2015 Marine Bio II

This morning I woke up and immediately began preparations for the breakfast feast. It gave John, Matthew, Jackson, and I the opportunity to show our responsibility as well as our ability host a crowd of hungry people. After a good meal we went back to the marina and set course for our first dive site, where we would perform...

Day five was radical. After a nice breakfast prepared by none other than Doc, we headed of to a coral nursery for upkeep duties. A coral nursery is a place where coral is grown safely in the BVI they use coral trees, PVC pipe structure that have small lines used to hold coral fragments that then grow rapidly due...

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...

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...

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...

The day started off the same again but breakfast was at tamarind cabin this morning. My friend Miles and Wyatt, who are rising juniors, came in clutch by changing breakfast up a bit. They paid extra money to buy eggs for everyone and scrambled them up and it was very generous of them. After breakfast, everyone walked down to...

Today there was no run we all got to sleep in also another 30 minutes before we headed to breakfast. Breakfast was the same old same old, and we went through the same routine but with one little mix up, we headed down to the wifi room before we would go to glen who would take us to the...

Day one, golly gee today was a winner. The day started off with an oh so excellently prepared breakfast made by none other than Doc and Mr. Von. Shortly after breakfast we went diving to review skills and enjoy the marine life of the BVI. On the first dives we saw a brilliantly colored flamingo tongue and the staff...

Today was an exciting day, but it was also a sad day because I realize this will be my last time coming down here and being apart of this amazing program. I could hardly go to sleep do to the fact that I was looking forward to traveling with all my friends to go help save our planet and...