2018

Arriving at Kona we were greeted with a warm welcome and beautiful sites. My favorite part of today was finding a lychee tree and going on a small adventure to get the fruit. We went to find a large stick with which we knocked down some fruit and ate it. This reminded me of my grandma who has a...

I am very excited to study marine biology in Hawaii. I have only done one previous dive without an instructor with my friend Zach, but I am very excited to get better at the skill. I am also very excited to dive at Cook's Point. I have been snorkelling there, but I was pretty confined to a depth of around...

Like any other morning I woke up to an amazing breakfast and prepared for the day. I put on swimming shorts and packed my scuba gear. We began the day by heading to captain zodiac. My first specific topic is over the zodiac boat which can hit 90 mph. The boat is said to be as "untippable" as a...

Thursday 26, 2018 Our day consisted of hoardings a Zodiac boat and diving at night to see some Manta Rays. The Zodiac boat was a small rubber boat with two twin propellers, allowing it to cover a lot of ground in no time. This boat took us out to the Pelagic Zone of the ocean, thousands of feet deep, allowing...

We started off today with a two tank dive. I saw many of the reef fish we talked about in class: raccoon fish, saddle wrasse, moorish idols, and parrot fish. I also saw three octopi and a green sea turtle. I identified the green turtle from the shell. We also a saw a frog fish on a rock and...

I'm looking forward to spending some time on the big island this summer. Last year in Virgin Gorda, I had so much fun on my dives and snorkels that I have decided to come back for another round. This year I think I am most excited for our dive with manta rays and the black water dive. While I have...

We started off the day with our first dive, a 2-tank dive, in the trip starting where we dove at Suck Em Up and then Kaloko. During our first dive at Suck Em Up, we had a 50 minute dive in the clearest water I have ever been in. Since the water was so clear, our dive group was...

To begin the first full day our trip, our group set off to the Hawaii Ocean Science & Technology to explore various Hawaiian companies that our harness varying temperatures of ocean water to help expand their startup pursuits. First, we visited the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii to learn about how the authority uses both shallow and deep-water pipelines...

{Blog for Saturday, July 28th, so it will be in the present tense} We had some time to sleep in this morning. After we all woke up, changed, and ate breakfast, we headed to a beautiful beach to clean it up. We started off picking up trash. I really liked cleaning up the beach, and as a plus, I saw...