Have you have dove Bonaire's Salt Pier. What to know where to look to see the cool stuff and where all the colors are. Well, the time to do that is at night. This episode we take you to Bonaire's Salt Pier (also called the Cargill Salt Pier) at night and we show you where to see all the cool stuff. You need really good lights and you need to look places where you would not normally look. The result is a color explosion that is off the charts. In this episode you will see work done to reattach colorful sponges to the rig, see what creatures are living in and around them, you will see a light show in the water column as well,. You will see green turtles, squid, a comb jelly, slipper lobsters, a honeycomb cowfish and our resident buoyancy control supervisor, Charlie, that swims underneath you to make sure your buoyancy is just right. The episode is packed with color and much more.
Salt Pier Sponge reattachment video “We Be Sponge’n”
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=== Chapters ====
0:00 Monologue
2:32 A Diver's Life Intro 2023
3:34 Opening Coming up On the Pier
3:59 Swim up the Pilings
4:44: A Light Show in the Water Column
5:13 The top of the Platform
5:23 The Sea Floor
7:35 Life within the Scattered Pore Rope Sponges
9:42 Checking out the Sponge Attachments
10:35 Time to head in
11:16 Tarpon and Silverside Invasion
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Music:
Blue - Eklo feat. Jordin Laine (RFM youtube)
Everergreem Fields - Tape Machine (Epidemic Sound)
Maps - August Wilhelmsson (Epidemic Sound)
Rainbow Fall - Lama House (Epidemic Sound)
Ocean Air - Aerian (Epidemic Sound)
The Village Welcoming - Adrriel Fair (Epidemic Sound)
Sound Effects. - Epidemic Sound
Video equipment:
Sony A7sIII camera
Sony A7siii
Nauticam housing
Sony FE 28-60 F/4.5.6 lens
Sony FE 90mm F 2.8 Macro G OSS Lens
Nauticam Nauticam Wet Wide Lens 1B (WWL-1B)
Atomos Ninja V+ Big Blue 15000 Lumen Lights
IPhone 12 Pro Max
Cinematography, Photography, Monolog, Script, Narration, Post Production – Rich Schwerdtfeger
Divers:
Doreen Schwerdtfeger
