Good to see some visitors that are responsible divers with good form and buoyancy underwater. So many times I see dive tourists crashing into the reefs, breaking soft coral to get 'the shot', etc. Wish we had more good divers like these folks. You are more than welcome back.
My son and did Bonaire back in 2022, stayed at Dive Buddy resort, was incredible, walk right from the beach into the ocean with full dive gear and descend down to the reef. Multiple reefs to dive. Salt pier was great.
Beautiful video! I would love to see more (yes, I'll check out your channel and see what else you've got) but without all of the back and forth between divers and reef/fish. I know, everybody's a critic. I'm not really! It just takes a person out of the zone if they are trying to meditate to it. It won't be much longer before video's like these will be all that remains of the reefs so I am very grateful folks like yourselves share like this. Thank you!
Incredible video! Thank you for posting. I’m going to Bonaire for my first time and b-day in July’24. We are staying at Plaza Vander Velk. I’m also decked out in pink like one of your fellow divers. Team Pink! 🧜♀️💖
Haha! I spent my July birthday in '22 and '23 in Bonaire at Plaza Beach and Dive Resort. This year, I was there after my birthday in July and just got back a week ago from 2 weeks there. Love the place, the people and the diving.
Be careful. Bonaire is highly addictive. I went for the 1st time in July '22 and came back in Nov '22, March '23, July '23, Nov '23, July '24, and now in a month, I'll be back. Did my 200th, 300th, 400th, and last July my 500th dive there. Was hoping to hit 600th next month but it may not be.
Anyone know what type of eel is at 10:05? I've dove Bonaire 6 times since July '22 and last July was the first time I saw some that look like that. It is definitely not any of the five I usually see (Green, spotted, golden tail, chain, sharptail). I have a video of one I couldn't ID on my channel and then another video where I swear it is the same eel that died after it got hooked by someone fishing. Just noticed more shots of it. 15:39 gives a good view. 19:46 gives an excellent view.
How far along is the Stony Coral Tissue Disease progressed????? When I dived Bonaire last summer it had destroyed corals from the north end of the island all the way down to Kralendijk. Tragic to witness the destruction of thousands of years of coral reef's growth!!! The south end of the island (down toward Salt Pier) was still diveable (in the "Green" zone) but required aggressive rinsing of ALL scuba gear in heavily chlorinated rinse tanks for several minutes followed by rinsing in freshwater tanks to try to prevent the further spread of the disease via transport in divers' gear.
The dive shop gave us a detailed briefing on the state of the coral surrounding the island and education on protective measures such as rinsing gear between sites/zones. Before heading out for the day we checked the local website on status of zone designate and planned accordingly. For the most part we headed north in the morning for two dives and then after lunch went south. This gave us time to wash/rinse gear between.
great video! just came back from a trip to bonaire, unfortunatly due to a colapsed lung i had 3 years ago i will never be able and not allowed to dive with diving tanks. But with snorkling i still saw alot of incredible sea life! My dad and 4 year younger brother do dive, and try and film as much as they can with their go-pro! Nonetheless, their fotage is not as crisp and clear as the footage u guys showed here. May i ask what camera and or lens u used if it was a go pro? i would realy appreciate if i could hear what u used, so i can gift them something like that, and still enjoy it almost as much as they did while diving! Much love! looking forward to more video's in the future!
Hi, thanks for the comments, always have a great time in Bonaire, heading back in April. Sorry to hear about not being able to dive anymore. As for the video, I used a gorpo Hero 11 at 2.7K 60frames and did some colour adjustments in editing. I find the stabilization are getting better on the gopro but I do focus when I line up a shot to control breathing/buoyancy. Hope this helps.
Great underwater see adventure with so many species. Can you tell me precisely where this region is situated because I would definitely discover it myself for diving. Hope you can tell me. Great videos as well. Thank you
Hi, the video was a mix of different locations over 24 dives. With current restrictions we spent most mornings along the northern shore line and then in the afternoon in the south end. We got up as far as Karpata and as south as Red Slave. That said we really enjoyed the usual suspects, Salt Pier, Oil Slick Leap, Something Special, Red Slave, Hilma Hooker ect...
