By Annette Bursey on Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 7:38 am: |
Good morning bter's. It is a nice bright sunny day here so far, and quite mild too. Makes a person feel cheeful does that.
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By Annette Bursey on Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 8:25 am: |
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By markboer on Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 10:02 am: |
goodmorning all my father and mother be and dineke are arived in bonaire they stay for two monthes have a nice holiday in our house greetings mark and esther emmen holland
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By Marisa Thompson on Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 11:07 am: |
Hello,
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By John Allen on Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 11:37 am: |
The reef cam is at the dive site called Small Wall. It is a boat dive because the shore is alll private residences. The street cam and beach cams are at Jake Richter's house, on Kaya Rotterdam, a little north of Kralendijk.
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By Kevin Mac on Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 12:54 pm: |
Hi Marisa,
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By Ida Christie on Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 1:05 pm: |
Good afternoon everyone. Looks like sparkles on the water.
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By Ida Christie on Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 1:06 pm: |
and a little rain....
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By Annette Bursey on Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 1:17 pm: |
And a little Fish. Hi Ida.
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By Harrie Cox on Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 1:37 pm: |
More exactly, the WEBCams are at Kaya Rotterdam #2, this street is a sidestreet of the Kaya Gobernador N. Debrot. From Kralendijk it is in the direction North, pass all the big diving resorts (Buddy Dive a.s.o.), pass the Electricityplant, second road on the left, just after the Divers Paradise appartments. It's the first house in the Kaya Rotterdam, you can see paintings on the wall, about the webcams.
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By Marisa Thompson on Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 1:54 pm: |
Don't know anything about that, info would be great. I will be staying at the Plaza, for the last week of June well more likely, the 28th thru the 5th of July! My boyfriend and I are so excited. We are just going by ourselves and we want to know all there is to know! I am sure I'll go by there to say hello.
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By bob neer on Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 2:04 pm: |
very little that is not crazy
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By bluetang on Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 2:13 pm: |
mornin' all...hey kevin, are you and claire going back in June?
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By Jake Richter - NetTech on Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 2:14 pm: |
Marisa,
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By Kevin Mac on Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 2:36 pm: |
Yep, we're planning to go the 21st to the 29th, right after divefest. I'm looking at staying at BelMar they got a nice 2 for 1 dive deal. Just waiting on Air Jamaica to get their schedule finalized.
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By Kevin Mac on Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 2:37 pm: |
Jake, One more question. Did the octopus steal the red filter again?
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By Kevin Mac on Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 2:39 pm: |
Diver sightings
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By Annette Bursey on Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 2:46 pm: |
What are they doing
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By Jake Richter - NetTech on Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 2:56 pm: |
Those were two jerks wearing gloves, lying down all over the live coral (never mind kicking it and kneeling on it too). Their goal was apparently to pound two stakes with loose rubble into the ground so they could attach a sign no one can read, and then leave it there as garbage to be collected. If anyone hears about these two schmucks bragging about this endeavour, please let me and the Bonaire Mark Park know, as they violated several rules during their adventure.
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By Kevin Mac on Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 2:56 pm: |
Damage
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By Annette Bursey on Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 3:09 pm: |
Some people are just so inconsiderate. Annie B.
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By Annette Bursey on Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 3:11 pm: |
Some more divers.
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By Jake Richter - NetTech on Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 3:35 pm: |
Kevin,
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By Susan Feldman on Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 3:43 pm: |
And I bet they're so proud of themselves, too -- I bet they show up in front of your house too, Jake.
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By Kevin Mac on Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 3:52 pm: |
You bet Jake,
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By Marisa Thompson on Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 4:05 pm: |
I can't believe it they left the sign down there, They should be fined! That is called littering, get them off the island. Check their pockets, I am sure if they did something that stupid, then they probably took something for a memeory. Hoefully their memory can be a bad one when they get caught.
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By bluetang on Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 4:16 pm: |
issa...i agree...i hope that someone from one of the dive ops recognizes them and pulls the plug on their air fills. such disregard for the landscape...
