2015 Week 2

Day 3 began like the previous day's with breakfast at 7:30 and Glen picking us up in the taxi at 8:20 to take us to the marina. We headed out on the boat ride to salt island to dive the wreck of the RMS Rhone. The Rhone had been a luxury ship and typically held people who were very...

I'm just gonna start off and say this day was awesome. We got up and has another breakfast of champions that consisted of cereal and bread. After everyone scarfed down their fruit loops and frosted flakes we lathered up on sun screen and got ready to leave. After we arrived at the marina we learned that our first dive...

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...

On the second day of this trip, I was able to increase my knowledge in marine biology through two exciting dives. The first dive took us to a place called wreck alley. While going to Wreck Alley, Beth taught us the names of several islands we passed by. I saw Cooper Island, Salt Island, and Tortola island. She told...

Today fulfilled a few lifelong goals of mine, to swim with sharks and to watch fire dancers up close. We did our first dive at site called "Ginger Steps". The geography of the slope under the water forms giant steps, hence the name. As soon as we took the giant stride method into the water there were almost immediately...

Today we woke up early, ate breakfast and met our diving instructors. We had a refresher on how to assemble our diving equipment, such as, connecting our regulator to our BCD and making the proper checks for a successful dive. We rode out to these islands that are called the dog islands because when Columbus came sailing through here,...

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 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...

Today's breakfast was one of the best we've had so far. Not only were we the cabin that served it, but Casey brought an extra surprise: donuts! It was the most delicious breakfast yet. For the last full day, we snorkeled from the marina to a rocky shore were a huge pile of debris from a ship had pilled...