Day Three BVI 2015
Today we started off with two dives again. That was a lot of fun and no ear problems so that's good. Our first dove was a familiar site that we had visited last year called the Rhone. The Rhone is a ship wreck off the coast of an island and it happened roughly 150 years ago. The Rhone...
Day 4 jack barker
Today we did not do any dives. In the morning jeff took all of us marine bio 2 students to Richard Branson's private island Neckar Island. There he has a zoology program with lemurs and turtles. While on the tour of the island our guide showed several different types of lemur. He says he loves working with them because...
Day 3
Today we explored a ship wreck, faced down sharks, and observed turtles in the sea grass. To begin our day, we dove the Rhone, a British ship once thought to be unsinkable. As with the Titanic, the Rhone in fact proved to be sinkable and fell at the hands of a hurricane in the late 1800s. During our dive,...
Days 3&4
On day three of our trip, we explored the wreck site of a luxury ship from the 1860's called the Rhone. The Rhone sank in October of 1867 due to a massive hurricane that ran the Rhone into land. The steam engine room was the first part of the ship to make contact causing an explosion that divided the...
Day 3 – jack barker
In the morning today we went out to do two dives. The first was the wreck of the Rhone. In 1800s it was sailing through the BVI and one of the biggest hurricanes in BVI history swept in. When the hurricanes blew in captain wolly tried move the boat out farther in to see, when one of the crew...
Schonberg Day 3:
Today we began the day by diving on a wreck that sank in the 1800's. The RMS Rhone was being driven through the BVI when all of a sudden the barometric pressure dropped. The captain new a storm was coming so he ordered all of the passengers to go to there rooms and told the crew to lock first...
Schonberg Day 4:
Today we got to wake up a little later then normal and then the groups split by grade to do different things. The marine two people went to necker island which is owned by a successful business man named Richard necker. He was the man that started virgin records and has since expanded into many international companies. We got...
Day Three on the Island
Today was another fun filled adventure packed with a two tank dive and a project night snorkel. The two tank dive was at the RMS Rhone. The Rhone was a UK Royal Mail Ship owned by the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company. The boat wrecked off the coast of Salt Island in the British Virgin Islands in October 1867...
Day 7 – Unfinished Business
My final day in Virgin Gorda was a tough one. Knowing that I had to leave behind Dive BVI as well as Casey and Jeff was utterly heartbreaking, only because I am not certain when I will be returning to see them again. Before I discuss the rest of my day, I'd like to personally thank Casey, Jeff, Beth,...