2016

     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 was a great start to the week. We started off the day by waking up at 6:00 am. We then had a very good breakfast at a restaurant by the boats. We had a nice boat ride to our first dive site despite my hat flying off into the ocean. Our first dive, at George Dog, was a...

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...

Day two started with another early morning. Our new rooster friend, who we properly named "Chapo", woke us up around 6:10 a.m. We quickly showered, dressed appropriately for another long day out on the water, and made our way to chaperones cabin for breakfast. After our buffet of eggs, bagels, yogurt, and some delicious fruit, we rushed down the...

7/14/16       Today my cabin hosted breakfast which consisted of cereal, yogurt, muffins, and fruit. Before breakfast however a couple of chickens took interest in us and walked around our porch with us. After breakfast we met Dr. Gore from ARK to give us a presentation about sea turtles and how to catch and tag one since that...

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...

Today began yet again with a beautiful view and breakfast at a cabin. After this, we headed down to the marina and set out gear up. We had three dives scheduled for the day. Our first dove was at a site called "Ginger's Backside". This was a gorgeous dive where we took data for our research project. We saw...

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...

My name is Mike Ponder, I am every excit for the trip to the BVI. I am most excit to get back into the water and dive again. I've been certified since 2013.