2017

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...

Today is the last day, and I'm not really sure how I feel about that, I'm feeling happy, but also sad, let's recap the day and maybe it will allow me to feel my emotions better, so i woke up and everyone picked at the last remaining scraps of breakfast food, and by scraps it meant superfluous amounts of...

This morning it was our cabin's turn to serve breakfast. This means we get to wake up early and set up breakfast for the rest of the guys. After that ordeal was done we were ready to set out for the rest of our action packed day.  Our first dive was at Mountain Point which gets its name from...

At the beginning of the third day, I enjoyed eggs for the first time in a few days. The first dive of the day was at Great Dogs island. Our habitat that we roped off consisted of one stoplight parrotfish, a few rainbow parrotfish, and one or two rainbow parrotfish that presented me with some of the most vivid...

Today began very early, as the members of my cabin (The Glorious Lime House) were tasked with providing breakfast for the other people on the trip. To celebrate our mind-blowing awesomeness, we made the cereal boxes spell out "lime time," which did not attract as much recognition as it deserved. Unlike the previous 3 days, today did not feature...

Synopsis I started off the day by heading down to my group's boat, the Sea Dragon, to sail to Little Dix's Bay and try to catch sea turtles with Dr. Gore, a turtle biologist who worked with A.R.K. (The Association of Reef Keepers). Even though I only spotted two green sea turtles, one near Mount Trunk and the other one...

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...

After the usual 7:45 a.m. breakfast, today started off different in a sense that we headed to the wifi room for a presentation after rather then hopping in the taxi to go to the marina. Today we received a presentation by Dr. Gore, who works for ARK, a marine conversation company. She gave us background on the evolution of...

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...