2019

Last dives. For our last day in the Grand Cayman we dove in the Trinity Caves and the Chain Reef. The Trinity Caves consisted of a large, narrow canyons that formed a large U that we dove through. As we descended and began to enter the canyon, a huge Green Sea Turtle crossed our field of vision. Unfortunately this...

Today was our last day out in the Cayman Islands and we dove 2 sites the first called Trinity Caves which was another amazing wall dive that looked out into the blue and a shallow dive called Chain Reef named after the anchor chain that covers the reef. Of the two dives I would have the say...

This trip has been nothing shy of incredible. Building new relationships with an amazing group of people has really helped me become more comfortable and more open with others, which has made this trip an extra special opportunity. I really like this group of people, both the teachers and the students. Each person has unique and special characteristics. Hanging...

Our second to last day of diving began like it normally does, but this time our dive sites were farther than the previous days. We were going to be diving two shipwrecks, the Doc Poulson and the Kittiwake. We arrived on site and jumped into the water excited to see the giant ship. The first thing we noticed was...

Today we dove two reck dives, one being the kittiwake. The kittiwake is a 251 ft rescue ship for submarines in the navy. This ship did not have that much marine life on it because it was moved during a hurricane in 2017 killing most of the reef that had grown on it. There was however a ton of...

Today we went on 2 wreck dives! The first dive was the wreck of the Kittiwake, an old submarine rescue vessel. It was in service from 1945-1994, and during that time it rescued a grand total of zero submarines. It did however manage to sink one, even if it was a friendly vessel at the dock...

Today started out with the rooster alarm clock followed by eggs and hash browns for breakfast. The agenda for today was two wreck sites (submerged boats for snorkeling and diving) and a beach cleanup! The first wreck site was of the USS Kittiwake. The United States Navy ship was a submarine rescue vessel in active duty from 1946 to 1994....

Today was finally the day I could scratch off an item in the bucket list, which was ship wreck diving. I have seen many videos about outrageously sized fish lurking inside the ships so I wasn't very keen on cruising through a ship. This was also going to be the first dive I will film as Matthew let me...

Todays dives were crazy. I never thought I would get a chance to dive a shipwreck. On our first dive we swam through a ship called the Kittiwake. Once a ship in the US Navy, it was designed to rescue submarines and was in commission from 1946 to 1994. It actually picked up Buzz Aldrin after one...