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By Jake Richter - NetTech on Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 4:32 pm: |
Would be nice to identify these losers - I'll know more when I go out tomorrow morning for a long overdue ReefCam cleaning and sign removal dive...
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By bluetang on Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 4:49 pm: |
jake, hopefully the jerks will have put either their names, or club name...that will make it easy...oh, and a nice dive report would work wonders for those of us desk bound
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By bob neer on Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 4:51 pm: |
family picture bluetang???
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By bluetang on Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 5:00 pm: |
yes bob, aren't we beautiful!
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By Igor van Riel on Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 5:02 pm: |
Hmmmm, maybe we should start another thread "Plan To Kill the Retarded Divers on Bonaire"...
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By James & Margarite Hix on Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 5:40 pm: |
Igor...big difference between stupid and retarded.(We're trying to raise funding for the Special Olympics on Bonaire!) No excuse for those guys doing somsething so stupid.
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By James & Margarite Hix on Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 5:44 pm: |
Wish I were here....
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By James & Margarite Hix on Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 5:50 pm: |
Stupid sign still there....blocking our view of Smokey the Rock. Rusty won't like that. Bet she can think of some choice words for those divers and their sign......
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By bob neer on Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 5:50 pm: |
well,
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By Annette Bursey on Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 5:52 pm: |
I hope those divers are stupid enough to stand in front of the house with a sign which would say something similar to the one they left at the reefcam. The yellow fins are quite distinctive.14.44 pic. Annie B.
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By James & Margarite Hix on Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 5:54 pm: |
The first thing I was taught in Discover Scuba was to never hold your breath, then, don't touch ANYTHING. It's sorta common sense besides. Whatever...... glad I didn't make that blunder. I do plenty of other silly things.....
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By Jake Richter - NetTech on Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 5:54 pm: |
Bob,
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By James & Margarite Hix on Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 5:58 pm: |
The truth is I am bitter because I'm not there to clean up after the clowns. I would love to be there to pick up the mess and clean the cam. Then I would scold those divers and make them promise never to do that again ever. But here I am in McKinney Texas.
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By Annette Bursey on Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 6:02 pm: |
Surely someone out there would tell them to respect the coral, and stay off it. Annie B.
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By James & Margarite Hix on Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 6:03 pm: |
Don't they go over that in every orientation dive ? And isn't it basically illegal to wear gloves? Don't they ban you from ever diving in the park for life? Wonder how they follow up on that. I know in Cozumel, they have patroling diving park rangers. They're tough .
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By Annette Bursey on Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 6:40 pm: |
Visitors at the gate.
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By Annette Bursey on Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 7:08 pm: |
Grendel is looking for the Coral Killers.
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By Annette Bursey on Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 7:24 pm: |
Nearly time for bed here. Annie B.
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By Annette Bursey on Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 7:32 pm: |
ok i'm gone now. See you guys tomorrow. Annie B.
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By Eileen Kimmett on Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 9:07 pm: |
There are a few things I would like to say about those two damaging the reef. But can't mentionned here...
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By Faith M. Senie on Thursday, January 16, 2003 - 11:25 pm: |
Obviously these two clowns weren't paying the least bit of attention during the Marine Park briefing that they're required to get before anyone on the island will give them air...
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By Igor van Riel on Friday, January 17, 2003 - 4:02 am: |
Margarite and others,
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By Dean Botsford on Friday, January 17, 2003 - 8:25 am: |
Have they (turkey diver club members) been caught yet? Any updates?
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By Jake Richter - NetTech on Friday, January 17, 2003 - 1:26 pm: |
Okay - sign removed, as you may have noticed. To use Dean's term, the turkeys were the same ones who taped a sign to the cement tree holder across the street from the StreetCam in the last week, and then sat next to it.
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By Leigh Ann on Friday, January 17, 2003 - 1:36 pm: |
I found a phone number and address:
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By Sarah on Friday, January 17, 2003 - 1:45 pm: |
I cannot believe some people.. the corals those divers have made contact with may well be vulnerable to disease now. Thankfully, most of us know that making contact with corals can cause tissue damage..
