2014 Week 1

I woke up at the routine 6:30, prepared for the day, and met everyone at the cattle guard at 7:50. We were taken to the restaurant inside the marina for breakfast. Here, I enjoyed some over-medium eggs, bacon, and toast. Following breakfast, Marine 1 & 2 went into the Dive BVI shop to learn about sea turtles from Dr....

Yesterday in BVI we had a very busy day of turtle tagging and snorkeling which were experiences I will never forget. The day started with breakfast and a short class, taught by Dr. Shannon Gore, over different types of turtles and how to tag them. Once we had been instructed on how to catch the turtles, marine 1 loaded...

Yesterday, Friday, started very well, with birds chirping and the sun shining. We followed our usual morning schedule: wake up, sleep for ten more minutes, get out of bed, shower, pull our water out of the freezer, get our gear ready, head down to meet our ride, and head to breakfast. After breakfast, we soldiers of Jesuit...

Not gunna lie, I was pretty hyped up for today and it did not disappoint. Today was expected to be great because today was for turtle tagging. After a lecture on sea turtles of the area and sea turtles in general we learned that the two prime suspects of our hunt were going to be the green sea turtle...

Today was a hectic and very tiresome day. We started off with an 90ft dive to the Rome. It was an amazing site and we saw a variety of fish. We got to swim through the hull in the ship and we saw a huge barracuda. It was very interesting to learn the whole background story of the ship...

Yesterday and today were filled with fun and excitement. Yesterday's activities included turtle tagging, seeing the rock formations in the baths, snorkeling around the baths, and a cookout at a beach. For turtle tagging, marine 1 separated into two groups: team 1 and team B. Team 1 went in the water to get dragged behind the boat by rope...

Day 4: no blog Day 5: Beep beep beep, my alarm clock goes off at 5:45 am. Christian and I wake up to go for a run. We meet up with Casey around 6:15 at the cattle guard to go on a relatively "easy" run. At first the run was flat and relaxing but soon afterwards it got steep...

Day 3 was the most exciting day so far. The day began with a presentation about sea turtles, how to catch them, and how to tag them. We then immediately went to the boat and traveled to the location where we would look for turtles. I and five others were dragged behind the boat for several...

Yesterday was the night snorkel so the teachers gave us the night off from the blogging. We started out eating breakfast as normal. Afterwards, we had a lesson of how the sea turtle population was declining very quickly and how recently, measures have been taken to protect the population from extinction. One of these protection methods was to track...