2014 Week 2

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...

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,...

Sunday morning we woke up and immediately went to eat breakfast at the marina. After we boarded our boats and Casey gave us a briefing on how our two fish identification dives would work. For the first dive I held the identification book and told my dive buddy, Ty Morin, what to write down. On that dive we saw...

Yesterday July 27 we got a later departure for breakfast which was 7:45 which meant we got just a little bit more sleep. After a breakfast of cheese omelets and sausage we headed out for a two tank dives to really test out our fish identification skills. In dive buddies we had to find and ID as many fish...

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...

The day started off with a banging on the door by Mr. Kirby at 7 am and I had a lot of trouble getting out of bed from being so tired from the previous day of diving. We started the day with breakfast at the marina and then went straight to the boats. We took a 15 minute boat...

Day 2 Today waking up was really hard, but we got some breakfast at the marina and immediately got on the boat for a two tank dive, or two dives on the same outing. Our first dive was at Dave's Grotto and our goal was to identify as many fish as we can. We went over a small briefing on...

July 28 Eating breakfast of the dock of the marina, the day begins. The first dive for our group was Paul's grotto. The dives must increment each time because this dive was better than the last. We saw and touched moon jelly, supposedly a none stinging jellyfish. The coral and marine plants varied in color and shape immensely. Seeing...

Today I woke up ant 6 and worked out a little. Ryan brought a band that is good for working out, I took a shower and at seven everyone got up. Once we were all together we ate breakfast. I had hot Oates and a nice ham and cheese omelet. After that we got on the boat and did...