2012 Week 1

The parrot fish lives in many tropical oceans and seas and lives in coral reefs they thrive on some different fish and coral. They can grow to be a foot long and they're correlation to parrots is their beak. They use their beak to scrape algae and chew their food.

"I like toytles" This quote from a boy on an interview in response to a completely unrelated question about turtles rings through my ears as the group and I embark on our final day in the beautiful Virgin Gorda. After being woken up at around 6:30 AM by Drew, who performs a daily morning run, sprinting up to our door,...

Today we woke up a little later than yesterday, around 7:15. We got dressed and waited for our taxi at the same spot as yesterday. After that we ate a delicious breakfast at the hotel again. Then one of our dive instructors, Laurie, taught us about the numerous species that inhabit the BVI. We learned about elkhorn and staghorn...

In the first few days of class, we have been learning the basics of marine biology; about the ocean, currents, waves, tides, zones and the organisms that live there. We are getting accustomed to using our iPads in the classroom, and discovering their large amounts of functions for learning as well as fun.

This morning was a very early morning. We had a quick breakfast , this time at the marina, then jumped straight on the sea monkey with Jeff a Laura and road 30 minutes to salt island. We parked at the marine Rhone park and briefed. We learned a lot about the 300 foot Royal Mail Ship...

Today we got an extra half an hour of sleep so our day began at 8:30 when the taxi picked us up. From there we drove to harbor and ate a fruit filled breakfast. It was a rather short breakfast compared to others, lasting only about ten minutes. Once breakfast was done we headed to the boats. Our destination...

The squirrelfish is a bony fish that is related to the ray finned fishes. They feed mostly on benthic invertebrates, and smaller fish. Some of the spines on the fish are poisonous and can inflic Mindful wounds.

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...

My final day in the BVI was a great one. It started out by waking up and heading over to olde yard for breakfast and then a presentation over turtle tagging. The presenter did not show up for a while so we started watching some free diving videos. Once the presenter arrived he showed us a sideshow on turtle...