2019

After breakfast and our boat ride, we hopped into the water at our first dive site, little tunnels. On this dive I did not see any new species but when we descended I was greeted by thousands of garden eels stream hung across the horizon. This dive was on "the wall" meaning one can look out into the distance...

Today after waking up and going to check the equipment we headed out to the boats for the daily two tank dive. Our first site was deep, usually with us between 100 and 60 feet. Because our first dive was so deep on our second dive we stayed at about 60 feet. On both dives we got really lucky...

Today we went on 2 more reef dives! The first location was a dive site known as “Little Tunnel.” It was along the reef wall, facing the ocean. It gets its name from a tunnel that runs from the top of the coral shelf down to the side of the wall. I descended with my...

Shout out to my roommate Greg for being my alarm once again as I woke up at 7:20 this morning. With the boat leaving at 7:45, you already know the rushed routine I went through to catch up and get ready. I especially didn't want to miss the dives today as there was another pipeline to explore. After a...

Today was very relaxing. Our first dive was in a different spot over the same wall that we dove yesterday. Once again, it was beautiful. The water is a little bit darker 80 feet down. Everything seems saturated in a deep blue. On deep dives, the visibility can dramatically change. Most of the fish I saw were...

The rooster. The day started with the natural morning alarm and all the exhaustion from diving and activities hit me. I was tired and drowsy, but I still threw a pillow at my heavy sleeper roommate and got some breakfast. Today's agenda had two more dives for us. The first dive was on the wall. This time, after a stern...

Fifth day in the Cayman Islands is complete! Fun day if dives followed by a relaxed afternoon. We had another really deep dive to around 100 feet again today and it was super fun. We went through a big tunnel and it was super cool to see the variety of coral within it. On this dive, I saw my...

This morning I was slow to get out of bed because of the long day of diving we had the day before. I went down to breakfast and found that I wasn't the only one feeling this way. Everyone was more silent today than normal, and it seemed like jumping into the water could be our only way to...

The day started with our first dive being at a sight called little tunnel, the previous sight from yesterday's dive that had the large "towers" made of corral with caverns was named big tunnels and as the name implied this site was similar but with smaller with smaller caverns and at not as great a depth. As we descended...