2017

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, we were in charge of breakfast so we set that out for the others. After breakfast, we hopped on a ride with Glen to the harbor....

Today was our second day of diving and our first day of project dives. Our project is to measure the relationship between the length of the diameter of a barrel sponge and the speed the sponge filters water. Before we left the dock, our dive instructor, Beth, and our group went over our materials for the dive. We brought...

Today was our second day of diving and our first day of project dives. Our project is to measure the relationship between the length of the diameter of a barrel sponge and the speed the sponge filters water. Before we left the dock, our dive instructor, Beth, and our group went over our materials for the dive. We brought...

The second day we started bright and early at 7:20. We went down to the senior's cabin to enjoy a hard cooked meal of cereal, granola bars, and yogurt. We spent the rest of the next 6 hours diving at, Ginger Island in the back and front. Our group saw two sharks and kept count of a few species...

Another early morning began with the cries of the roosters which roam the resort. Our fellow Seniors volunteered to serve breakfast to all of us to fuel our busy mornings full of research. Today we would begin our project dives, and my group was to find out if the diameter of a barrel sponge has any direct impact on...

We began our day with our project dives. Sam, Caleb and I observed cleaning stations to determine how often parrot fish visit the stations compared to other fish species.  We predicted that they would visit the stations less often because a bubble of mucus it creates around its self at night, which prevents parasites from getting to them. After...

Now that I'm finally feeling settled in, i feel much more comfortable diving, especially when diving with sharks, yes, you read that correctly, sharks, reef sharks more specifically, while we were diving, we were doing our experiment and BAM! 2 reef sharks began circling the dive site, and I kept my calm... for the most part, I remember at...

I think that today was a incredible day... our first project dive we got absolutely nothing done due to the fact that we saw 3 reef sharks swimming around us the whole time and our eyes were completely attracted to them and in shook at too how close they would get up to our face without being scared in...

Synopsis From waking up on a cabin without an air conditioning system to diving 30 feet underwater to explore new species of fish and coral, the first day in the island of Virgin Gorda in the British Virgin Islands has been a wholesome introduction to what I'm expecting from this trip. Compared to the beaches in Texas, the Gulf of...