2016

Today, we grabbed our gear and headed for the reefs off of Cooper Island. As we went over to the dive site, we prepared the tools needed for our experiment: different noise making devices, dive slates, and cameras. Luckily, having cameras wasn't a problem thanks to the awesome Sealife cameras that Marine 2 received as a gift. Before diving,...

Today started off with breakfast at the "almighty" Doc Gruninger's cabin. I knew today was going to be a good one after I had a cup of coffee and some eggs. We got on the boats and made our way out to Ginger Island for our first project dive. Bryce Ozier, Clay Walters and I swam around the bottom...

Today's Events Today after we woke up we headed to the cabin of the teacher's for breakfast where there were eggs and sausage as well as cereal. Then we met at the cattle guard as the taxi arrived to take us to the boats. The boats took us to the first dive site which was ginger hole where we readied...

Day 2: this morning started off with a rush at 6:30 to get dressed and run to the supervisor's cabin to eat breakfast. After a nice hardy breakfast provided by the amazing teachers, my group headed out to get ready for the trip out to sea. The first dive sight we arrived at was ginger hole which was about...

Day 2, We woke up early like the day before and went to eat at the hibiscus cabin. Hibiscus is the teachers cabin and they start off the week cooking breakfast for everyone. Each morning the cooking duty is changed from cabin to cabin. Then we left for our two dives for the day on the best boat sea dragon....

The morning started out at Doc and Mr. Von's cabin where delicious eggs mixed with sausage was served to us. Afterwards we went straight to the Sea Dragon to begin our journey. Both of our dives today were dedicated to working on our project. Our project is determining if a greater diversity in coral, specifically elkhorn, staghorn, and brain,...

Day 3, Day 3 started at 6:20 to the sound of a chicken outside of our cabin. After gearing up for the day and lathering up in sunscreen, everyone headed over to the chaperones house, Hibiscus. I enjoyed a honey bun, some juice, and a blueberry yogurt, overall a very satisfying breakfast. After, breakfast we were driven by Glenn (the...

7/13/16         Today was another early start. We started off with having breakfast at Doc's cabin and then Glen came and drove us to the marina. I had two dives today and both were in the same location of Cooper Island. Both lasted about an hour. On each dive we looked for a location with Black Sea urchins...

This first day of the marine biology trip has already exceeded all of my expectations and has really struck somewhat of a driving excitement for the days to come. We woke around 6:00 a.m to the sound of a large golden rooster performing his daily, and quite annoying, ritual. My cabin and I hurriedly showered and dressed appropriately for...