2012 Week 2

Final day of diving was today and it was a good one. Today was not just any ordinary dive; today we actually cut off and saved different corals that were in danger of dying and re-planted them in places where they could survive. The two types of coral we planted were Staghorn coral and Elkhorn coral, both of which...

Today was another fun and fulfilling day in the BVI. I got up at 7:45 again and got ready for the day. We met at our usual spot by the gate at 8:15. Then a taxi, driven by Glen, drove us to the marina. Once we got to the marina, we put our stuff on the boat and then...

Day 5 at the BVI What a great day it was today. Day 5 objective was to harvest and plant coral in areas where it was destroyed by weather conditions, affected by disease and where algae was growing on top of it. In the morning Glen came to pick us up and drive us the harbor...

I was not sure how today would turn out, but it was great just like every other day. We started the day like always, getting up and walking down to the cattle guard to wait for the taxi to pick us up. The taxi once again took us to the dock for us to get breakfast, and get out...

Today, I woke up got dressed and took a shower because of the intense humidity down here. Every. Every mourning I wake up and I am extremely sweaty. We went down to the cattle guard to wait for the teachers and Glenn took us to the olde yard for breakfast and a presentation by Laura on fish identification. It...

Today was very interesting. We started off the day by heading to the marina and eating breakfast there. After eating we got on our boats and went to the reck of the Rhone, which was a ship that crashed in 1867. I could not equalize, probably do to my congestion, so I was not able to dive. But I...

On day four on Virgin Gorda, we woke up and ate a speedy breakfast at the harbor, and got on our respective boats. We traveled to the wreck site of the RMS Rhone, a ship that sank during a hurricane in 1867, for two dives. On the first dive, we would explore the bow, or the front half...

Not often do I feel an uncanny need to produce a multimillion dollar film about a cruise ship, once named unsinkable, that tragically crashed leaving nearly all passengers dead, all due to error on the captain's part. Truly, the story of the sinking of the R.M.S. Rhone is a tragic one. But the fact that it led to what...