2017

The star of day 3 in the BVI, the soreness starts to set in. After four hard dives and some snorkels, the more sleep we need. We woke up and walked to the Mango Cabin to have more cereal and listen to the day's plan. Then we went to finish our research dive in the morning. We went down...

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...

Today was a lot of fun while being very exhausting. We started off the day by waking up very early and then going to practice. The boat ride over to the dive sites was very short yet thrilling and exciting at the same time. When I first was gearing up I was very nervous until we started and I...

Today I woke up early and had cereal and eggs for breakfast. After breakfast we had two dives for our research project. My group and I's first dive was at gingers backside. My group found four cleaning stations as we split up in pairs and watched two each. I watched the pederson shrimp cleaning station first and then watched...

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...

Synopsis Once again I headed to the same location near Ginger Island. This time, my case study group and I agreed to retreive different information about the less healthy coral because we thought yesterday's data may have been wrong due to the fact that there were traces of healthier coral surrounding the specimen. After we had lunch, all the cabins...

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...

Our last day in the British Virgin Islands has been another fun and engaging day. We started the day off by preparing breakfast with my project group. I spiced things up a little bit by making eggs that were thoughtfully donated to me by Eduardo. After we had a successful breakfast, we got ready to leave at 8:40 for...

Today was my first official dive in the British Virgin Islands. We explored a large collection of coral reefs near the Dog Islands. Our dive instructors told us about how many of the natives thought the island was filled with rabid dogs. Upon further exploration however, the island was found to be a habitat for Monk Seals. Sadly, these...