Day 4 – Cole Morin
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...
Day 2
On the second day of the trip we went to Wreak Ally. In Wreak Ally there are four artificially placed ship wreaks. We only went to two of them the Beata and Island Seal. The Island Seal was accidentally placed upside down. The deepest at Wreak Ally was about 90 feet. At the beginning of the dive we dove...
Day 5 – Cole Morin
Today was our last day that we got in the water to dive. It started with team Sea Dragon going to the coral nursery to clean the coral trees. We were supposed to go and clean off the algae and gunk that had collected on the trees in the past week. The trees had five branches and held ten...
Day 2 Blog
For the second day, we dived near an island called Ginger Island. The first dive took place on a reef called the Ginger Steppes, which where a series of pelagic shelves that steadily went downward. It was also our deepest dive, with a maximum depth of 65 ft. We were told that the area has a diverse population due...
Day 6:
Today we woke up to a late start. We had donuts for breakfast and they were massive, almost the size of my head. Then we suited up and snorkeled to a part of the beach at which a ship had wrecked and we were to clean it up. It got beached and destroyed when it snapped away from its...
Day 4: Sea turtle chase
Today we got to sleep in a bit but it was also our cabins day to prepare breakfast. After Name cooked us some pancakes to tide us over, we got all set up for breakfast. After everyone had their cereal and drank their Whispers Of Summer juice we got on the taxi were Marine 1 headed to Savannah beach...
Day 1: first dive, plane wreck, and the baths
This morning we woke up to the sound of rooster calls at 5:30 after a surprisingly but pleasantly cool night. After packing our day bags we met at Doc and Von's cabin for breakfast. We got plenty of eggs, cereal, and sausage before walking to the main road for the drive to the boats. Soon enough, we were fitted with...
Day 6
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...