2016

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...

Today begin with breakfast at the mango cabin. We had muffins and cereal, and I tried some guava juice with it. Afterwards, we took the taxi to the boats, I boarded Sea Monkey, and we parted ways to different dive sites. Our first dive was hectic. On the surface, we spotted a stingray, but it was gone when we descended....

After a full day of travel and a few hours of sleep we were greeted by the sound of roosters. We headed down to get on the bus to go get fresh omelets down by the marina. After being introduced to all of the dive staff we broke up into our dive groups. We boarded the sea dragon and...

This morning was again hard to get up from everything we had done prior to the day. W evoke up and went to the Lime Cabin where they served us a cereal breakfast with Greek yogurt and oranges. We then got on the bus and headed down to the docks. Once out on the boats, we had two dives...

My name is Sullivan Curry. I will be going to the BVI for the second time after I went last year. I am excited to dive and see all of the exotic fish, coral, and more.

My name is Luke Gleason. I am in the Jesuit class of 2018. This trip will be my first time diving other than my ceritifcation. The project I am working on while in the BVI is about fire coral and how herbivores use it for protection.

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,...

Today was we met our diving instructors and set off in the boats to start our day. We ate breakfast at the restaurant next to the harbor. After Casey gave us a briefing on what we would be doing today. We got out on the boats and set off. We headed to these islands that are known as the...

We started our day by eating breakfast in mango cabin. Then we got on Glen's taxi and headed to the marina. All of our dives today were scheduled to be research dives and we went out to do our dives. The first two locations we went to had a strong current so we couldn't dive them but the third...