BVI 2016: Day 5

Today was a very fun day. We went out to one of the coolest dive sites that we saw on our trip. We went to a ship wreck that was overtaken by coral. The wreck ship was called the Rhone. The shop was built in 1865 and was declared unsinkable. It was one of the first ships to be...

Day 2

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 6

Day 6, Today we ur where able to sleep in an extra 30 minutes because breakfast wasn't until 7:30 at jasmine cabin the last of they'd cabins. At breakfast Doc bought us all Giant Donuts that we the size of plate. After breakfast, the group went to do community service with Casey and Jeff on the beach. The service was...

July 15

July 15 Today we woke up at 6:30 and set out breakfast for everyone. We then went to Ginger island to work on our projects. We dove for about 45 minutes and saw a black tipped reef shark and a nurse shark. The reef shark was quite curious and a little while after it swam away, it returned and circled...

BVI 2016: Day 2

Today we began our day at Doc's cabin and had breakfast. We talked about our goal for the day once we got to the boats to meet up with Casey and the other diving instructors. We worked on our projects and ran our first series of tests. My group was responsible for observing how many kinds of fish species...

Final day on the island…

Today started off with giant donuts that Doc brought to our cabin for breakfast. We then got on the taxi and made our way to our service site where we would be cleaning the beach of all plastics and debris. The beach was located right in front of the water desalination plant, so they wanted the beach and water...

Day 5 on the island

We woke up today at 6:30 and ate breakfast at 7:15 at one of the cabins as usual. We then took the taxi to the marina and headed out to dive the famous RMS Rhone that sunk in 1867. It is famous because it was one of the first ships to be declared "unsinkable" just like the Titanic... Anyone...

BVI 2016: Day 4

Today we started out eating breakfast in the mango cabin. After breakfast we headed to the marina to start our second project dive. Before my group had tested one trial that was deemed irrelevant and claiming too many variables. So we decided to repeat the trial but keeping within controlled variables, matching to the other two. After we finished...

Day 2 on the island

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...