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 One in the BVI 2015
Today was a good first day. We started off with a couple dives and I was a little nervous because last year I had problems while diving because of my sinuses. Happily, nothing bad happened and I'll try to keep it that way. Before we got in the water we had a debriefing on scuba gear and rules...
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...
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 5 in the BVI
Today we had breakfast as usual and took the taxi down to the Marina. After splitting up with the Sea Monkeys, we sailed over to coral reef nursery that Dive BVI and Jesuit are helping to maintain. During the pre-dive briefing, Casey explained that we had final,y established the reef as a Marine Protected Area, which means it is...
Sauer Day 4
Today, I woke up at 7:00, got ready, and walked to the Mango cabin for a breakfast of cereal, Honey Buns, and oranges. After breakfast, I rode to the marina and boarded the Sea Dragon. Then, I rode to our first dive site, a place called Ginger Steps. During the dive, I saw a four foot Caribbean Reef Shark,...
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,...
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...
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...