Shallow Reef Magic - Bonaire's Freedom's Reward ep. 40 | A Diver's Life
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- Опубликовано: 27 июл 2024
- Bonaire’s Freedom’s Reward reef, located between the WEB Pier and Small wall is one of our favorite dive spots on Bonaire due to its coral, marine life, and amazing cinematic views enhanced by the way the sun soaks this reef late in the afternoon. In this episode we will take you to Freedom’s Reward’s stunning shallow reef in the late afternoon. The lighting and views are cinematic and will take you to your happy place. We will take you to the seldom dove pier at the WEB water facility and the Curoil terminal. You will see a purple frogfish, amazing fire coral, a surprise under the pier and much, much more. This is the type of video where you just sit back, meditate, and take in the scenery. It really is that beautiful and why this site is one of our top spots to dive on Bonaire.
These are related A Diver’s Life videos of the Freedom’s Reward reef , also known as Jen’s Reef.
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=== Chapters ====
0:00 Monolog sharing our experiences living and filming on Bonaire
3:31 You Will See
4:00 A Diver's Life Intro 2023
4:33 Freedom’s Reward Shallow Reef
10:18 Off to the WEB Pier
11:40 Purple Frogfish
12:04 Surprise under the Pier
12:31 Swim back to Freedom’s Reward
13:20 Reef Squid
14:11 Dusk Poking within the Fire Coral
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Music:
Bangha - Van Sandano (Epidemic Sound)
Blue - Eklo feat. Jordin Laine (RFM youtube)
Magical Gravity - Asher Fulero
Skyward Bound - Victor Lundberg (Epidemic Sound)
Watercolor Motion II - Trevor Kowalski (Epidemic Sound)
Sound Effects. - Epidemic Sound
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
Spotters and Divers: Doreen Schwerdtfeger
Chuky Contact Information for Auto Airconditioning Repair
Address: 10 Kaya Kondor, Kralendijk, Bonaire
Phone: +599 700 4283
Olathe Toyota Parts
Phone: 1-866-596-1970
Web site: parts.olathetoyota.com/
Special Thanks to Chris Maio and Jennie Stanfield for allowing us shore access to the Freedom’s Reward Reef
#bonaire #bonairediving #oceanconservation #scubadiving
Another beautiful video. You spoil us. Thank you.
Thank you!
Loved it!!! My wife loves the frogfish so I cast this up on our TV to watch with her.
Thank you Caleb
Beautiful video as usual. Thank you.
Thank you Reza.
Another good video.. Such a beautiful Island I hope will visit in the near future 🏁
Thank you
Can’t wait to see it live again! Monday we’re back in Bonaire 🎉🎉🎉
Well, welcome home in advance!
Hi Doreen and Rich! The Bonaire cleanup day last weekend was fun!
Yes it was!
The episodes are getting more abstract and developing their own poetic... Rich, I am still cursing the flooded atmos display and would love to see "A Diver's Life" take on the Windjammer, one day.
Thank you. So, we went to film the windjammer. I had asked the divemaster to be careful of the dome port, but when handing me my camera he slammed the dome port into my deco bottle and put a large gash on the glass. So, my camera would not focus. Then one light flooded. At that point I focused on the dive. Unfortunately, now you are not allowed to dive the windjammer due to SCTLD restrictions. My plan is to dive it on a rebreather. I have dove the jammer a number of times and want to do a special on it
- in fact I have already talked to a friend about doing it together. It will probably take up to 10 dives to do it justice.
I learned that I don’t want to dive it again on doubles as it is just too much gear to deal with with a big camera. Also, if we are going to do it we need to nock it out of the park. It would be a special.
@@ADiversLife I learned about the Windjammer after reading Michael Crichton's "Travels", in which there is a whole chapter dedicated to the wreck. I've been absolutely fascinated ever since... however, I need to get a bit further into the world of technical diving before I dive it myself.
@@kissamoray I have Chrichton’s book and know the chapter. I dove the wreck first in 1998 when she was amazing. I the artist that painted her is a personal friend of ours and a former Cousteau diver.
Is this a site that requires special permission for easy access?ya wife and I will be heading to Bonaire, I’ll be doing underwater photography. This site looks like a dream
We uploaded corrected US English subtitles.
Loved it! I see names to some coral that I’ve not annotated in my past dive pictures. Thanks! Is this a private site requiring owner’s permission?
Hi Sonjya, Thank you. Yes, this is a private dive site but you can reach it from the surrounding dive sites. In the beginning I put in a map. that showed Small Wall and The WEB pier. You can best get to the site from a dive boat to Small wall. There is a dive site south of the pier called Hamlet but that is quite a swim for most people. We can make it but we dive a lot. This is why this site is so beautiful - less human interaction. In fact, people usually can't get to the pier due to a fuel ship coming there. We hit things at the right time.
Suggestions on public access to WEB pier?
Swim shallow from Cliff north to is as long as no boat is docked there. You can also swim there from Small Wall but stay shallow
The easiest think to do is walk down the boat ramp at the boat yard and swim to the pier underwater. Again, not if a boat is there much the same as Salt Pier