2018

Today was the beginning of the first Jesuit Marine Biology trip to Hawaii. After waking up at a crisp 4:00 am, I arrived with the rest of the team, besides JJ, at 5:45 to move through security and get onto the plane at 7:30. After stopping in San Francisco, we continued our journey to Kona. Rising from my nap,...

Today was our sixth day in Hawaii, and we had another great day! We began our day be waking up later than usual, leaving at around 8:30. My group, the pyrosomes, had to pack a lunch, since we weren't coming back to the house to eat lunch, since we were doing the hike after. We first went to the...

This morning I woke up at 4:45 to go to the airport. After I continued to fall back asleep, I finally made it to the car and went to the airport. At the airport, once JJ arrived, we had an easy flight to San Francisco and then to Hawai'i (I slept a lot during the flight). Hawai'i was much...

Day three started off much earlier compared to yesterday, 6:30 a.m. to be exact. After a swift continental breakfast, we dashed off to the harbor to hop on the dive boats and get ready to head out on the water. After safety briefings and introductions, we headed out to our first dive location. Upon arrival, unfortunately, the currents were...

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...

I am most excited about seeing sea turtles in the wild and seeing cetaceans, if possible. I am also excited to get some diving experience.

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...

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 the day with a service project which our efforts resulted in us on the front page of the local newspaper. We dug sand out of an old pond which was destroyed by a tsunami. We dug the sand out a pool which would be fresh and salt water and also the home to endemic shrimp. With...