2013 Week 1

Today I woke up, having forgotten to set my own alarm, by my room mate Jackson White. Unbeknownst to all of us at the time being, Jackson would later stake his claim to fame in the afternoon to come. I immediately rushed to the coffee pot that Andrew had been working on for the past 15 minutes and made...

We made it! The guys did great and are getting some rest before we hit the ground running with checkout dives in the morning. They will be blogging tomorrow, so look forward to hearing their stories. I can already tell it is going to be a great week! Ben Kirby

A pillow woke me up today...from Gavin. Luckily, he woke all of us up when he did, because we almost overslept. We at breakfast at the office again, eating donuts, pop-tarts, and yogurt. During breakfast, Doctor Shannon Gore gave a presentation on sea turtles and the different kinds. It started to pour near the end of the presentation, and...

My hut awoke to the sharp buzzing sound of the alarm clock. Then we all prepared for our short, basic breakfast at the Dive BVI office. At the office everyone ate bread, cereal, poptarts, and a large assortment of fruit. After breakfast the marine biology one group headed out to the Rhone wreckage site on the coast of...

Saturday After being exhausted from the night before everyone slept hard and suddenly awoke to the alarm clock blaring. Next both marine biology one and two got dressed and took a taxi to the marina where we ate a breakfast similar to the one we had eaten the previous day. We ate at the Dive BVI office and...

Doc woke us up today, because we were sleeping in. We had a lot to do today, because we headed out to the dive site today really early on. Today was coral planting day, and we worked in conjunction with MB2. MB1 dove first to find fragments of coral; we had heard that someone dropped anchor on coral, so...

Today was the last day on Virgin Gorda, and we had a relaxing day. MB1 painted a mural, and MB2 hunted lionfish for a barbecue tonight. Once we finished the mural we ate lunch after watching Jeff filleting the lionfish they caught. They caught 10 in all, and Jeff had 3 frozen from the week before. Afterwards, we were...

Starting at 7 in the morning, day one began slow after an exhausting previous days travel. As a group we went over to Old Yarde for an amazing breakfast with members of the dive BVI staff. We met Casey, Jeff, Jeff Jr., Catlyn, Laura, Pablo, & Fernando & following their introductions we introduced ourselves to them & received...

Day two was a great day in the water. Our morning activity was a snorkel at "the baths" where we saw a ton of different fish and a barracuda. The afternoon activity was a very fun dive where we saw a reef shark, sea turtle, lion fish and many more cool fish. The other cool thing about todays...