Lionfish Awareness and Elimination Course Bonaire

[annieols]

Hello everyone coming to, or already in, Bonaire!

I just want to let you know about the first (and only) Lionfish Awareness and Elimination course on Bonaire! It is a PADI Distinctive Specialty course taught at Bonaire Dive and Adventure. Some of you may be familiar with our already popular Diving with the Naturalist course, this new course is run in a similar format.

This awareness course will teach you all about lionfish, their invasion into local waters and various passive and active elimination techniques to help remove lionfish from these waters.

The half day course includes an academic presentation and a guided dive. The full day course includes a PADI Lionfish Awareness & Elimination specialty manual, academic presentation two dives with one of our lionfish awareness and elimination instructors and a PADI certification card! Help your instructor sight and eliminate lionfish on the reef!

 

[Mossman]

At least someone will make a buck out of the problem.

 

[drrich2]

If it would convince STINAPA to let regular recreational divers carry & use small devices to kill lionfish, you might really sell some courses.

If this just amounts to helping instructors and divemasters spot lionfish to kill, I'm thinking it won't be as popular.

Which is it?

Richard.

 

[annieols]

At the moment STINAPA isnt allowing all divers to use a spear, so divers are collecting lionfihs, and assisting in the spearing of them. Hopefully in the future it will change, and we will be able to allow the students to participate in more active control measures

 

[keithdiver]

Hello everyone coming to, or already in, Bonaire!

I just want to let you know about the first (and only) Lionfish Awareness and Elimination course on Bonaire! It is a PADI Distinctive Specialty course taught at Bonaire Dive and Adventure. Some of you may be familiar with our already popular Diving with the Naturalist course, this new course is run in a similar format.

This awareness course will teach you all about lionfish, their invasion into local waters and various passive and active elimination techniques to help remove lionfish from these waters.

The half day course includes an academic presentation and a guided dive. The full day course includes a PADI Lionfish Awareness & Elimination specialty manual, academic presentation two dives with one of our lionfish awareness and elimination instructors and a PADI certification card! Help your instructor sight and eliminate lionfish on the reef!

Is Jerry teaching this class?

 

[annieols]

Jerry is one of the instructors teaching the course- he will probably be doing the majority of them since he is such an amazing instructor and divers line up to take his classes and hear his wonderful stories!

 

[DiverVince]

Hmm..Something "fishy" about this one. Perhaps I'm missing something here. But does someone really need to take a course to learn about Lion Fish? There's loads of information and videos for free on the internet! To help an instructor sight lion fish? Isn't this what many divers are doing already with marking sites with surveyor tape & cork?

Now if taking the course was a pre requisite from STINAPA for a diver being able to use the ELF device on Bonaire's reefs that's something entirely different. But to take the course for a PADI card or to learn more about the marauder, I don't think so. The price of the course?

 

[annieols]

Please remove Post

 

[keithdiver]

Please remove Post

Please leave post, i agree with Vince 100%

 

[annieols]

its a duplicate post, that why i asked to have it removed... i have already defended and described the course in the other thread- thats why i asked for it to be removed...

not sure why an op cant remove posts on their own