2016

Today was another great day in the British Virgin Islands. Today in the morning my boat went to do invertebrate studies while the other boat went to do turtle tagging. For invertebrate studies we went to Savannah Bay beach. This beach had perfectly clear water and reefs just right of the shoreline. We saw lettuce sea slugs, rock boaring...

Today set the bar high for the rest if the trip. First, we got up to see an informative presentation on sea turtle conservation. We then split off into our boat groups; while one boat went to try and tag sea turtles, we went down to the shore to learn about reef invertebrates. After snorkeling for a bit, I...

Day 5,  Today was another great day on beautiful Virgin Gorda. My day started at 6:20am yet again, but today was Plum's house to prepare breakfast. All we had to do was set out the muffins, honey buns, fruit and cereal that were provided to us by Casey. I decided to be creative and formed the cereal boxes in such...

     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....

Today we woke up and ate another muffin breakfast. We boarded our bus to head down to the marina. We washed off our scuba gear loaded 3 tanks for the day and head off to our first dive site. At the first dive site we conducted our final two research experiments and was greeted by a 4 foot long...

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 we started with breakfast in Plum cabin. We then went to the docks to prepare for the long day ahead of us. As we got to the boat, I learned that today would be a three dive day. Two dives before lunch and one after lunch would be very tiresome. Our first dive was when my group was...

Today we woke up around 6:30, ate breakfast, then went diving. Today we did our project dives. In the morning it was very cloudy and looked like it might rain. The water was very choppy and our boat had trouble finding a dive site without too much current. We finally stopped at a dive site for our project dive....

On day two at the British Virgin Islands, we began the day with a presentation of sea turtles and how to tag them. During the presentation presented by Shannon Gore, I got to learn more about sea turtles, where they go, and how they are becoming endangered. The presentation was very insightful and because of the presentation I got...