Dive Buddies Wanted.

[Yuri Korchynski]

I will be diving Bonaire from February 17th to March 3rd and am looking for a dive buddy. I'm the only diver in the group I will be travelling with. I was in Bonaire for 2 weeks last year, dove many sites and am familiar with the island. I have several certs including rescue and have about 225 dives.

I'm into dive photography and dive with an underwater camera with a wide angle lens. I don't make my living with dive photography but it's my passion. One of my photos was on display this year as part of the 'Year of the Coral Reef' exhibit at the National Gallery of the Cayman Islands

When we surfaced and returned to the shore at Salt Pier last year, a diver who had already finished their dive asked us "Did you see anything interesting?" We figured the eagle ray we saw was super cool so we enthusiastically replied. He looked down, kicked a small rock and said "yeah... Pod of 22 dolphins swam over us"

Anyone want to dive Bonaire?

 

[Yuri Korchynski]

I did get a good photo of the ray...

 

[Kharon]

Contact Dive Friends Bonaire. They can hook you up.

 

[Yuri Korchynski]

Thanks Kharon. I'll try that.

 

[Jersey]

Will miss you by a couple weeks. If I were you, I might schedule a couple boat dives to find other like minded photogs or divers with similar approach. Then simply ask to join them for some shore diving. Had that happen to me several times and usually happy as long as they are fairly competent. When I say similar approach - we like to go slow, very slow. I don't want to race around a reef or drop to 100 feet, then up to 10, then back to 80 because you 'thought you saw something'. Or maybe we pick a coral head or rubble pile and hang for 10 -15 minutes to see what shows up and comes out. That's the person I want to dive with.

 

[dmaziuk]

Where are you staying?

 

[tkaelin]

Just curious as to who goes to Bon and doesn't dive, let alone a group of nondivers.

 

[DustyC]

Just curious as to who goes to Bon and doesn't dive, let alone a group of nondivers.

3 of the 5 in my group don't dive.

 

[Yuri Korchynski]

Will miss you by a couple weeks. If I were you, I might schedule a couple boat dives to find other like minded photogs or divers with similar approach. Then simply ask to join them for some shore diving. Had that happen to me several times and usually happy as long as they are fairly competent. When I say similar approach - we like to go slow, very slow. I don't want to race around a reef or drop to 100 feet, then up to 10, then back to 80 because you 'thought you saw something'. Or maybe we pick a coral head or rubble pile and hang for 10 -15 minutes to see what shows up and comes out. That's the person I want to dive with.

Thanks Jersey. That was exactly what I did last year and it worked great. I have some friends for life from last year that I met on boat dives and then we shore dove after that. Met other solo divers that way too. I hadn't joined scubaboard then so I thought this year I might be able to find some buddies ahead of time.

 

[Yuri Korchynski]

Just curious as to who goes to Bon and doesn't dive, let alone a group of nondivers.

They are all avid snorkelers and Bonaire is fantastic for them too. They saw drums for the first time. Those are usually hard to see as a snorkeler because they like to hang out somewhere with a roof over their head so you cant see them from the surface. Often too deep too. I had the biggest grin ever when they told me they had seen a moorish idol. I knew that was the wrong ocean and they could only have seen a spotted drum.