2015 Week 2

Today started off very nice and relaxing, since we got to sleep in for 45 more minutes. We first went to Savannah Bay, where we snorkeled looking for different types of invertebrates. My group was able to find a rockboring urchin, a West Indian urchin, a pederson cleaning shrimp, a fire worm, and arrow crabs. The pederson cleaning shrimp...

Today was very eventful and tiring. We woke up very early this morning thanks to Doc screaming at us to wake up.....that was nice. We then ate breakfast. After estima we met our diving instructors at the pier and boarded the boat. This diving sigue was very far out, taking us about 30 minutes to get there. We first...

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...

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...

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 two started off great with our journey out to ginger island. As soon as we dropped to 30 feet we were surprised by a friendly little Caribbean reef shark. Our journey continued down another 10 feet and that's when we got the chance to get really close to the three sharks circling David Madrazo, and Preston Sledge. We...

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 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...

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,...