2014 Week 2

Day 2 started again at 7 AM at the meeting place between cabins. We trekked up to breakfast at the harbor restaurant. I ordered an omelette with sausage and bacon -- it was the tastiest omelette I've ever had. We then took our boat out, the Sea Dragon, to the Dog Islands where we dived in...

Day 1 Today we woke up to the crowing of a rooster outside our door, apparently one of many roaming freely about the island. We went out and met at the bus to take us to he class room. There we met the dive BVI crew and had breakfast. Then we talked about sea world and the moral ambiguity of...

On Sunday, we put to use our recent knowledge of marine life by doing two fish identification dives. The first place we went to was Paul's Grotto. The ocean floor was set up with several plateaus that dropped off suddenly. On this dive we saw the most marine life we had seen yet, including some fairy basslet, honeycomb cowfish,...

This morning was a little better than the last few mornings besides me not being able to sleep throughout the night. Our cabin was able to sleep in a little later to 8:30. So I woke up, grabbed my water bottle, hat, and sunscreen and headed to the teacher's cabin once again for breakfast. After we ate, we headed...

Our final day in the BVI started off good since we were able to sleep in until 8:45. After eating our breakfast at the teachers cabin, we headed to our worksite for the day. Our job for the day was to clean up a section of beach near us. We stayed there for over an hour cleaning up any...

After a long day of traveling and a short night of rest I had to get up early and get my day started. We took a taxi to the hotel for a warm breakfast and a classroom session. We met some of the instructors and learned about what we were going to do on the island. The first topic...

Today, I woke up to the sound of chickens. My cabin members, Hank Shotland and Matt Horvath, and I quickly got dressed and ready for our long day. We met all of our other classmates at the front entrance of the Guavaberry hotel. We were then picked up by our bus that took us to breakfast and class. We...

Yesterday we got up around seven and road to a restraint for breakfast. I had an egg sandwich with bacon and orange juice. We then got on our boat and had about a 15 minute boat ride to the dive site. Paul's grotto was the dive site we first went to. We all got slates and tried to identify...

A rise around 8:00 in the morning was a gift and we all needed it. We then headed to breakfast at the teachers cabin where we had homemade bread and other snacks. After, we went to the marina and met Joel, the turtle man, who explained to us the how the tagging of turtles worked. Some of the key...