2015 Week 2

After today I'm thoroughly exhausted and extremely happy about the course of events today. After getting situated for our second day of diving. In the Sea Monkey boat the day began, heading toward Cooper Island in order to dive wreck alley. Before the dive the boat briefed on the dive and learned we would be diving to the Beata,...

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...

Today was our last full day on the island and unfortunately we could not dive because we needed one day between diving and flying or else we might get the bends. However we still started our day early in the morning as usual. Our project for the day was to pick up pieces of a beached yacht as a...

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...

Marine Biology Day 1: Today, we woke up early and went to the offices at guava berry. We learned the ropes of the hotel and how to behave. We also went and learned the property. Soon after we ate breakfast and went back to our cabin to prepare for our first dive. We went to our boats and got fitted...

Today, our first dives of the week took place at the Dog Islands, particularly George Dog Island. We were told that their name stems from the Caribbean monk seals who's call was mistaken for the barking of rabid dogs by Columbus's crew, making them avoid the islands. Many years later, Pirates sailing through also heard the dogs, and thought...

We woke up today at 7:00am to have breakfast that consisted of eggs, cereal, bread, and muffins which was perfect to start our long day. After we finished breakfast we were taken to the dive shop to get on the dive boats. I am on boat Sea Monkey. After we were told what's going down on the check dive...

On our fifth day of the trip we went and did our project dives and presented the projects today. For the first dive of the day we went to West Dog reef. This was used as our "healthy reef" for our project. The reef there was beautiful, it had tons of parrotfish and grouper. For our project we set...

On the second day of the trip we went to Wreak Ally. In Wreak Ally there are four artificially placed ship wreaks. We only went to two of them the Beata and Island Seal. The Island Seal was accidentally placed upside down. The deepest at Wreak Ally was about 90 feet. At the beginning of the dive we dove...