2015 Week 2

Leaving the burdens of travel behind, we began our first day in the BVI. Beginning with getting our equipment, notably better than any piece of equipment I've ever used, we garnered instructions from our dive masters. We then departed to our first dive site, George Dog Island for our first dive of the trip. During the trip over we...

My expectations for the British Virgin Islands were blown away by our first day. I was a little unsure of what exactly it was going to be like and felt a little out of my comfort zone. However, that didn't last very long. The day began with breakfast provided by Dr. Gruninger and Mr. Von that consisted of sausage,...

Being my first time in over a year to go scuba diving and my first time in the British Virgin Islands I didn't really know what to expect. In the morning we ate breakfast then took the taxi to the boats and got are equipment. On our first dive we went to George Dog reef. We used this dive...

This morning came as an abrupt and early snap back to reality after a long day of travel while my alarm blared and my roommate and I awoke. 6:30 wake up did not come easy, and after running out the door to breakfast I felt like I really still was asleep. All of this however was shortly made up...

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...

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...

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,...

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...