Bonaire Reef ID and Behavior ep. 37 | A Diver's Life

Want to learn some reef identification and behavior for your next trip to the Caribbean? This video is for you! In this video we dive all around Bonaire's Marine park in the day and at night, filming reef behavior and identifying coral, fish, and reef creatures, and also some historical artifacts from Bonaire's distant past. If you want to make your dive that much cooler, having this knowledge is a big help. In this video you will see a rarely seen, yet exceedingly beautiful, Sargassum Triggerfish. These fish are shy and typically don't show up until you hit 40 meters down. We also take you to the Tolo dive site a couple of days after the full moon and see a marine life display at night that will boggle your mind. You will see an arrow squid, almost never seen by humans, come up from the deep, in attack formation, to feed on this marine life explosion. Watch to see how one squid behaves. Defiant is an understatement. You will also see the amazing dance of Butter Hamlets spawning at night. This episode is jam packed.

Strap on your fins and get ready to increase your knowledge and add some wonder and amazement to your day.


=== Chapters ====
0:00 Monologue
3:04 A Diver's Life Intro
4:06 Opening and Play Benge
6:44 Munks Haven
7:45:Something Special Day Action
9:50 Bon Bini Na Kas
10:42 Red Slave and the Sargassum Triggerfish
11:46 Carel's Vision
13:06 White Slave and the Salt Ship Anchors
19:04 Something Special and the Dance of the Butter Hamlets
6:47 Second Coral Island
24:00 After the Full Moon and Arrow Squid Action
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Music:

A Place for Peace. - Elm Place (Epidemic Sound)
A Winter to Remember - Trevor Kowalski (Epidemic Sound)
As A Family - Claude /Signet (Epidemic Sound)
Blue - Eklo feat. Jordin Laine (RFM youtube)
Latency - Real Hereose (Epidemic Sound)
Ocean Air - Aerian (Epidemic Sound)
Thoughts In the Rain - Elm Lake (Epidemic Sound)
Watercolor Motion II - Trevor Kowalski (Epidemic Sound)

Clarion by Scott Buckley   / scottbuckley   Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/-clarion Music promoted by Audio Library    • Clarion – Scott Buckley (No Copyright...  


Video equipment:

Sony A7sIII camera
Sony A7siii
Nauticam housing
Sony FE 28-60 F/4.5.6 lens
Sony FE 90mm F 2.8 Macro G OSS Lens
Nauticam Nauticam Wet Wide Lens 1B (WWL-1B)
Atomos Ninja V+ Big Blue 15000 Lumen Lights
IPhone 12 Pro Max

Cinematography, Photography, Monolog, Script, Narration, Post Production – Rich Schwerdtfeger

Thumbnail image of Rich and orange sponge - Steve Ando

Divers:
Alain Hoffman
Bernadette Nierberding
Doreen Schwerdtfeger

Images

Admiralty Anchor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchor#...
Rodgers Anchor: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...