2014 Week 1

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. ...

So the last day of being at the BVI was a little more relaxed. We woke up around 9:00, and that extra hour made a difference, as we now had even more time to sleep. We had breakfast over at Kirby, Gruninger, and Golab's cabin, consisting of huge freaking donuts, some yogurt, fruit bars, apples, and various...

So today started well, with the roosters waking me up early at exactly six in the morning. Once I got out of bed, I jumped into the shower and prepared myself for the work ahead. We headed out for breakfast at 8:00, chatting and enjoying the morning breeze. After a great breakfast of a bacon omelet...

Well, today was a pretty spectacular day. However, last night Christian, Jack, and I had a close encounter of the arachnid kind yet again. Before we went to bed, Jack almost had a large spider, about the size of a half dollar, land on his head. However the problem was swiftly taken care of by Christian. After all that,...

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...

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,...

So why did I decide to join the Marine Biology Course for the summer of 2014? I'm a teenager. I'm young. Maybe naive. Attend high school. And don't yet have to pay for taxes or housing. This part of my life is to experience things and go on adventures before I get all old and wrinkly. So I am...

Today we had two dives and a snorkel. The first dive was through "the Chimney", a series of several crevices and caverns in the reef. This dive was the most interesting one we've gone through so far. While at the surface, many moon jellyfish were lurking about in the shallow range. After some serious thought, I finally had the...

Day 3 Recap Our day started as usual. We woke up, grabbed our stuff, and were on the taxi by 8:00. For breakfast I tried the hot oats with fruit. The fruit on this island is absolutely amazing! The oats were pretty good, but were second to the bacon and cheese omelette. After breakfast we had a briefing on sea...