before the dive due to how wavy it was out on the water. Luckily I was not one of those people, and I got to go down and explore, where we...

Today we went on two separate dives, both of which were incredibly fun. In between dives, we got to hang out on the boat and I asked the Captain where we would be allowed to jump off the boat and he said we could jump off the top and to the side so I went up to the top...