Buddy Dive Resort Announces Opening of Underwater Park
A unique underwater park has been created on Buddy’s Reef, the house reef of Bonaire’s Buddy Dive Resort. In an effort to create awareness and educate divers about the importance of our reefs, Buddy Dive Resort, with the consent of the Bonaire National Marine Park, decided to create an educational diving trail.
Initiated and created by Buddy’s Dive Operations Manager, Augusto Montbrun, the Underwater Park has two diving trails allowing multi-level dives that will take divers from 15ft/5m to a maximum depth of 80ft/24m and back to 15ft/5m after a 45-minute bottom time. And for divers who cannot reach the maximum depth due to level of certification or age (junior divers), they’ve prepared a parallel trail that will start at 15ft/5m and goes to a maximum depth of 40ft/12m.
While following the trails, divers will see different species of coral that grow in colonies at different depths along the topography of Buddy’s Reef Underwater Park. The corals are clearly marked with an underwater sign that has a printed photo, along with the common and scientific names on it. The sign will be fixed to the bottom of the ocean at a distance and height that will not allow divers to damage the reef while they are looking at the specific coral. All signs and materials used are environmental friendly.
To learn more about the new Underwater Park at Buddy Dive, click here to view the entire press release (in PDF format). (Source: Buddy Dive Resort)
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