“If I was given the opportunity to go on this trip all over again, I would pick up the opportunity in a heart beat.”

Heavy hits are the worst of the worst. They turn of your air rip your regulator out and tangle them take your mask off, undo the BCD buckles, and other issues.

At first the idea of diving with full face masks terrified me. I was comfortable diving with a normal regulator and mask, as I'd been doing so for 3 years. So many problems came into my head. What if water started leaking into the mask and I couldn't get air? What if...

Brain corals can grow to over six feet in diameter. I saw this for myself treating diseased coral in St. Croix this summer. The trip started at two in the morning at the airport where we made our way to the U.S. Virgin Islands. We arrived at Camp Howard where we...

During the 2024 St Croix summer trip we did a handful of fish surveys and benthic dives. We did these dives to collect data for our science projects and to input it into the REEF database. To do our fish and benthic dives we all had to wake up between 6-8 in the...