Solo buceo

Sólo buceo

By Alberto Friscione

Bonaire

Whenthe restless Alex Zozaya called me to invite me on a diving trip to the island of Bonaire, I said yes, so when I realized I was already on a plane heading to Panama accompanied by Pablo Simón, we had to take another plane to Curacao where the rest of our friends were already waiting for us.

We flew excitedly together to the island of Bonaire. We arrived directly at the hotel’s dive shop. Very early the next day we made our first dive, how great our impression must have been of finding a countless number of corals that presented the bleaching syndrome causing their death and leaving them white, hence their name.

Scientists have the theory that it is caused by the increase in temperature in the oceans, another factor could be pollution and excess construction on the coast and overfishing. Whatever the cause, believe that we also have the solution, since we also witnessed that they are planting corals and they are growing healthy and multiplying as we could see in this garden of deer horn corals.

Bonaire is a very famous place among diving lovers because you don’t need a boat to access the reefs, almost all of them are very close to the coast. It also has a very large sunken ship that invites exploration. We did the night diving from the hotel beach and it was surprising to find a school of tarpon that fiercely hunted a patch of sardines. In addition, we were able to observe lobsters, sea bass and sleeping parrotfish.

Finally, I tell you that thanks to the generosity of Alexandro and friends I was able to learn about and verify the state of the coral on an island called Bonaire.

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