BVI Dive Day 5: Trenches, Cleaning, and Presentations
Today was very nervracking and exciting. We started out our day with sickness unfortunately. Two of our classmates came down with food poising the night before. But they soon felt better the next morning and we're back to normal. We started our diving for the day at rocky location that had many underwater trenches and passages. It was...
Vincent Miranda Day 5
Our day began with the usual alarm and breakfast cooked by our gracious chaperones and a trip down to marina for our last dives in the British Virgin Islands. While the other dive boat and their crew had to attend to pressing business involving their projects our boat had a grand day with music and incredible experiences. Our first...
Day 4 Blog
Today we were split from the Marine 2 group. While they went off to a place called Necker Island. The rest of us stayed behind to study invertebrates and (try) to tag some turtles. First, we went snorkeling on a beach to catch and study some invertebrates. We caught a fire worm, a centipede-like creature that shot stinging needles,...
H. Droese -Day 5
Today was the big day, the final day of scuba diving, project preparation, and the final presentation of our findings. Before all the preparation of our data, we had two dives to collect more data. Our first dive was at West Dog Island in order to collect more data between complex and simple reef systems. In the process we...
Day 5 – Michael Huber
Breakfast was supposed to be hosted by my cabin this morning, key word "supposed". Two of the 3 of my cabin-mates had gotten sick the night before, leaving Doc and Mr. Von with the decision to move breakfast from our cabin to theirs to prevent anybody else from getting sick. In the end, both got well and nobody else...
Day 5 – Cole Morin
Today was our last day that we got in the water to dive. It started with team Sea Dragon going to the coral nursery to clean the coral trees. We were supposed to go and clean off the algae and gunk that had collected on the trees in the past week. The trees had five branches and held ten...
Day 5
Today we spent a lot of time working on our projects. Our first dive involved us observing a very healthy reef, where we saw some very territorial schooling sergeant majors. We then went to a less healthier reef on our second dive, where we saw a lot of tiny yellow wrass. What we noticed in this project was that...
Day 5: Project Day
Since I forgot to talk about last night I'm going to start off talking about last night. We had dinner on the beach. Jeff cooked up some great hamburgers to consume while we look at the sunset and play frisbee on the beach. Then to finish off the night, Mr. Von told us some of his real life experience...
Day 3 Blog
Today we embarked of what became my favorite dive (so far). We explored the wreck of the Rhone, a British luxury ship, and one of the first ships to use a steam-powered propeller in conjunction with sails. Declared "unsinkable" in 1865, it ironically sunk in 1867. The story goes like this: during a particularly bad storm in the BVI,...