Hi, we never got up to the mangroves unfortunately but it was one of the sites toward the north end of the island. The cliff jump was a site called oil slick, there is a ladder to climb out of just down from the enter point. Higher recommend Bonaire for its diving :)
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Yes we did. It was our first time, normally we stay with Buddy Dive Resort but the pricing was very competitive with the drive and dive package. The report is new and minimalist in design. We had a few bumps at check in as one of the rooms AC did not work but they moved occupants to another room with upgrade at no extra charge. The dive shop was fantastic, very accommodating. The first couple of days we had to cart tanks to the parking lot however when staff noticed they jumped to help out and used their 4 wheeler to bring them for us. Later in the week they had opened up dive lockers that where conveniently located by the trucks making it much easier to come and go. I believe they plan to even install air compressor that would allow you to fill tanks within the same locker area. The restaurants on resort were nice enough but found the beach bar, which shared the same menu to be much nicer atmosphere after a long day of diving. We had originally planned to try out the lazy river that circles the entire resort but did not get back to report in tie before it closed in the evening. From the visitors I witnessed they all seemed to love it.
Good to see some visitors that are responsible divers with good form and buoyancy underwater. So many times I see dive tourists crashing into the reefs, breaking soft coral to get 'the shot', etc. Wish we had more good divers like these folks. You are more than welcome back.
My son and did Bonaire back in 2022, stayed at Dive Buddy resort, was incredible, walk right from the beach into the ocean with full dive gear and descend down to the reef. Multiple reefs to dive. Salt pier was great.
Beautiful video! I would love to see more (yes, I'll check out your channel and see what else you've got) but without all of the back and forth between divers and reef/fish. I know, everybody's a critic. I'm not really! It just takes a person out of the zone if they are trying to meditate to it. It won't be much longer before video's like these will be all that remains of the reefs so I am very grateful folks like yourselves share like this. Thank you!
Great video, awesome footage!
You guys had great moments in Bonaire. I was there in 2015. Your video is flawless. Congratulations
Incredible video! Thank you for posting. I’m going to Bonaire for my first time and b-day in July’24. We are staying at Plaza Vander Velk. I’m also decked out in pink like one of your fellow divers. Team Pink! 🧜♀️💖
Haha! I spent my July birthday in '22 and '23 in Bonaire at Plaza Beach and Dive Resort. This year, I was there after my birthday in July and just got back a week ago from 2 weeks there. Love the place, the people and the diving.
This is a brilliant video! We are booked in to come again for our 15th time in 6 weeks time. So good to see everything as it should be! Thanks
So beautiful,it reminds me of Caracasbaai Curacao. My next trip down will include Bonaire! Thanks for this.
Be careful. Bonaire is highly addictive. I went for the 1st time in July '22 and came back in Nov '22, March '23, July '23, Nov '23, July '24, and now in a month, I'll be back. Did my 200th, 300th, 400th, and last July my 500th dive there. Was hoping to hit 600th next month but it may not be.
Nice video!
Great video thanks for sharing 🎉
Anyone know what type of eel is at 10:05? I've dove Bonaire 6 times since July '22 and last July was the first time I saw some that look like that. It is definitely not any of the five I usually see (Green, spotted, golden tail, chain, sharptail). I have a video of one I couldn't ID on my channel and then another video where I swear it is the same eel that died after it got hooked by someone fishing.
Just noticed more shots of it. 15:39 gives a good view. 19:46 gives an excellent view.
Excellent
How far along is the Stony Coral Tissue Disease progressed????? When I dived Bonaire last summer it had destroyed corals from the north end of the island all the way down to Kralendijk. Tragic to witness the destruction of thousands of years of coral reef's growth!!! The south end of the island (down toward Salt Pier) was still diveable (in the "Green" zone) but required aggressive rinsing of ALL scuba gear in heavily chlorinated rinse tanks for several minutes followed by rinsing in freshwater tanks to try to prevent the further spread of the disease via transport in divers' gear.
