Diving Bonaire's Mystery Coasts ep. 33 | A Diver's Life

Bonaire's Tilisa Del Mar wreck, secret elkhorn garden, and her wild southeastern and southern reefs! Normally a mystery to most divers, they are revealed under our camera lights as Caribbean storms pull the normally easterly winds out of the southern Caribbean and change their direction enabling us to dive these normally unattainable areas. Filmed in HDR, experience massive Elkhorn Coral, fields of lettuce coral, corky sea fingers, a curious cubera snapper, the Tilisa Del Mar wreck, a secret elkhorn garden, and much more. Learn the wreck's history as well as when and where she ran aground.
#scubadiving #shipwrecks #bonaire #coral #oceanconservation
==== Chapters ====
0:00 Hurricane Seasons, Wind Reversal dive opportunities
0:48 Monologue and Dive Briefing
7:14 A Diver’s Life Intro
8:16 Diving Cargill South Bridge Salt Pan Inlet on south
14:09 The Tilisa Del Mar Wreck to Willemstoren
18:29 The Secret Elkhorn Carden
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Credits: Cinematography: Rich Schwerdtfeger Script, editing, narration: Rich Schwerdtfeger
Divers: Alain Hoffmen, Bernadette Nieberding, Bob Burks, Doreen Schwerdtfeger,
Video equipment:
Sony A7sIII camera
Sony A7siii
Nauticam housing
Sony FW 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
Map GPS Coordinates:
Cargill South Salt Pan Inl;et Bridge- Lattitude: 12° 2'27.03"N Longitude: 68°13'41.49"W
Top of Berm Tilisa Del Mar- Lattitude: 12° 1'50.65"N Longitude: 68°14'2.08"W
Enter Tilisa Del Mar- Lattitude: 12° 1'50.83"N Longitude: 68°14'0.97"W
Pyaramid- Latidude: 12° 1'49.35"N Longitude: 68°14'4.12"W
North Edge Tilisa Del Mar- Lattitude: 12° 1'47.86"N Longitude: 68°14'1.97"W
Willemstoren Lighthouse: Latitude: 12° 1'42.03"N Longitude: 68°14'14.22"W
Red Slave Huts: Latidude: 12° 1'34.60"N Longitude: 68°15'4.65"W
Errata: in the video, we mentioned that orange spotted filefish. Those are white spotted filefish.
Music:
A Gentle Invitation - Dawn, Dawn, Dawn (Epifdemic Sound)
Apollo - Dream Cave (Epidemic Sound)
Blue - Eklo feat. Jordin Laine (RFM youtube)
Changing Outlook - Trevor Kowalsky (Epidemic Sound)
Hope for Humanity - Dream Cave (Epidemic Sound)
Scandinavian Nature - Claude Signet (Epidemic Sound)
Shipwrecked - At the End of Time, Nothing (Epidemic Sound)
Spring Garden - Sacramento Horizon (Epidemic Sound)
The Guiding Light - Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen (Epidemic Sound)
The Village Welcoming. - Adriel Fair (Epidemic Sound)
Images :
Images of Little Lil, and other names for Tilisa Del Mar: www.histarmar.com.ar/MarinaMer...
Images of The Tilisa Del Mar run aground just north of Willemstoren lighthouse: Bas Tol
King William I: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William...
Contact Information Bas Tol: www.basdiving.com/contact.html
Contact Information Bonaire East Coast Diving: www.bonaireeastcoastdiving.com/

[@frankscarabino3597]

Rich and Doreen Jealous. Who would have thought. Beautiful episode Frank and Elisabeth

[@ADiversLife]

Thank you Frank!

[@AddAdventures]

I love it when their friends suddenly appear. Great video!

[@ADiversLife]

Thank you

[@Panguipulli-ks1nx]

one of the best dive videos I have seen. Incredible bounty of coral structure in our times..Thank you!

[@ADiversLife]

Thank you so much! It is indeed a beautiful area.

[@Juscz]

Another FABULOUS Caribbean coral video. Thanks so much for sharing!

[@ADiversLife]

Thank you!

[@eleanorcoy6432]

Just gorgeous. Love the macro shots.

[@ADiversLife]

Thank you!

[@leonmarciak8821]

great work Rich and your producer Doreen!

[@ADiversLife]

Thank you

[@Chogogo717]

Keep ‘em coming. 📽 Can’t wait to be back in those waters at Christmas.

