2012 Week 1

My first day down in the BVI started out with a nice surprise by waking up at 6 am to a bunch of roosters. Next we assembled all of our gear and then headed down to the front entrance of the resort where we were meet by our taxi. We then took this down to a hotel/resort area were...

This is the view that I woke up to today here in Virgin Gorda! Today was amazing! It was the first day that we got to dive so I was super excited from the start. We headed out of the resort at about 7:45 to head over to where we will be having class over the next week. We...

Today started early, with breakfast and a classroom session. Then we hung out by the pool for a while. After that, we went out on the boat for our first dive. Today was a great day for diving. There wasn't too much sun and it wasn't too hot. The diving here was much better than diving in a lake....

Today I had to wake up at 6: 30. After waiting for Jack, who is my roommate, got finished showering , I hop in and took a shower. Then my friends and I walked down to the waiting area to wait for the truck to take us to the Dive BVI. At the BVI, we ate breakfast and learned...

We had our first dive today in the BVI. Our group saw life immediately after decent.two lobsters were spotted by our instructors Jeff and Laura to me and my partner Matt Mills. After about five or six minutes we sphere already spotting groupers which are endangered in these areas. Jeff speared two lionfish during our dive with his speargun....

Today we woke up and had a class session with lunch and breakfast at an air conditioned portion of a nearby hotel, the room was set up for their prom tonight so although it had a capacity of about 30 people max, it was pretty fancy. After lunch we went to Valley Trunk and did our first dive. We...

There were four articles that were presented by groups of students today. The first group that went was my group. I explained to the class the benefits of ecotourism, including the awareness and protection of endangered species that is developed from the increased economy of an area with ecotourism. Because ecotourism provides jobs and boosts the economy, federal bans...

For the first article I feel ecotourism has hurt the marine environments and the creatures that inhabit them more than benefited them. We as human don't realize the harm we can cause when investigating various ecosystems like coral reefs damaging the coral themselves leaving their inhabitants homeless. For the second article I completely agree that these foreign creatures...