Location: Sommer's Beach, Tortola
All is well on Soul Rebel Day 13, and I am your skipper today. Noah Berg is the name. The day started early this morning at 6:30 when all the guys did their first of many free diving lessons with our skipper Joe. Joe is a freediving instructor with IDA and helped all the guys get their breath holds over 1 min. Garret and I both reached breath holds of over 2 min and 40 seconds. After a few rounds of breathing Joe was called away to move the boat to our first dive site. While we were sailing our cooks today, Paul and Derek started breakfast. This morning we enjoyed cinnamon muffins and scrambled eggs. The last time we were in town, our bud Logan picked up some bacon, and he decided to cook it for us as a morning treat. After filling the tanks and doing the dishes, we arrived at our first dive site. We got our briefing and found out that we were going to practice our transect laying skills. (A transect is a large tape measure we unroll and lay on the seafloor. Along a transect, we can count the occurrences of an object like plants or animals.) After our dive, we hung out for a while and made our lunch. On the menu was cheddar broccoli soup, with a side helping of pbandj.
Proceeding lunch, we broke into our research groups and had to make a choice. Some of us went on a dive, and some of us stayed on board and started writing our research papers. The people who went on the dive were Paul, Logan, Derek, Mira, and Anya, while the rest of us (Garret, Tessa, Rachel, and Maya) stayed on the boat. Upon finishing the second dive, I took a 3rd nap while the rest of the crew tanned and worked on some homework. With the day starting to come to an end, the crew went and dressed ourselves up and got ready for our second beach BBQ!!! We left at 5:30 and did everything from talking and even tackle football. In other news, the cabin is starting to stink up. I do not know how well-versed you all are in our current egg war, but our 180 unrefrigerated eggs are starting to smell BAD!!! Tomorrow is the day, though, when we have four boats all loaded with close to 200 eggs, each ready to attack. Do not miss tomorrow’s log. With that, I will wish you all a good night or a good day, depending on where you are. Just about a week left, so this will be the last time you hear from me, so I wish you all the best. Thank you for taking the time to read this.
Noah Berg