2016

The third day of our trip was yet again, another fantastic day on the island. The early morning wake up call and early breakfast at mango house was a great start to the morning. We ate cereal, muffins, and honey buns. After breakfast we headed down to our boats to begin our day of dives. The two dives for...

In the BVI today we began gathering data for our research projects. We did this on two dives today. My project revolves around the type of habitats that squirrel fish prefer. On each dive we planned to find two areas one with a lot of live coral and one with little live coral and then mark these areas...

Today marked the first day of our research dives, which we had spent the last few weeks preparing for. In addition to providing important data for our projects, today's dives featured a number of remarkable sightings, including but not limited to sand divers (a type of lizardfish,) a queen angelfish, gray angelfish, a spotted moray eel, a massive scrawled...

Today once again started at 6:20, and, after hitting the sleep button once, our group woke up to prepare breakfast for the other students and teachers. Little preparation was required; however, as the meal consisted of yogurt, muffins, and cereal. Thirty minutes after break we took our open-air bus to the harbor for the experiment dives. Our original destination...

We began the day with my cabin, Mango, making a delicious homemade breakfast for the rest of the group and the chaperones. After finishing, we headed to the boat to prepare for our experiment dives and once we got the scheduled site we came across too strong of a current and had to move to another site. We moved...

For me, today didn't go so good. After breakfast at the Mango cabin, we got on the taxi and drove to the marina to board the boat. When we got to our destination in the ocean, we got our gear together to start our project. Once we geared up, we jumped in the water and began to descend. All...

Today the real work began. We set bright and early to begin our first research dive. Aiming for George Dog Island, we ended up diving at a different spot due to a vicious current. We ended up staying under for about 50 minutes because we were diving in shallower water, about 25 feet. During the dive, we quickly found...

Today we woke up at 6:20 for our turn to serve breakfast. We had tons of Frosted Flakes and plenty of muffins. After a brief lunch we met our dive leader for a dive briefing at the marina. After we got our plan set we arrived at 3 different dive locations until we found one without a strong current....

     Today was action packed and I had a great time. We started the day serving breakfast at our cabin while enjoying an amazing view of the ocean. Next we hit the ocean in our boat to record data for our experiments. When we went down, we set up a perimeter and began counting fish in our zone....