2017

Day 4 in the BVI and it was our time to make breakfast, which turned out great. After breakfast,  we went down to the docks and went on our first snorkel of the day at Mango Bay We went to a small beach on the island and looked for invertebrates in the shallow water. We found small sea pearls...

Today we started off the day by breakfast at our cabin. I woke up early, so I spent an hour or two on the hammock relaxing. Breakfast was good, and we then packed up our gear and were ready for Glen at 8:15. After a 20 minute ride, we arrived at our first dive site located near Ginger's Backside....

The day had finally come for the wreck dive. I woke up early and got all my stuff ready in preparation of the inevitable order to pack up tomorrow. I arrived to breakfast starving so I had 3 bowls of cereal with some juice and the group loaded up into the truck to head to the marine for our...

Even though this is blog 6 I am writing this on our travel back home. On our last full day the teachers held breakfast outside of their cabin. Instead of the routine of afterwards heading to the docks, we headed to the main school on the island. For our service project, we were tasked with remodeling part of the school...

After waking up to the sounds of roosters and eating a hardy breakfast, my friends and the crew of the Sea Dragon set out to our first dive site, George Dog Island. Our instructors began our trip with a quick warmup and introduction dive in order for all of us to become acquainted with our surroundings and gear. We...

Today I woke up and went to the Lime cabin to have breakfest which was the same meal as every other day.  Then we went to a beach with the Sea Dragon boat people to find invertebrates,  Dawson found a conk shell with an octopus inside of it and everyone else found a ton of other things like a...

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...

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...

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...