2014 Week 1

Today we cleaned up a beach by the airport. For a few hours, we picked up all sorts of trash around the area. There were thousands of pieces of various sized rope lying around the beach and stuck deep within the dirt; some pieces were over 20 feet long. Other interesting pieces of garbage were a surf board, large...

Today was our last day in the British Virgin Islands. We had completed all of our diving for the week and we decided to spend the day by cleaning a beach near an airport. When I arrived at the beach, I was surprised by the overwhelming amount of trash in the area. Fishing nets, buckets, boat parts, cans, bottles,...

Today was a very relaxing day we ended up staying dry, which was upsetting because the ocean looked so refreshing to jump into to. But we helped out the community which made everybody feel good, to be able to give back to the community by cleaning up the beaches and making it a healthier and nicer place. It took...

Well, it's finally here. This was the last day of our BVI trip and we finished strong. The reason being that we all went to a small beach and helped clean it up. Once we got up and had donuts about the size of my head, we made our way to the beach. The types of trash we found...

The main focus for our last day of diving in BVI was coral transplanting, which was divided into four steps: picking the staghorn coral from a coral reef, preparing the site where we would plant them, planting the coral, and measuring the successfully planted coral. After breakfast, marine 1 and marine 2 split off: marine 1 going on a...

Today. The last day of diving here in the BVI. Gotta make this interesting. So today started like every previous day so far: wake up, back to sleep, get up, shower, change, bus, and breakfast. Today, however, was coral planting day. We mighty, manly men of Marine 2 went first to...

Today we started out by going to breakfast just like a normal day in the BVI. After eating we went onto the sea monkey, where we were briefed on what we were going to be doing for the day. Today's main mission was coral replantation. Our objectives were to find the staghorn coral fragments from the previous Jesuit reef,...

Today was our last day going out on the boat and diving/snorkeling. Although it was sad because it was our last day, we still had a job to do which was setting up the new Jesuit reef by doing some coral transplanting. The day started out with everyone going to breakfast together, but once we finished eating we...

Today was about the preparation and actual action of transplanting coral in a new reef. We began by eating breakfast in our usual location in the marina. We then left to travel to Long Bay, where the old artificial reef was destroyed. We traveled about the area to find partially diseased pieces of staghorn coral. ...