2014 Week 2

I wanna go for the trip and the senior science credit.

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...

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...

Day one on the island: My wonderful day started off with waking up at 7am and getting ready for the day. I took a quick shower, the. I realized that I had packed everything but a toothbrush. I used the next best thing I could find, my finger. I then proceeded to the cattle guard where everyone meets in...

David Madrazo This class interested me because I felt it was an opportunity that I wouldn't get again. Also a couple of years ago I got certified with my family because we were planning on going diving but we never did.

Day 5 Today we woke up at our normal time, 7:00, and went down go the marina when our bus picked us up. We had breakfast at the marina again and when we were done, we went to our boats and put all our scuba stuff together. We rode over to great dog island, the place of our original dive...

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

We started off the day earlier with a lovely breakfast at the marina then shortly followed by a very interesting dive at Paul Grado. On this dive, we brought along both a writing slate and a fish identification packet to practice ID'ing fish and giving rough estimations of species. Also on these dives, we visited "Joe's cave", a very...