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yes you are allowed to use gloves while hunting lionfish. but you are only allowed to hunt lionfish under the direct supervision of a dive pro on the island... contact Bonaire DIve and Adventure to take their PADI lionfish awareness and elimination course with instructor Carl (then go to his...

Hi there, I have both replaced my elastomeer strap and had suunto perform (about 4) battery changes on my D6 computer. Ask your local LDS about getting a new strap (I dont know if you can find it online), i paid around 45$ for it, and it ws as simple as unscrewing some small screws to get it...

Hey, I had a customer mention to me today as he was getting on the boat that he left his wide angle lens (for an ikelite housing) sitting in the sand underwater at Oil Slick.. could this be the item that you found??? If so please drop it at Bonaire Dive and Adventure, or give us a call so...

the orientations are required by stinpa, and all shope are required to brief all divers.. even though it isnt all that fun! :D

hey were you at Bonaire Dive and Adventure? I think we identified it as a pelagic tunicate.. when i looked into it closer i also thought it was a salp (Salpa maxima looked about right) I cant figure out how to post a pic on the new Scubaboard, but go to this website and look at the photo...

hey everyone, I am reopening this blog to announce some more exciting information... keep an eye out for the aug 2011 sport diver, where they have a neat article about my lionfish course! im still proud! :D

im a little confused, are you looking for a photo camera or a video camera? did you use a light? I have a g10, bc i am mostly into photography. after getting used to the camera and strobe i get great photos. As for video, I was really unhappy about the flat washed-out look at first. After white...

a week of tanks at onaire dive and adventure is 165, air or nitrox, or is 28 a day for unlimited tanks that day.. Nitrox is always the same price as air... you can dive all week and then get your dives added up- if you fit into a package, thats what we charge you, if not we dont.

just to clear up a concern i have heard on this site a couple of times... the dive site bari reef is accessable to ALL divers. however, the dock, rinsebins, ladder to the dock, tanks, showers etc are only for the use of registered guests. To get to Bari rref the fully public version, turn west...

gotta love them "dive babes"... Glad you guys enjoyed it! I think i would have had a blast getting a drink with you all and sharing silly diver stories! Nest time i guess! see you then, CALIFORNIA

a little off topic but the comment about ice cubes as weight makes me think of a silly DM story... Working on a boat in a shore diving area, all divers were told to do a shore dive and get weighting down first because there would be no extra weights on board.. Of course, we did keep about 4- 2lb...

i am a little (crazy) jealous of your sighting!! Ive been in Bonaire for the last 8 months I havent seen anything eso amazing yet.. this week there was also a manta ray spotted a couple times and several large logger heads. The turtles are moving in for nesting season, but i think the other big...

The PADI Lionfish Tracker course covers so much of the same information as my course does. One of the contributors, Mark Hixon, is one of the top researchers of lionfish and i read many papers written by him and his students (including the write up about the proceedings of the 61st Gulf and...

wow this has been quite a post, and i have definitely held my tongue and not commented, but REALLY?!?! 20 billion EUROS just to pave the roads in Bonaire.. i mean jeez for 20 billion euros they could pave the wole damn island.. me thinks you exaggerate Mitridate, but if not please share where...

What should be done with a lionfish after it is speared? the PADI Lionfiah Awareness and Elimination course suggests safely removing it from your spear and leaving it on the reef, or collecting it to take to a local research station or to enjoy as a post dive snack. Lionfish should not be fed to...

how did your bite occur, out of curiosity... did the eel come form out of a hole to attack you? were you touching a coral near its hole? i have seen aggressive eels, and am just curious how your actual bite occured...

the are not poisonous, they are venomous and there is a HUGE HUGE difference, they are nothing like blowfish in respect to eating- if you remove the spines (18 of them on back, anal and pelvic fins) then the meat poses absolutely noooo problem, actually its quite tastey- mild, white and firm...

I made no comment about freds hypothesis that LF may actually be beneficial to corals. Though i have a hard time believing he could support such a claim, I think persuing all possible hypotheses can only lead to beneficial outcomes. I applaude his personal interest in lionfish and was only...

The other poster said (and i paraphrase) that juvinile lionfish are not found on the reef because they float for 10 months, in my research I found that lionfish larvae hatch and settle within a month (or slightly less)- this is a huge time difference, especially since new research is starting to...

Fred R. if you have a sited reference for your 10 month statement i would really love to read it, as it contradicts the research i read