Diving Red Slave Bonaire | The Shore Dive Collection | TropicLens - 4K

Red Slave is possibly our top dive site on the island, although a few others give it a run for its money. Located at the southern tip of Bonaire, it can have some current, so caution is advised. That said, such currents also bring spectacular sea life. We saw schools of blue parrotfish and southern sennets. There were spotted eagle rays, southern stingrays, turtles and sea horses as well as a field of elkhorn coral. From conchs to eels and palometa to porgies, Red Slave is not to be missed. You might not believe this description, but rest assured, there’s all that and much more in the video. So stop reading this and check it out!

If you dive Red Slave, lease add a comment and let us know what you saw there.

We want to encourage more shore diving, so this video provides some guidance where the site is, how to dive it and what you may see there. If you want to skip to or review specific topics, the section timings are below.

UNCOMMON SEA LIFE AND FIRST TIME CAPTURE IDENTIFICATION

We primarily use two sources to validate sea life we don’t recognize. The first is Florent's Guide To TheTropical Reefs which can be found at https://reefguide.org. Its free and has lots of pictures, but is not comprehensive. The second is “The Reef Set: Reef Fish, Reef Creature and Reef Coral (3 Volumes)”. The box set can be found on Amazon; however with all our travels, we also purchased the eBooks (http://fishid.com/store/product-categ...) so we don’t have to carry an extra five pounds of paper in our luggage. :-) We also reference other sources from time to time as well.

Here are some links to more information/images about animals from this video.

Eulima - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eulima
Longsnout Seahorse - https://reefguide.org/longsnoutseahor...
Arrow Squid - https://www.snorkelstj.com/arrow-squi...
Post Larval Surgeonfish - https://reefguide.org/carib/surgeonfi...
Goldspotted Eel- https://www.whatsthatfish.com/fish/go...
Blue Parrotfish - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_pa...
Encrusting Zoanthid - https://sta.uwi.edu/fst/lifesciences/...

Check out these resources for some history around the slave huts.
https://www.beautiful-bonaire.com/sig...
https://blue-oceans.com/index.php/bon...

And here is a link to fishing rules on Bonaire.
https://bonairereporter.com/back_issu...


CHAPTERS

0:00 Intro
0:29 Site Background/Description
3:39 Site Logistics
7:06 Dive Profile
11:57 Sea Life
15:23 Night Diving


CAMERA EQUIPMENT

Underwater Camera - iPhone 14 Pro Max
Underwater Housing - Divevolk Seatouch 4
Underwater Lights - Kraken Hydra 8000 WRGBU
Camera App - Default iOS camera app
Land Camera - iPhone 13 Pro Max
Driving Camera - GoPro Hero 9 Black (using the GoPro suction cup mount)