2015 Week 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...

Today was our last day living in paradise, and I will be extremely sad to have to leave tomorrow. Part of the day is dedicated to service and the other is a relaxation time. Our service site was on the shoreline where a big sailboat had gone astray off a mooring ball, and ran ashore. We collected all the...

Today fulfilled a few lifelong goals of mine, to swim with sharks and to watch fire dancers up close. We did our first dive at site called "Ginger Steps". The geography of the slope under the water forms giant steps, hence the name. As soon as we took the giant stride method into the water there were almost immediately...

Today the diving was equally as incredible as our first day, as we encountered an abundance of marine life and even ran into new creatures that we previously only imagined. Our first stop was further out than Saturday's excursion, bringing us all the way out to Ginger Island, where we descended at a location known as the ginger steps....

 Today the first few dives occurred at the same location, off of the coast of Salt Island in a shipwreck from the late 1800's of luxurious steam liner named The Rhone. This 300 foot behemoth of the time has a tragic story, starting with a sudden drop of bariatric pressure in area while the Rhone traveled through the...

Today the quest for marine life continued while the Marine Biology-2 guys went to Nacker Island to check out the various mammals residing there and us Marine Biology-1 guys went out to study a plethora of invertebrates. The shallow reef where we dived was absolutely incredible and the snorkel consisted entirely of us searching for invertebrates in the various...

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...

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...

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...