ScubaBrucie

Recently on Bonaire we saw Paul Allen’s second yacht, Octopus. It is huge, big enough for a hangar for the two helicopters it carries! Big enough to carry a resident dive instructor to teach and guide the guests as necessary. I was told that the dive instructor had resigned and that there was a job [...]

As we all know from our PADI Open Water training you lose a lot of heat from your head. On a warm water dive you don’t initially notice this but if you do long dives or repetitive dives you can really begin to feel the chill. A traditional dive hood is an awkward and restrictive [...]

A marine ecosystem is a lot different from a land ecosystem. On land the food chain is usually very simple, carnivore eats herbivore. In the water the food chain is usually very long with a large number of small steps all the way from plankton up to shark. So if you remove a species from the [...]

 In this I am not being condescending nor am I trying to teach my grandmother how to suck eggs however on Bonaire recently I noticed a lot of people shore diving the hard way and this article is for them. Basically what they were doing was surface swimming out to the divesite marker buoy before descending [...]

 Having been to Bonaire at exactly the same time last year we knew what to expect. One difference is that I had a small target in sight starting the holiday on 931 dives, so I needed 69 dives in 19 days to get to 1,000, an average of just over 3.6 per day.  Supposedly Brazilian [...]