[@ADiversLife]

Thank you

[@dakicpopovich]

Have been watching all you videos to get to know Bonaire... Planning to go to Bonaire sometime next year to dive as much as possible🤞

[@ADiversLife]

I think you will love the diving here

[@dukemenangoravelsyata1429]

Merci pour le partage. Thanks from New-Caledonia.

[@ADiversLife]

You are welcome

[@rgorji]

Fabulous video. Thank you.

[@ADiversLife]

Thank you!

[@jongunderson]

Great video, thanks for sharing!

[@ADiversLife]

Thank you and you are most welcome.

[@rijckschlingemann5461]

Great video Rich!

[@ADiversLife]

Thank you!

[@KevinandLizGrogan]

Thanks for another awesome video Rich! Liz and I have only had conditions favorable enough to dive the lighthouse once in all of our years traveling to Bonaire. The sea conditions were absolutely flat, with the occasional wave rolling in. Even then I was taken out and rolled around while exiting by one of those seemingly tame waves. Hopefully viewers will heed your warnings and seek a qualified local guide like Bas. Thanks again for posting this one!

[@ADiversLife]

Hi Kevin, thank you and you are very welcome. It was funny. A man stopped by while I was filming my dive briefing at the lighthouse and asked if I was the guy with the walking sticks. I said know those are the Grogans. I think you helped a lot of people with those. I hope they do. As you know down there you can’t just be taken a 100 yards down with with the current and get out at a hotel or Sandy beach. In an earlier video on Red Slave some divers got sucked out 2 miles from the point a week later . A fisherman saw their smb and rescued them. I never know if they watched the video and forgot our points about the current. This time I thought I would make a bigger point of getting a guide.

[@KevinandLizGrogan]

@@ADiversLife oh those Red Slave currents! North at one depth, South at another, all on the same dive. On our most recent trip the current was just too strong (like South pass Fakarava strong) and we called the dive. We advised some folks suiting up to not dive the site, but they went on in anyway. Some people just have to learn on their own I guess. I heard about the divers who were rescued by the fisherman. That’s crazy!

[@ADiversLife]

@@KevinandLizGrogan ouch!

[@wendykelly266]

Wonderful video you are such an asset to our oceans and marine life. I would think Animal Planet would want you to do some episodes. Great choice of music like the upbeat seaside song then underwater the soft and beautiful symphonic tunes that match the flow of the ocean reefs.

[@ADiversLife]

Thank you Wendy. It is truly a passion I now get to follow. What brings so much joy is passing that live for the ocean on to others.

[@JurrienWiss]

Love to see those beautiful elkhorn corals ❤👍🏻

[@ADiversLife]

They are indeed beautiful

[@shotsbyscott6243]

Awesome video Rich! In September 2021 I went on a dive with the East Coast Divers. The seas were calmer than normal so it was very pleasent on the boat. The dives were amazing!

[@ADiversLife]

Excellent! And thank you!

[@clydog1]

Thankyou

[@ADiversLife]

You are welcome

[@johnmontgomery2735]

Pretty awesome diving. We are thinking about going out with east coast. By the way we are on the island. If you are inclined and have time for a dive that would fun. We are here until the twelfth

[@ADiversLife]

Ok. We shall see and thank you. Lot’s going on this week.

[@edwardwhitehill6658]

Amazing video and now I definitely want to experience this myself next time we’re in Bonaire. What are diving conditions like mid to late December in these areas?

[@ADiversLife]

December is hit or miss on the east and southern coasts where this was filmed. The rest of Bonaire should be fine. The air is cooler then too.

[@leonmarciak8821]

we hope to see you soon…

[@ADiversLife]

Cool. Safe travels

[@c0kement0s]

Want to go! Will this spot be disable end of October? Will be there 10/26-11/1 2023.

[@ADiversLife]

It is at the moment. The winds are down. I don’t know what the weather will be like if you were to come then.

[@c0kement0s]

Thanks Rich, hey I met Steve Andos wife on the plane to Bonaire a few years ago..I am now an owner (Villa Flamboyant Penthouse, Hamlet Oasis) and will be coming multiple times/year. Would love to meet you sometime!!!

[@ADiversLife]

@@c0kement0s Sure. We are in the US now but will be back on island October 14. Let me know when you are on the island and we will try to get together.

[@ADiversLife]

@@c0kement0s We would love to meet you.

[@mgbriscoe]

Your "orange-spotted filefish" mentioned twice is actually a white-spotted filefish.

[@ADiversLife]

You are right

[@ADiversLife]

I will put a note in the description. Thank you. I was labeling things at 4am. That one did not hit the mark. :-)

[@ADiversLife]

I updated the description to reflect the error