2013 Marine Bio II

Once we had a long day of traveling, Christian, Chris, Alex and I finally got to our wonderful room at the Guavaberry resort. In the room we had some nice snack and Gatorade waiting for us after being in an airport for a near day. In the morning we woke up at seven and got ready for the breakfast...

Discovery. Adrenaline. Position. Thrust. Contact. Escape. Pursuit. Dismay. So did my single encounter with a lionfish progress today. Once again, I've only managed to injure the infidel, though my conquest continues. Our morning began with a light breakfast but a heavy presentation by Dr. Gore on the state of the turtles in the world and in the Caribbean. Our mission...

I signed up for Marine Biology for the second year for a few reasons; the amazing opportunity to visit a foreign country with your high school class, connect with people living in a completely different world than your own, and further my knowledge of our earth and how it all works together. The opportunity to travel to BVI...

Today we woke up at the same time (me about 10 minutes late since I can't wake up for my life) and packed our gear for the day. We walked to the commissary to eat breakfast and meet Dr. Gore for a presentation on the 4 different types of sea turtles in the BVI - Loggerhead, Green, Hawksbill, and...

Today we woke up at 7:10 and got ready for the day. We walked to the commissary where Casey met us with fruit and donuts the size of small cakes. I ate 3 much food and waddled to the taxi for the marina. Glen the taxi driver took us to the marina where we got on our boat and...

After being awoken by Dr. Gruninger and hopping in the shower, I found my body going into a hypothermic state for newbie Nick Byrne had once again pulled a rookie move and had taken all of the hot water. I shrugged off this small inconvenience and headed to a breakfast full of enormous donuts. After breakfast we went to...

My cabin woke up a little late today and we scrambled to get ready only to be the first cabin down for breakfast. Casey again so kindly had everything already prepared for us when we came down to eat. Dr. Gore made another presentation to us during our meal on sea turtles. She reintroduced to us the defining features...

Yesterday morning I awoke to the soft voice of Jeff Melsheimer telling me that it was time to get up to get ready for breakfast. Glenson then shuttled us to the marina for breakfast in Casey's office again. After breakfast we put our stuff on the boat and began loading our coral reef pieces onto the boat. In addition,...

We started off the day by going down to Casey's office and have a wonderful feast of yogurt, pears, mangos, and granola bars down by the marina. Once we fed all the nearby chickens Pop-Tarts, Marine Bio 2 got onto Sea Dragon and headed over to a dive site called "Wreck Alley" in Deep Chromis off the coast of...