Diving Oil Slick Leap Bonaire | The Shore Dive Collection | TropicLens - 4K

Oil Slick Leap offers a good contrast to the first dive site we profiled. Many of the northern dive sites have elevated rocky edges and the reefs are much closer whereas the southern sites often have a considerable amount of sand and surface swim to get to the reef.
We love this site because of all the unique animals we spotted. This was the site where we saw our first black brotula, west Indian fighting conch and batwing coral crab. We also got to see a trio of juvenile spotted drums as well as a number of juvenile spotted trunkfish. Then there was the baby octopus at night. Sooo many good things to see here…and we can prove it! Just watch the video. :-)
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 as follows.
0:30 Site Background/Description
2:09 Site Logistics
4:58 Dive Profile
8:05 Sea Life
10:52 Night Diving
Please add a comment and let us know what you saw there.

[@Elle-bu6ou]

Bonaire is my favourite diving destination so far

[@TropicLens]

It is definitely one of our favorites as well...from a shore diving perspective. If you get the opportunity, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea are also absolutely terrific with some very different creatures. :-)

[@JC-21470]

Excellent video!

[@michaelross7988]

Great Video !!!!

[@TropicLens]

Thanks Michael. Glad you liked it. More to come...

[@peskypenguinadventures5255]

Your video and photography is absolutely stunning. Great composition, and image quality. I love the fish ID, it's a great "study guide" Thank you!

[@TropicLens]

Thank you so much Spencer. Glad you are enjoying them. :-)

[@therealone6296]

Nice! This is my first dive of the last dozen trips to Bonaire. I like being able to jump off to start the week. The shallow bowel at the entry is a good place to straighten out your bouyancy b4 heading south. It's also a great place to end the dive, there are often juvenile species and nudibranchs if you get lucky. And fish in the underhang behind the ladder when your getting out.

[@TropicLens]

Thanks Bob. The black brotula (which we have spotted twice) make this a special site for me personally as I love seeing new animals. Have you been there at night? And you're right about it being a great place for a buoyancy check. All around terrific.

[@robk5437]

Beautiful

[@TropicLens]

Thanks so much Rob!

[@lonnieparsons6068]

Dove it on 6/22. Great dive site with lots to see.

[@TropicLens]

Indeed. It's one of our favorites on the north. We've been to Salt Pier a number of times this week and it NEVER disappoints. The night dive last week was fantastic! (bait ball, octopus, lettered olive - first time we've seen one of those - and even spotted eagle ray!) Video on Sunday. :-)