2012 Week 1

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...

Moray Eels have small eyes, so they rely on their keen sense of smell. They generally wait in holes and burrows to catch their pray. They have large teeth and wide jaws. Also, they have a second set of jaws called pharyngeal jaws inside their throat that they use for capturing and restraining prey. Moray Eels feed on fish,...

This trip just keeps getting better and better. Today was another great day with a two tank dive, some snorkeling, and then mass and dinner. We woke up at 7:30 and headed down to the gate to get picked up by the taxi. We went straight to the marina and ate breakfast there. After we finished we went over...

I woke up a little later than normal at 7:00 ready to start an incredible day. I eagerly anticipated going to what I predict to be the highlight of the trip: The Wreck of the Rhone. We quickly ate breakfast on the docks and went out to Salt Island. Now there were four things I really wanted to see...

We started out the day a little earlier today with Cedar Cabin waking up at 7:30. We put on our clothes and once again took the taxi driven by Glenn, but only after playing frisbee with everybody. Once again team Sea Monkey and Sea Dragon ate at the marina and left off of the harbor bright and early with...

The first ocean dive of the trip was a 45 minute long, 58 foot deep dive around reefs and shelves. Entering the water, we were initially at about 20 feet, and at that depth there were a few small fish. The deeper we descended, the larger and more diverse the organisms became. We saw three lobsters, some arrow crabs,...

In the first article that we went over today, we learned that ecotourism does in fact create awareness, but it does not help the conservation efforts. Ecotourism does little to conserve and some would say that the negatives outweigh the positives. In the second article, we discussed the effects of invasive fish species, like how they can destroy a...

In this class we learned about global warming and its negative effects on marine species population and migration We also learned about the different species in the bvis such as angle fish and damsel fish We also discussed the plate of the earth and how there movement can creat damaging volcanos and earthquakes

Over the course of these two weeks each classmate has worked on a research project with a group and presented an article they used in their research. Today I learned how well artificial reefs are doing. I used to think only real reefs would hold a lot of biodiversity, but one of the groups showed us data that supported...