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Jan 09

Monique dives daily into the beautiful underwater world of Honduras

Monique from Honduras has two passions: scuba diving and photography. She takes you with her into her underwater world where swimming with sharks, and weightless floating above the corals, makes you realize how important our oceans are! From childhood on I have always loved swimming. I used to live near or at the water, and until this day, the beautiful bay in Roatan is my backyard. Being in the water feels liberating, underwater, above water, floating in the water, it doesn’t matter, it relaxes me. What is that feeling I have over and over again with water…? Maybe I was a dolphin in my past life? I am always triggered by the unknown, want to explore depths and go where most people don’t (dare to) go. Probably that’s why I ended up in Honduras, which literally means ‘depths’ in Spanish. Swinging, being weightless and just be as invisible as long as possible When I dive at a depth of 35 meters, sometimes all kinds of thoughts go through my mind. Floating between the schools of fish and beautiful corals makes me realize that I am a lucky person. Maybe I am sometimes ‘narced,’ which is slang for having nitrogen narcosis. […]

Apr 17

by moniquetaree in Nature, Ocean, Sea turtles 0 comments tags: caribbean, go with the flow, hawskbill, hawskbill turtle, ocean, reef life

Mrs. Hawksbill

Almost on every dive I have had the chance to swim with a turtle. They are far from shy. Mrs. Hawskbill in this picture swam straight towards me. At that moment all my camera settings were in macro, of course. But I captured her anyway. I saw the shadow on the bottom and that motivated me to be fast no matter what setting. The colors didn’t come out as I had wished, so yes why not turn it into black and white? I love her face in this photo. With her smiley hooked beak which is used to catch and eat sponges, jellyfish, algae and even fish. She likes to pose for me, like Doutzen Kroes. Like many sea turtles, hawksbills are a critically endangered species due mostly to human impact. Hawksbill eggs are still eaten around the world despite the turtle’s international protected status. They are often killed for their flesh and their stunning shells. I think she just got back from the surface to get some air. She was fast and on a mission! As sea turtles are air breathing reptiles, they need to surface to breathe. It is amazing that they can hold their breath for several […]

A unique trip with my neighbor in his homemade submarine Idabel

Many people always ask me the same question over and over: “What brought you here?”. For us, it was the right time at the right moment to totally change it up in our lives. Scuba diving has always been one of my biggest passions and I would always try to make two diving holidays a year. Now every day when I look out of my window I see the beautiful sunny Half Moon Bay in front of me. That makes me happy, and I get even more excited that I can scuba dive right here in my back yard. So my mind was made up pretty quick and after working in the publishing business for many years I changed my hobby to my work. I have been a dive instructor and underwater photographer for well over nine years. Karl Stanley “Go Deeper” Right next door to us lives Karl Stanley, who’s childhood dream was to build his own submarine. He made that dream come true. Whilst he was studying he started building his first submarine the Cbug (controlled by Buoyancy). He had hundreds of dives with her, before he started making his second submarine Idabel, in which he can take […]

Monique dives daily into the beautiful underwater world of Honduras

Mrs. Hawksbill

A unique trip with my neighbor in his homemade submarine Idabel

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