Day 5
Today we set out to finish our research projects. As I mentioned on one of my prior blogs, we had to modify our initial blue tang behavior project. Now, our project focuses on what generally defines a shallow reef as healthy or unhealthy. For this project, we came up with three criteria: herbivore population, algae coverage, and coral bleaching...
Day 5 jack barker
Today we went out in the morning to do our final project dives and clean the coral nurseries in our mpa. The first dive we went out to west dog island to perform our second test on complex and simple reefs. When we diving we saw a ray, adult spotted drum and two juvenile spotted drums. The was also...
Day Five BVI 2015
Today was good. We woke up and after breakfast we started our day with two very shallow dives. They were for our groups project. They went well and my job in the process was keeping track of the time, clanging on my tank when it was time to start and end, and take pictures and video footage of coral,...
Schonberg Day 5:
Today our first dive was at West Dog Island. We did our expiriment very smoothly and saw an insanely odd fish called a white spotted drum. We also got good results on our experiment and proved our hypothesis. We saw several fairy basslet and a lot of Sargent majors. The next dive we went to a. Oral nursery and...
Day 3 in the BVI
Day 3 here in the BVI began with breakfast at one of our cabins and then a taxi down to the marina. Today was the day of the Rhone dive and then lunch on Cooper Island; I had been waiting a year to come back for this day. The Rhone dive was the by far the most interesting and...
BVI Year Two, Day Three
Day three, like every other day, was fantastic. On day three we dove at the wrecked Rhone. The Rhone was a British mail ship and luxury liner built in eighteen sixty five. The Rhone sunk in eighteen sixty seven during a hurricane. During the aforementioned storm, the Rhone was launched up onto a rock that split it's hull and...
Day Four BVI 2015
Today was by far the best day so far and it was really cool! This trip is really amazing. First we woke up and had breakfast and the marine one guys went to do turtle tagging but unfortunately they didn't catch anything. The rest of us went to Necker Island and it was like a zoo. It was also...
Day Four BVI 2015
Today was by far the best day so far and it was really cool! This trip is really amazing. First we woke up and had breakfast and the marine one guys went to do turtle tagging but unfortunately they didn't catch anything. The rest of us went to Necker Island and it was like a zoo. It was also...
Day 4
Necker Island is a private piece of land owned by Sir Richard Branson, the owner of the Virgin companies. Today, the marine biology 2 class received a chance to visit his island for the first time since the marine biology program began at Jesuit. Upon docking, we were greeted by an iguana who decided to cross the road before...