2014 Week 2

A government official from Tortola came with us today to help us with tagging sea turtles. Joelle explained that we would be pulled behind the boat on snorkel by a rope and when we saw a turtle we should hold up our hand and release while keeping our eyes on the turtle. Then we would have a person...

I signed up for this course because I heard it was something in would never forget and was a great overall experience.

Waking up this morning I knew I had a tiring and exciting day to look forward to. Many people have told me that the rhone dive was their favorite dive. I was very excited for this dive because it was going to be the deepest I had ever been on a dive. After breakfast we got to the boat...

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...

Our last day in BVI we woke up at a normal time to go have breakfast at the teacher's cabin again. After breakfast we took a taxi down to a beach that was in much need of a good clean up. We spent the next hour and half walking up and down the rocky shore, looking for anything we...

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,...

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 morning, we again got to wake up at 7:00 am and meet at 7:45 for breakfast. Afterwards, we prepared our equipment and left to our divesite at West Seal Dog. The two dives for the day were focused towards fish identification. In my group, we named over 30 species of fish. Some that were my favorite to...

Today we took what we learned in the classroom yesterday and put it to work. Today was all about fish identification. Our first dive was at dog island. The dive was a forty five minute dive and we looked at many different types of fish and coral. We had to write down on a slate the type of fish...