2015 Week 2

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...

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...

The final full day in Virgin Gorda had started at bit later, precisely thirty minutes of extra sleep. After an amazing breakfast of massive donuts and juice, we headed toward the harbor in order to snorkel to the site of a previous shipwreck where the debris had been piled up on the shore. After getting to the area our...

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...

Today we went out to take our checkout dive to refresh our diving skills at George Dog island and had hundreds of little bar jacks schooling around the group. After our ability to dive was cleared for diving we set out for a fun dive around a sunken airplane. Before the airplane ever went into the water, it was...

It is amazing that today was the very last day, this trip went by so fast. We started off today with eating some delicious and gigantic chocolate donuts. We then did a beach cleanup, which involved us picking up pieces of a catamaran that crashed a few months ago. It was very difficult to get to this spot. We...

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...

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 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...