2013 Week 1

We had a great time today with Marine Biology 1! We went to Savannah Bay for a beautiful snorkel and to learn about invertebrates and then headed off to tag turtles! Love Doc

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...

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...

Day three was a very active day. The morning led off with a snorkel and a touch tank. We dove with our instructors and collected things to look at in a tank. Once we got on land we picked up various sea urchins and coral to examine while the instructors told us all about them. We then had some...

My two pound weight in one hand, side by side with my dive buddy Zac, we search carefully for staghorn & elkhorn suffering from some kind of visual malady. This is how we began our day, we dove in the shallows off of Long Beach in Virgin Gorda. We searched for corals displaying signs of bleaching, overgrown...

Today we started off with a double tank dive at the Rhone. The Rhone is a sunken ship that has turned into a dive site with all sorts of marine organisms. When we first got down there we saw all sorts of fish and one of the coolest things i saw was a group of 13 squid who let...

Waking up this morning was tough, I finally crawled out of bed around 7:20 after much procrastination & I have never made a better decision. After arriving at the cattle gate at 7:45 we were taken over to the harbor for breakfast at the Dive BVI office, thanks to all of Dive BVI for hosting our meal &...

I awoke at 7:00 a.m. because of noise from Riccione and routinely went and made coffee for the whole cottage. I drank my cup of coffee and got ready and headed to the commissary and was there with a few marine bio 1 and 2 guys and then we were told we were meeting at...

I have never been scuba diving before besides a lake for a scuba certification class but from what i hear its a great experience. Also the way i see it, i can either sit in a science class all semester or go scuba diving at the british virgin islands with my classmates. I am looking forward to seeing some...