2016

Day three, like the previous mornings, started bright and early. We met at Mango house for a feast consisting heavily of cereals and muffins. Next, Dr. Shannon Gore briefed us on sea turtle basics and how to properly catch them. I was quite surprised to learn that not all sea turtle species are critically endangered and in fact some...

On July 3rd I painfully woke up at 3:55 AM for the 7:05 flight through American Airlines. Outside of my morning ritual, I said goodbye to my close friends due to the lack of cellular connection in the area of our stay and hurriedly packed my small backpack with a book, my class folder, iPad, a change of clothes,...

Day 6, Today was yet another beautiful sunny day in Virgin Gorda. The day started off a little later than usual at 6:50am because I decided to get a couple more minutes of rest, before our long and exciting day. Breakfast was the usual cereal, honey buns, yogurt, and fruit. Lime hosted it today and it was a good way...

On our itinerary, today was marked "fun day." It was certainly labeled appropriately, as we experienced all sorts of adventure and amusement, like diving on shipwrecks and snorkeling on turtle grass. Originally, the plan was to do two dives on the wreckage of the R.M.S Rhone, which sank in a hurricane on 29 October, 1867. Unfortunately, the current at...

Hello, my name is Joe Summers, today is the final day of our in-class portion of the Jesuit Marine Biology course. My visit to the British Virgin Islands will occupy the first week of scheduled travel; the two to my left in the picture below, Luke Lewis and Anthony Fischer, will accompany me as a part of my lab...

Waking up this morning, I was filled with excitement over the fact that I was going to dive again today. I drank my morning cup of tea, ate breakfast at the Plum cabin, and rushed down to the taxi where Glenn, our driver, awaited. Our first dive took place at Bronco Billy. This dive site is called Bronco Billy...

July 14 Today we woke up at 6:30 and prepared for turtle tagging and snorkeling in Savannah bay looking at invertebrates. For breakfast we went to Mango cabin for breakfast and then we went to the media room for a presentation on sea turtles from Dr. Shannon Gore. She told us about the lifecycle of a turtle, the threat level...

Our day started off with Jasmine serving us breakfast. Their cabin was all of the marine two guys and their cabin was much better than ours. I guess it is fair since this is their second year, but it was significant. Furthermore, Doc got us really big donuts for an addition to our breakfast. So today I had a...

Although this is technicallythe blog for my fith day in the BVI, today's entry begins in day four, with the night snorkel. After dinner, we donned our fins and snorkels Ana waded out into the ocean with waterproof flashlights. We saw hordes of small fish and large silvery tarpin that wanted to eat them, strangely shaped slipper lobsters, and...