2017

This morning, I was awakened by the annoyingly loud screech of a rooster. While under ordinary circumstances I would be none too thrilled about this premature start to the day, but due to the island's outstanding beauty, I relished the opportunity to soak in as much as possible. We promptly ate breakfast and made our way to the marina,...

July 23 - I do not know how to start this, so I am just gonna start with the trip to our first dive site, Bronco Billy. After gearing up, my group, the Mangoes consisting of myself, Tyler Ochs, Trip Hatton, and Nick Slayton, entered the water. Now if anyone reading has ever looked in Texas water, it is...

This morning I ate scrambled eggs, mixed berry Greek yogurt and and drank lots of water to properly prepare for the day. After breakfast we gathered our BCDs, tanks and regulators and were assigned our boats; mine was the Sea Dragon. I set up my gear and became acquainted with my Hungarian dive master, Zoltan. We set out to...

Hi, for all of you who do not know me my name is Garrett Tarango and I am currently a rising junior at Jesuit High school in Dallas Texas. If you are reading this, you probably already know that I am writing about my school trip to the British Virgin Islands. Despite this only being my full first day...

To begin our trip after a long and tiring day of traveling on Saturday, we had a great breakfast of eggs, cliff bars, and yogurt to prepare for our dives. After we listened information about the resort we are staying at, the Guavaberry Spring Bay Resort, we rode down to the dock with our taxi driver Glenn. We were...

The 23rd day of July is the first full day that I was in the BVI, I woke up in a twin size bed that is placed in a room that has no AC. I walked with the Mangoes to the teachers cabin to have breakfast, after eating we got to the boats and set up the supplies...

Taking a giant stride off the boat, I immediately regained the lost knowledge of scuba diving. Descending into the cooling water, we (Garrett, Johnathon, Cole, and I) looked around at the coral and fish. After a bit of swimming we found a sandy area to kneel down and practice some essential scuba skills. After we finished...

Our first day in the British Virgin Islands started off with a great breakfast prepared by our teachers. We got all of the important nutrients we needed before heading off to our first two dives of the trip. After getting all of our gear set up and ready to go, my team and I boarded the Sea Monkey and...

Today was my first day back in paradise and we picked up right where we left off. The morning started early with the same breakfast we will eat all week (exciting) cereal, granola bars and juice. After breakfast we went out to our first dive at Bronco Billy and the water was amazing and perfectly clear. The first dive...