Captain’s Log 003: July 17, 2017
The morning of the 17th began with a brilliantly served breakfast by our neighbors in the Plum Tree cabin. We talked, ate, and got bitten by plenty of mosquitoes. We then rode down to the Sea Dragon and began preparing for our research for the day. Our first dive site was a return to George Dog Island where we...
Third Day of Diving
The third day on the island was full of surprises and many fun events. The first of these fun events was our first dive of the day which was a return to the chimney. While the chimney was fun the first day on the island, today's dive to the underwater paradise was much more oriented towards our project. The...
Nature is lit
I just got back from a night dive and man, that was spooky, but before that let's recap the dives, well to start off, we finished our data collection for our project, and after that our group decided to do some exploring in the chimney, to be met with tons of sergeant major and yellow striped grunt, then we...
3rd day in bVi
We went to the chimney and bronco billy today to work on our projects. Saw a lot of the same fish that we saw yesterday. I did see how bad the coral bleaching had pRogressed in the BVI. It was very disheartening and sad to see. Today the jellyfish decided to team up on me and travel in packs...
Day 3 Blog
Today we finally finished our project dives! On the first dive we found a reef that was partly healthy reef. The parts of the reef that were healthy had a small bit of algae at the base of the coral. The reason that the healthy coral has algae at the base is because algae uses sunlight and converts it...
Blog post day 3
Day 3 we finished out last project dives. We went too bronco billy and my favorite spot the chimney too find the relationship between coral and algae. We got too see some great fish as well and we got too see a moray eel. Being underwater with all the fish and wildlife is completely breath taking and makes you...
Day three
The morning started off with an alarm on my iPhone of Apple's "night owl" ringtone at 7:20. Immediately afterwards, I hopped out of my bed and got dressed for a diving. Today, lime house was in charge of breakfast. I did not eat very much, however, because of yesterday's sea sickness. After breakfast, we went down and took...
Blog Day 2 (7/16/17)
Today was full of ups and downs. First we went to Ginger steps and dove down. A lot of people on my boat, the Sea Monkey, got sick before the dive due to how wavy it was out on the water. Luckily I was not one of those people, and I got to go down and explore, where we...
Day 2 (07/17/17)
Today got off to a rocky start after forgetting to take my sea sickness medication. We geared up for our first dive shortly after eating a rocky breakfast crafted by the seniors, then set off for our first dive site. Today's dives were focused on our research projects which created tons of excitement. Our group, the "Children of the...