BONAIRE / SMALL-GROUP EXPERIENCE
Bonaire with Carmen.
Go beyond counting dives. Learn the reef’s characters, behaviours and connections with a marine educator beside you.
Price in development
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This flexible experience brings together relaxed Bonaire shore diving, fish identification and meaningful marine education. It is intended for divers who value patient guidance and want to understand the reef as well as enjoy it.
Non-diving partners can be included in the quote, and the final programme can allow personal time rather than filling every hour.
Proposed inclusions
- Pre-arrival online fish ID introduction
- Guided educational dives with Carmen
- REEF fish-survey experience
- Ostracod or specialist night-dive planning
- End-of-stay image and identification session
CARMEN IN THE REEF COMMUNITY
Curiosity that contributes.
In its profile of Carmen, the Reef Environmental Education Foundation highlights her fish-identification teaching and volunteer surveying in both the Caribbean and the Indo-Pacific. That combination of learning and contributing is the inspiration behind this Bonaire experience.
Read the independent REEF feature ↗PLAN THE JOURNEY
Getting there & when to go
Getting there
Fly into Bonaire’s Flamingo International Airport (BON), close to Kralendijk. We can build the local transfer and accommodation around your arrival, then match the diving programme to your experience and interests.
Diving through the seasons
Bonaire offers diving throughout the year, so there is no single month you need to catch for its reef life. Specialist night dives, including ostracod displays, need more precise planning around lunar timing and local conditions. Carmen’s hosted weeks will have specific dates once the programme is confirmed.
YOUR DATES, YOUR PACE
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What stays with you
after the dive.
From guests who dived and learned with Carmen.
“My husband and I did one dive with Carmen and we already plan to do her Fish ID course next time we come to Bonaire.”
“I did a private Fish ID course with guided snorkeling and left with so much knowledge about the fish in the Caribbean and their behavior.”
“Carmen came aboard our catamaran to give us and our VIP guests a private Fish ID experience.”
“Spent a spellbinding week diving with Carmen this summer and we cannot wait to come back.”
“My family and I have hired Carmen as a guide and teacher (both about fish ID and diving skills) for two years in a row.”