2015 Week 2

Day 5: Today I woke up and had the usual corn pops with juice, this mornings flavor was Secrets of the Valley. We then hastily made way to the Sea Monkey. We suited up and went for the first project dive of the day. We went to West Dog Island to lay down our tapes and begin recording. Our first...

Today I awoke excitedly awoke knowing a day of studying invertebrates and turtle tagging awaited me. Contrary to other days, today Marine 1 students would be split from Marine 2 students. Us Marine 1 students got in the taxi and drove to the beautiful, Savanna bay. There Casey, Beth, and Andrea were waiting for us under a tent. We...

Today has left me completely exhausted after a long day of diving down to the Rhone shipwreck, snorkeling around Cooper Island, and attempting my group's project during the night snorkel. At the surface of the Rhone shipwreck, massive waves rocked the boat, making everybody a little queezy in the stomach. However, once down under, the sight of the ship...

Even without diving, today has been spectacular and a knowledge enhancing day. Everyone in marine one went first todo a snorkel on Savannah Bay. Because Savannah Bay is a marking point between the Caribbean and Pacific waters, there's a unique visible distinction between both bodies of water. Everyone in marine one broke into groups and snorkeled for about forty...

Today was the fourth day of our trip. Today we did our invertebrate studies and turtle tagging. In the morning we did our invertebrate studies at Savannah Bay Beach. We snorkeld in the shallow reef there. The invertebrates we found was a arrowhead yellow stripe crab, rock boring urchin, west indie urchin, a Peterson cleaner shrimp, a bearded fire...

The highlight of today was chasing sea turtles to tag them. We started with a lecture over sea turtle biology and habitat from a sea turtle biologist. After the quick lecture, we went to a nearby bay which was supposed to be full of sea turtles. The method to tag sea turtles was to drag five people behind the...

The day had finally come when we got todo our big wreck dive, the RMS Rhone. As we went over to the site, Beth gave us a rich history on how the Royal Mail Ship met its demise. Originally it was, as a designated mail ship, moved to work the Caribbean Line in order to transport valuable goods such...

Today the quest for marine life continued while the Marine Biology-2 guys went to Nacker Island to check out the various mammals residing there and us Marine Biology-1 guys went out to study a plethora of invertebrates. The shallow reef where we dived was absolutely incredible and the snorkel consisted entirely of us searching for invertebrates in the various...

Today the quest for marine life continued while the Marine Biology-2 guys went to Nacker Island to check out the various mammals residing there and us Marine Biology-1 guys went out to study a plethora of invertebrates. The shallow reef where we dived was absolutely incredible and the snorkel consisted entirely of us searching for invertebrates in the various...