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By Dean Botsford on Friday, January 17, 2003 - 1:52 pm: |
voice mail when I called, "please leave a message for Mike and Betty"...I declined, but it was Fewsons Systems
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By Susan Feldman on Friday, January 17, 2003 - 2:02 pm: |
Chances are... it's Mike and Betty (or Mike and a friend :P) Fewsons. I'd bet if you called around the various resorts you might be able to find them, Jake...
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By bob neer on Friday, January 17, 2003 - 2:04 pm: |
still in defense...a lot of folks might not realize that rubble pile is a living reef...i am sure they heard the words, "stay off the coral" at their orientation but if you do not know what constitutes coral then you could make a mistake.
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By Susan Feldman on Friday, January 17, 2003 - 2:23 pm: |
In my experience, the orientation lecture is pretty thorough, and gloves are mentioned. Very strongly. And it's reiterated: no gloves on any dive unless you're diving a wreck like the Hooker.
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By bob neer on Friday, January 17, 2003 - 2:37 pm: |
it's the doubt that is the problem...these guys have already been "hung" (no trial)
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By Freddie Hughes on Friday, January 17, 2003 - 3:08 pm: |
Looks like Betty Now
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By Freddie Hughes on Friday, January 17, 2003 - 3:22 pm: |
well perhaps not Betty!
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By Susan Feldman on Friday, January 17, 2003 - 3:27 pm: |
I guess I don't share your "doubt" -- if they paid attention to the orientation, they heard "no gloves". If they heard it and ignored it -- shame on them. If they were too cocky to listen -- shame on them.
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By Leigh Ann on Friday, January 17, 2003 - 3:44 pm: |
Don't know if the last name is Fewson or not. I have searched the internet for phone listings and got nothing in Texas for Fewson. Even tried to find out who owns the company with no luck. Maybe Jake can call some of the resorts and ask for Mike and Betty!
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By Jake Richter - NetTech on Friday, January 17, 2003 - 3:53 pm: |
I remember seeing someone put up a sign, and I was pretty sure it was a guy. He then put a folding chair next to the sign and sat there for a short period of time, I think...
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By Freddie Hughes on Friday, January 17, 2003 - 4:08 pm: |
the sign was not there before the 15:24 shot above...I checked three days prior to this picture.. hope this helped...don't see a chair though
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By Glen Reem on Friday, January 17, 2003 - 5:06 pm: |
Re: diving with gloves. I believe you will find at least two other conditions when gloves are allowed, according to an earlier Marine Park Manager. Neither would seem to apply to these divers.
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By bluetang on Friday, January 17, 2003 - 5:31 pm: |
i was also thinking that maybe they had a medical reason for the gloves...(siding with polyannaspongebob)....however, i agree with glen on his point. also, they obviously know about the cams, have watched the cams, by their desire for sign placement...so they must have seen/heard/read about the marine park rules, and the ribbing folks get for bad "cam ettiqute." i can't imagine that someone would come to bonaire to dive dive dive, and not know the rules...
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By Jake Richter - NetTech on Saturday, January 18, 2003 - 9:49 am: |
Well, they weren't caught on tape, unfortunately (although viewing the larger ReefCam archive images certainly indicates glove use and lying on large obvious coral heads), but they could be fined and have their diving privileges revoked in extreme cases (determined by the BMP), which in turn would mean that no dive shop would provide them tanks or fills. However, that penalty has occurred only once that I know of and it was when some folks were caught spearfishing, which is a criminal matter, not just a violation of park rules.
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By Ann Phelan on Saturday, January 18, 2003 - 10:44 am: |
Wow, I missed ALL of this..such intrigue...WOWSA..this sort of cures my PBD a bit..so where r the culprits?
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By Glen Reem on Saturday, January 18, 2003 - 10:47 am: |
Jake,
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By Jake Richter - NetTech on Saturday, January 18, 2003 - 11:48 am: |
They would get blacklisted by all the dive operators (who are the only ones other than the marine park who can sell park tags), and it limits tank fill opportunities - only a private compressor would be able to used.
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