2015 Week 2

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...

Day 2: We woke up this morning to the usual breakfast routine of cereal, fruit, and glorious juice boxes. We then prepared for the day with sunscreen and filling up on water. We then went to a dive site known as wreck ally. We saw two ships, one of which was a tugboat and the other was a ferry the...

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...

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...

Today was our last full day on the island and unfortunately we could not dive because we needed one day between diving and flying or else we might get the bends. However we still started our day early in the morning as usual. Our project for the day was to pick up pieces of a beached yacht as a...

Today we had two dives, the last two we would be doing on the trip. The first was to help Casey clean algae from some a coral nursery that had been set up. The nursery was made up of "trees", PVC pipe constructs that held pieces of growing coral on strings. If we allowed the algae to grow...

Today I awoke excitedly awoke knowing a day of studying invertebrates and turtle tagging awaited me. Contrary to other days, today Marine 1 students would be split from Marine 2 students. Us Marine 1 students got in the taxi and drove to the beautiful, Savanna bay. There Casey, Beth, and Andrea were waiting for us under a tent. We...

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...

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...