BVI Dive Day 2: competition, group projects, and fire show
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...
Day 2
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...
Final Day – Cole Morin
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...
Day 4
The highlight of today was chasing sea turtles to tag them. We started with a lecture over sea turtle biology and habitat from a sea turtle biologist. After the quick lecture, we went to a nearby bay which was supposed to be full of sea turtles. The method to tag sea turtles was to drag five people behind the...
Day 2
This morning we started with a quick breakfast at 7:30 in one of our casas before reporting at the main road to take Glen's taxi. His taxi is an old f350 flatbed with several benches and a roof fitted to it. As we drive from the resort to the harbor, we count the number of cars he honks hello...
Day 5 Blog
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...
Vincent Miranda Day 3
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...
Day 3 – Cole Morin
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...
Day 5:
Day 5:
Today I woke up and had the usual corn pops with juice, this mornings flavor was Secrets of the Valley. We then hastily made way to the Sea Monkey. We suited up and went for the first project dive of the day. We went to West Dog Island to lay down our tapes and begin recording. Our first...