BVI Year Two, Day Six
All good things must come to an end and that us certainly proven as today is our last day in the BVI. The day started off with a breakfast of monstrous donuts and then off to service. We learned that this year a nasty storm broke the mooring line of a catamaran which was quickly battered and beaten against...
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 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 1 – Travel
The excitement began at around 5 a.m. with a fellow student having some trouble with his ticket information.after everything was fixed up, we gradually made our way through airport security. After we had settled down in the gate entrance, everyone frolicked off to their own restaurants. I, an avid fan of eating a champions breakfast, went to the only...
Day 6
Today was my last day in the BVI and my last as a student in the Jesuit Marine Biology program. Because we had finished our research projects yesterday, the only thing left for us to do was our service project. This year, we decided to clean up boat wreckage on a beach. The boat itself crashed during a hurricane...
Year 2: Day 3 in the BVI
The day once again started off very early in the morning at 7 am. I slept through 6 of my alarms so thanks for my teammates/classmates for waking me up. The only difference with today's morning and yesterday's is that breakfast was at our house and the same food of fruit, cereal, fig bars, and bagels. After breakfast, I...
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...
