2015 Week 2

Today we embarked of what became my favorite dive (so far). We explored the wreck of the Rhone, a British luxury ship, and one of the first ships to use a steam-powered propeller in conjunction with sails. Declared "unsinkable" in 1865, it ironically sunk in 1867. The story goes like this: during a particularly bad storm in the BVI,...

Today was the fourth day of our trip. Today we did our invertebrate studies and turtle tagging. In the morning we did our invertebrate studies at Savannah Bay Beach. We snorkeld in the shallow reef there. The invertebrates we found was a arrowhead yellow stripe crab, rock boring urchin, west indie urchin, a Peterson cleaner shrimp, a bearded fire...

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 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 3 began like the previous day's with breakfast at 7:30 and Glen picking us up in the taxi at 8:20 to take us to the marina. We headed out on the boat ride to salt island to dive the wreck of the RMS Rhone. The Rhone had been a luxury ship and typically held people who were very...

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...

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...

Today was a very eventful day once again. We woke up, ate, and then headed to the marina like usual to go on our dives. But when we got there, we found out we were going to be diving down to an old ship wreck that had been there since 1876. When we got to the site, our dive...

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...