2014 Week 2

We arrived at DFW airport at around 6 am and it was a very groggy, but exciting morning. We took off from DFW at about 9am or so and arrived in Miami at around 1pm because of weather in Miami. We took off from Miami at around 1:40pm and arrived in San Juan, Puerto Rico at around 4:30pm and...

Today was a late wake up at 8 with breakfast served no more than about 100 yards from our house. Being the second furthest house away from the main road this morning was quite exciting. Breakfast was an assortment of fruit with other items. We split duties in the morning then switched for the afternoon. The Sea Monkey boat...

Preston Sledge I want to take this class to expand my knowledge of oceans and ocean life.

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...

We got up around 7:15 and met at the cattle guard at 7:45 where Glenn picked us up to go to breakfast. The cheesy omelet filled with bacon and sausage I had today was good, but lacked the quality taste of some of the other breakfast omelets I've had this week. Anyway, we headed to the boats to get...

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...

This morning we met the dive staff Casey, Jeff, Sarah, Jeremy, Jessica, and Andrea. Then Casey gave us an overview of marine biology and the itinerary for the week. She also talked about an environmental and social issue in the world to gage are thoughts on saving the environment. Her example was sea world and how they hunt, catch...

Today, we got to sleep in until 8:00 which was very nice after a long day yesterday. Even though we got to sleep in, I woke up at 7 to go down to the wifi room. After staying there for a while, I went back up to the teacher's cabin for breakfast. For breakfast, we ate some yogurt,...

We got off to a good start today when we got to orientation with the Dive BVI staff for the first half of the day. We learned a little bit about what to expect in the coming week and got to know each other a little bit. Then, we spent about an hour on fish identification so we know...