2016

Day 6 was yet another incredible day in the BVIs even though it was our last :(. Day 5 ended with a night snorkel that was very cool. On the snorkel, we saw several tarpon, lobster, and squid. The squid was made up of a unique purple and green color in the night which was a strong difference from...

Today's activities were turtle tagging, studying invertabrets, and a team challenge on the beach. We started with a lecture over turtle biology and populations all over the world by Dr. Shannon Gore, a Dallas native who used to live just a few miles from Jesuit. We learned how the practices of turtle hunting, regulation, and egg collection positively and...

July 12-13         It all started July the 12th at 5 am. I arrived at the airport with my white Mexico hat and my required light blue marine biology shirt. I went towards our group with my dad who drove me. Before I knew it I was on the plane. We arrived at Puerto Rico where...

July 11 I woke up at about 3:15, took a shower and got ready for a series of long flights. Our fist flight was four and a half hours long to San Juan Puerto Rico. There was a five hour layover there and we ate Domino's for a ridiculous price, and our flight was delayed 50 minutes. It was a...

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....

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...

Our final day in the BVI started when we got up at 7:00 this morning. We had breakfast at 7:30 and loaded up to leave on the bus at 8:30 this morning. We headed over towards the other side of the island where the desalination plant was located. Today was the day we were doing our service project, and...

 Jim Hayden -  We started off the day by waking up at 6:40 A.M and getting our stuff together and getting ready for the day. Today the Lime cabin had everyone over for breakfast. After breakfast Doc briefed us on the day ahead of us, and then Glen took us to the marina. Ben drove us about 45 minutes out...

The second day in the BVI continued to bring many adventures and excitement. After breakfast at the teacher's cabin and a presentation on the history of sea turtles, we headed to the marina to load up the boat. We then headed to Little Dix Bay in order to try and catch and tag a sea turtle. After chasing a...