Buddy Dive Resort Announces Marine Life Education Program for September, 2007

Over the past three years, noted naturalists Ned and Anna DeLoach have come to Buddy Dive Resort here on Bonaire to spend the month of September educating and diving with guests and combining those guests’ dive vacations with education, fun, and entertainment.  For 2007, Buddy Dive Resort has just announced an expansion on this popular event, the Marine Life Education Program, which will be held throughout the month of September.

This year, the program will include presentations by the Sea Turtle Conservation Bonaire (STCB) and two weekly field trips with their staff.  These presentations will augment those by Ned and Anna, which are already popular events for Buddy Dive’s guests.

As co-writer of the Reef Coral-ID, Reef Fish-ID and Reef Creatures-ID books (see www.fishid.com), Ned is well known and respected within the marine sciences establishment, dive world, and far beyond. Anna joined forces with her husband to study and document marine life species around the world. As a very talented photographer and videographer, she produced several educational DVDs that examine the relationship of marine animals and their environment.

Mabel Nava de Simal, manager of the Sea Turtle Conservation Bonaire, was appointed to her position in January, 2005 and has a background in veterinarian medicines as well as an extensive training in the field of turtle research. Together with STCB’s field specialist Gielmon “Funchi” Egbreghts, Mabel will guide weekly field trips and conduct a slide show presentation about this intriguing species that fascinates so many divers and snorkelers (see www.bonairenature.com/turtles/

September is also an active period in the coral spawning season and Ned & Anna will give special presentations that will let you understand, discover and enjoy the spawning wonders (see image taken during 2006 program).

For additional details and a complete schedule of each week’s events, view the Buddy Dive Resort press release (in PDF format).  (Source:  Buddy Dive Resort Press Release)

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