2015 Week 2

Today started off very nice and relaxing, since we got to sleep in for 45 more minutes. We first went to Savannah Bay, where we snorkeled looking for different types of invertebrates. My group was able to find a rockboring urchin, a West Indian urchin, a pederson cleaning shrimp, a fire worm, and arrow crabs. The pederson cleaning shrimp...

So far Day 3 has been the most exciting day for me. We started off the day by going to the RMS Rhone, a ship that sunk in 1867. The story behind this ship sinking is really interesting. The RMS Rhone, unlike many of England's ships, was steamship and was one of the best in the royal fleet. While...

Day 4: Today, we split from the marine 2 students and went to Savannah beach while they enjoyed special time at Neckar Island, where we will go next year. We first collected invertebrates like, Cabbage Worms, Fire Worms, Sea Urchins, and Crabs. We got to play with them in a touch tank that we set up. We then released them...

Today was a much needed day. We were all really tired and today was a very relaxed day. Today we helped Casey, our lead marine biologist. She had told us that we were capturing invertebrates. We didn't capture any thing, pretty much Casey captured everything. We learned about arrow crabs, sea urchins, snails, and a fire worm that injects...

Today was an interesting day that started off with sleeping in an extra twenty minutes. Then we got to leave the marine biology 2 students at the marina for their trip to Richard Branson's island, which meant we had the taxi to ourselves, which was a pleasant surprise. We made our way around the island to Savanah Bay where...

The first dive today was the wreck of then Rhone. The R.M.S Rhone was a British mail and passenger ship built in 1865. It was the most advanced ship of its time, with a coal driven propeller powering the ship in addition to conventional sails. It was one of two ships ever called unsinkable. However, in September of 1867...

Day 3: This morning we woke up to the usual breakfast in the Plum cabin, I had corn pops. We then went to the boat via Glens purple pinstriped taxi wagon. As soon as we arrived we hooked up our BCD's and put on our booties and got in the water for our first dive. After seeing the abyss that...

 Today the first few dives occurred at the same location, off of the coast of Salt Island in a shipwreck from the late 1800's of luxurious steam liner named The Rhone. This 300 foot behemoth of the time has a tragic story, starting with a sudden drop of bariatric pressure in area while the Rhone traveled through the...

On the third day of our trip we went to the R.M.S Rhone as the first dive. The Rhone was a streamliner from th late 1800s. This was a very large ship for the time measuring 300 feet in length. The Rhone was deemed unsinkable, however this did not hold to be true. When they were sailing away from...