2017

Starting the morning off with another refreshing, ice-cold shower, I had another slice of pizza and Apple Jacks. After retrieving our gear, we left the huts to go to the boats. Next, we left to go to the first dive site at the backside of Ginger Island. When I originally jumped in my secondary regulator started spewing...

Nicholas, SlaytonThis morning, we went to Plum house for breakfast, which was the same as ever, Kellogg's cereal with milk, and tropical juice that consisted of bananas, apples, and other fruits. After breakfast, all the students went to the Dive BVI shop, where we split into the same two boats. We put on our equipment onto the boat and...

Nicholas Slayton, Last night, I didn't get much sleep, so in the morning, I was quite tired. After breakfast, the group went down to the Dive BVI shop, and got kitted out for our two dives. On our boat, there was Mr. Vonn, Mr. Zoltan, Ms. Tara, and Ms. Becca, as well as my group, Trip, Tyler, and Matthew, along...

After a quick breakfast at the plum tree house, and a discussion with my research team, I was ready to head out to explore the BVI and develop relationships with my Jesuit brothers. The lead up to the dive site was just like yesterday except for our new equipment. Zoltan gave us lines that we marked off at...

Last night, I went to bed with high hopes and expectations for the second full day of the trip, but nothing could have prepared me for what I experienced today. Breakfast was fairly pedestrian, and consisted of fruit loops, fruit juice, and granola bars, but it would turn out to be the only pedestrian aspect of the day. After...

Today my phone was dead for most of the day my phone had no charge so I couldn't take pictures, but, we had a very interesting day, particularly for the marine 2 class. We went down to ginger island and on the way saw dolphins jumping near us while we were on the boat. After going down we saw...

Today was another long day but we got to sleep in a little and go to bed pretty early. My day started with waking up and preparing breakfast for my other cabin mates which consisted of cereal, nature bars, and honey buns. After preparing breakfast we ate and then took our taxi down to the dock where we loaded...

Today started off strange, we woke up sore, but with no rooster screeching at 6:45. So we slept in a little bit and then headed over to breakfast at the Plum Cabin. Then we set out to do our first two dive for our research project. Our project is comparing the difference between parrotfish and grouper at feeding stations....

Today can only be described as amazing. The day started with our group heading to gingers hole(dive sight) to start our project dives. We are trying to test and see if certain fish visit cleaning stations more than others. The first dive was more than just work too, we swam with sharks and also saw dolphins on the way...