Bonaire’s own Linda Ridley Is Inducted into Golden Hamlet Club

The Golden Hamlet Club is a select group of REEF (Reef Environmental Education Foundation) survey takers, who have conducted 1000 or more in-water surveys.  Bonaire’s Linda Ridley now becomes the 6th official entrant to be inducted into the club.

Linda joins Lad Akins, Linda Baker (also of Bonaire), Judie Clee, Peter Leahy, and Linda Schillinger. For those of you who have conducted surveys regularly on behalf of REEF, it’s a milestone to reach 100 surveys, much less 1000.

Beyond surveying, Linda Ridley does a lot of outreach for REEF at the Dive Friends Bonaire REEF Field Station on Bonaire. Linda’s in- and out-of-the-water instruction and mentoring in conducting REEF surveys represents a plateau for REEF members to strive towards achieving. When the Golden Hamlet members are in the water assessing fish populations, REEF gives them the same status as their staff when surveying. In fact, the current GHC members represent over 7 percent of surveys in the REEF database. Surveying at this level is certainly a laudatory achievement and requires a unique diving and surveying acumen.

If you wish to schedule time with Linda on your next Bonaire dive trip to learn how to survey, email Dive Friends Bonaire by clicking here.  (Source:  REEF Web Site)

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