Some SCUBA Diving Vids from Last Week in Bonaire

My girlfriend and I went to Bonaire last week for an incredible week of diving. She had been there in the past, but this was my first time. This was my first time diving in the ocean since being certified for my OW course back in June of this year. Not only that, but it was also my first time ever leaving the US. I had a brilliant time. We went to Buddy Dive in Bonaire. What a beautiful country, from north to south. I highly recommend it for anyone who has not been!

These are just a few of the vids I took. I apologize for any shaky video. Again, this was my first time ever in the ocean diving, so I am very new to the whole underwater world with currents and such. But I LOVE it and am officially addicted... damn.

I'm using a GoPro Hero2 HD with the GoPro Dive housing, red filter, and shot in 720 HD with 60 FPS.


BEST in my opinion. We went to the national park on the north end of the island for a cookout. The site is known as Boca Slagbaai. Great little bar with bar food, pink flamingos abound, and so much more. BEAUTIFUL location. Anyway, long story short... This was my last dive of the day. We hopped out into the water and headed north into the current. The current changed and REALLY started to suck us off of the reef. We kept our calm and were able to stay close. I saw this crazy cloud of bait fish.. known as a "bait ball" I was told. I swam toward it and hovered, taking video. The bait fish began to lift as Tarpon started to swim through. What an incredible sight - I can't believe what I saw and was able to record on video. It was such a fun, entertaining and incredible time. The video is here:
Tarpon Swimming Through a Bait Ball at Boca Slagbaai, Bonaire - 720 HD! - YouTube


Sea turtles - two vids of these magnificent creatures...

Boca Slagbaai:
Sea Turtle in Bonaire, Netherland Antilles - in 720 HD! - YouTube

Windsock:
Another Sea Turtle in Windsock in Bonaire - YouTube


Octopus - two vids as well of these guys:

Night diving - inking us - I guess we were too close?
Octopus Inking Us While Night Diving - Buddy Dive Reef, Bonaire - YouTube

Daytime off of Buddy Reef:
Daytime Octopus at Buddy Dive Bonaire - YouTube


The Hilma Hooker - 2 vids:
Diving the Wreck of the Hilma Hooker in Bonaire (1) - YouTube
Tarpon & Barracuda at the Hilma Hooker Ship Wreck in Bonaire - YouTube


Two moray eels:
Two Moray Eels in Bonaire - YouTube

 

Thanks for sharing, underwater world is amazing. I have ton of photo and video........Been diving since the 90 all over the world. The best moment for me is to see my ten years old got seasick on the way to the dive site and still do his first dive. He is a little trooper

 

:hss:My other best moment is cave dive with my son in Mexico..............
The thumb of rule is one third in, one third out and one third reserve...............After half way to the dive he signal low air and want to surface................lol
I signal him this is not open water so keep on going.................You should see his eyes :crazy::hss:
Priceless.............

 

Dos ojos? Great dive..... :thumbsup:

 

Yup been there many time, too many people............Did several other cave as well private own property.

 

very nice man

 

Awesome! Ive been diving in Thailand and Malaysia only..But in Malaysia it was an amazing experience. It was at a place called sipadan/kapalai resort out in the middle of the ocean..For about $1000 USD I got an awesome room - im talking beautiful, all food, non alcoholic drinks, 3 boat dives per day, and unlimited house reef dives - for a week!...Plus out there in SE asia they got people who carry your stuff on and off the boat and fill your tanks and get you setup for whenever you want to dive next.

 

Wish I could upload my dvd they made..They have 2 people filming 2 different dives that youre on and edit it into a sweet 15 minute or so video with music and clips of the whole group..

I had 2 most favorite things..

1 were 2 giant lobsters under a reef shelf..amazing!

and the other was an Eel about 5 feet long lol

 

Thanks! Glad to see some other divers here on the forum! I'd love to see others dive vids/photos if any of you have them online.

Here are a few more videos I uploaded last night...

Moray eel:
Moray Eel Hanging Out at Night in Bonaire - YouTube

Sea urchin hanging out in some coral - I guess my light scared him a bit if that's possible:
Sea Urchin Hiding in Coral in Bonaire - YouTube

A peek inside the Hilma Hooker wreck:
Inside the Wreck of the Hilma Hooker - YouTube

 

This thread will be the official thread for upload your underwater pictures and video
Let show what you got............

 

I'll have to post some photos then. I have 'em uploaded to my storage site, but not linked anywhere yet. Give me a few.

 

My youngest son first dive

My oldest son as his dive budy

 

My dive budy...............she is Hot

Cave dive

 

More to come...................

 

Ill contribute.

:boobies7:

 

Divefr you are to extremes for me.......I don't like to spend hours for off gas. Lol

 

I would love to have a drink and listen to your story.........Tech dive require top notch skills. physically and mentally......

 

These are just a few of the photos I took. We dove: Buddy Reef, Windsock, Hilma Hooker, Boca Slagbaai, Sharon's Serenity, Keepsake, Carl's Hill, etc.

Photos were taken with my GoPro Hero2 HD, GoPro Dive Housing, $14 red filter (I am purchasing the Backscatter one), SeaLife mount, Intova Imini; Other photos with a SeaLife DC600 - handheld. Most of these are the underwater ones - above water to come later.
























Frogfish:


Sea snake:












Parrot fish






Sea cucumber:


Octopus at night - bad photo:


Bait ball:


Old Spanish Canon:


Baby squid:


More squid:


Me:


Me:

 

I am impress with the gopro..........My underwater camera equipments are cost thousands $$$$$$ years ago. Thanks for sharing.

 

You're welcome! I am as well! I shoot with a Nikon D2x and some random glass on land. The camera was what, $5000 when it was new? The least expensive housing for JUST the camera that I've found is $3000-$6000. That's insane....

Figure, for the few hundred I spent on my GoPro setup, I am SUPER happy!