2012 Week 1

Today was our second dive and we went to Savannah Bay for snorkeling to start us off. There we saw many of the different types of fish and coral that we discussed earlier in class. Among these being being fire coral, fireworks, sea eggs, lettuce slugs, rock urchins, sea urchins, and many more. To top-off the day we...

Today I woke up at 6:45 and got ready for breakfast. I went to breakfast and it was again awesome. We learned about identifying fish in the short classroom session this morning. Then we went snorkeling for a little while. I found it was a lot easier and less tiring than I expected. I was able to see some...

To a very unlikely surprise, my roommates and I didn't wake up to chickens crowing at the top of their lungs. Instead, we woke up to a light tropical rain which sent us scurrying to our porches to gather our clothes from the previous day. As usual, the crew and I walked down to the curb at 8am to...

Today Doc's charming barrage of knocks at outer door woke us up at 7 for a taxi to breakfast at 8, we ate at the same place as yesterday, a small room near a hotel. After brekky, Laura, a dive BVI assistant from England with a degree in marine biology gave us a presentation on reef life in the...

We woke up to another beautiful morning today in Virgin Gorda. There was a slight overcast and we headed down to our meeting point at 7:45. After another filling breakfast of eggs, bacon, sausage, fruit, and a muffin, Laura, my dive instructor, gave all the students a talk on fish I.D. We learned about every type of fish...

On the 2nd day at BVI, I woke up and took a shower like I did on the first full day. After the shower the truck pick us up and took us to olde yard. At olde yard, we ate breakfast which consisted of banana bread and fruit. After breakfast was over, Laura taught us about the fish we...

Today we snorkeled in savannah bay, I thought the small coral environments were the best to experience the majority of species. I saw all different types of fish, corals, and sponges from the beautiful loud eating parrot fish to the millions of spiky sea urchins hiding in the rocks. The coolest fish was the grey ray I...

Here are some action shots form our travel to the BVI and our incredible first day of diving!

I started Monday in the bvi a bit confused and not quite sure where I was. The morning was a little rough, in an attempt to not be last cabin down everybody forgot their dive certification and dive kits, resulting in multiple trips up and down the hill.everybody made it down in time though. After a while the taxi...