The dive shop gave us a detailed briefing on the state of the coral surrounding the island and education on protective measures such as rinsing gear between sites/zones. Before heading out for the day we checked the local website on status of zone designate and planned accordingly. For the most part we headed north in the morning for two dives and then after lunch went south. This gave us time to wash/rinse gear between.
Nice pictures - thanx for sharing. What is the music u used ?
I use epidemicsound.
great video! just came back from a trip to bonaire, unfortunatly due to a colapsed lung i had 3 years ago i will never be able and not allowed to dive with diving tanks.
But with snorkling i still saw alot of incredible sea life! My dad and 4 year younger brother do dive, and try and film as much as they can with their go-pro!
Nonetheless, their fotage is not as crisp and clear as the footage u guys showed here.
May i ask what camera and or lens u used if it was a go pro? i would realy appreciate if i could hear what u used, so i can gift them something like that, and still enjoy it almost as much as they did while diving!
Much love! looking forward to more video's in the future!
Hi, thanks for the comments, always have a great time in Bonaire, heading back in April. Sorry to hear about not being able to dive anymore.
As for the video, I used a gorpo Hero 11 at 2.7K 60frames and did some colour adjustments in editing. I find the stabilization are getting better on the gopro but I do focus when I line up a shot to control breathing/buoyancy. Hope this helps.
Great underwater see adventure with so many species. Can you tell me precisely where this region is situated because I would definitely discover it myself for diving. Hope you can tell me. Great videos as well. Thank you
Hi, the video was a mix of different locations over 24 dives. With current restrictions we spent most mornings along the northern shore line and then in the afternoon in the south end. We got up as far as Karpata and as south as Red Slave. That said we really enjoyed the usual suspects, Salt Pier, Oil Slick Leap, Something Special, Red Slave, Hilma Hooker ect...
At 17:54 what is the tree like branch is it mangrove?
Also I see how you enter these dives but how do you get out after jumping off a cliff
Hi, we never got up to the mangroves unfortunately but it was one of the sites toward the north end of the island. The cliff jump was a site called oil slick, there is a ladder to climb out of just down from the enter point. Higher recommend Bonaire for its diving :)
Wow...Fantastic video! Thanks for sharing. What kind of camera do you use?
Hi, thanks for the comment. I have been using the gopro 11 for the past few months upgraded from the gopro 10.
SELAMAT UNTUK PEMBANGUNAN DARI JEMBATAN PULAU BUNAKEN SAMPAI DESA TONGKAINA.. TANJUNG PISOK.. KECAMATAN BUNAKEN.. KOTA MANADO.. SULAWESI UTARA.. DAN SELAMAT UNTUK SAYA YANG TELAH MENYELESAIKAN STUDI DI PASCASARJANA UNIVERSITAS SAM RATULANGI MANADO.. PROGRAM S2 MAGISTER HUKUM.. BIDANG ILMU HUKUM BISNIS.. KHUSUS BISNIS INTERNASIONAL DI INDONESIA.. TAHUN 2024... SEKIAN DAN TERIMAKASIH.. SEMANGAT INDONESIA..!!
Did you stay at Chogogo in Bonaire?
Yes we did. It was our first time, normally we stay with Buddy Dive Resort but the pricing was very competitive with the drive and dive package. The report is new and minimalist in design. We had a few bumps at check in as one of the rooms AC did not work but they moved occupants to another room with upgrade at no extra charge. The dive shop was fantastic, very accommodating. The first couple of days we had to cart tanks to the parking lot however when staff noticed they jumped to help out and used their 4 wheeler to bring them for us. Later in the week they had opened up dive lockers that where conveniently located by the trucks making it much easier to come and go. I believe they plan to even install air compressor that would allow you to fill tanks within the same locker area. The restaurants on resort were nice enough but found the beach bar, which shared the same menu to be much nicer atmosphere after a long day of diving. We had originally planned to try out the lazy river that circles the entire resort but did not get back to report in tie before it closed in the evening. From the visitors I witnessed they all seemed to love it.
WoW !! Superbe vidéo ensorcelante; la qualité de votre montage est spectaculaire. Merci pour ce partage.
Waste of money food and diving sucked go to Florida