Photography
Jan 09
by moniquetaree in marine life, Nature, Ocean, portraits, press, publication, roatan, Scubadiving, Uncategorized, underwaterphotography, women 0 comments tags: honduras, livingabroad, nature. underwaterphotography, ocean, roatan, scubadiving, women

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. […]
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Jul 09
by moniquetaree in portraits, publication, Uncategorized, underwaterweddings 0 comments tags: bayislandsofhonduras, love, moceanart, moniquetaree, ocean, roatan, scubadivers, scubadiving, underwaterportraits, underwaterweddings, weddings

Love is in the Ocean. Who Wants to Get Married Underwater?

When love is in the air! I felt privileged to capture their beautiful underwater wedding. Julia and Bryan, I met here in Roatan, they decided to get married underwater and organized it within twee weeks! An unique event. A challenge to photograph. Toronto Life published their Love story and my photographs; read more! https://torontolife.com/city/life/real-weddings-inside-underwater-ceremony-honduras/?fbclid=IwAR2WWD9A2tBzXRVMccHRYryuwMknh_xW2Tc3G8uJESJQ4zjYfkRUoDBaoJ8     Who wants to get married underwater? We can organize it for you! We have the perfect dive sites for making an unforgettable experience. It has shallow sandy bottoms with a good visibility. Send us an email monique@taree.eu Monique Y. Tarée
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Sep 07
by moniquetaree in marine life, press, publication, roatan, Scubadiving, Uncategorized 0 comments tags: bayislandsofhonduras, dutch, honduras, islandlife, moniquetaree, roatan, taree, tvc

Monique Tarée, a talented Dutch woman who fell in love with Honduras

https://www.televicentro.hn/noticias/detalle/5b8c519234b4b708a2928c6a/Monique-Taree-la-holandesa-que-le-entrego-su-corazon-a-Roatan This week I was featured by Televicentro HN, a TV channel in Honduras. The article was in Spanish, so hereby for my Englisch speaking friends to read the story! Lets meet Monique Tarée, a talented Dutch woman who fell in love with Honduras and shows the world the beauty of this country. Roatan always opens her heart to thousands of tourists who come to enjoy its beaches, sun and entertainment. But on this occasion a European woman gave her heart to this island. This is the story of Monique Tarée, originally from Amsterdam, Netherlands, who fell in love with this beautiful island, in the Islas de la Bahia, on the Honduran Atlantic coast at first sight. How is it possible for a woman from a first world country to abandon the comforts of home and live the rest of her life in Roatan? Honduras is said to have magnetism to those who visit it.  At the same time thousands of Hondurans emigrate to seek other opportunities abroad. And many Europeans and Americans choose to come to settle in the Bay Islands and Monique’s history is proof of this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6huDnwM7PD8 Tarée decided to make her first trip to Honduras in […]
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Apr 23
by moniquetaree in dawn diving, Go deeper, marine life, Ocean, roatan, Scubadiving, wreck diving 2 comments tags: cargo ship, caribbean, el aguila, roatan, scubadiving, wreck dive

The Eagle at Sunrise

The island life is sometimes hard to explain. So I am always pleasantly surprised if family or friends come my way to experience the laid back atmosphere here. It is even more fun if they like to dive. Annet, my friend from the Netherlands, came a few years ago to do her Padi advanced course with me. She likes the island, the diving, and me too and so she came for her 5th trip. My idea is to challenge her this time and do a different type of dive than she is used to. The Wreck El Aguila is a popular diving spot, at times there are more divers than fish. For that reason we will go to this wreck before dawn. I am not a morning person at all, so it will be a challenge for me too not to miss the alarm.   It is one of the three most important shipwreck dive sites off the coast of Roatan. According to the son of the former Mayor of Roatan, El Aquila was en route from Puerto Cortes, Honduras to Haîti with a cargo of concrete. The ship was wrecked near Utila, presumably by sabotage. For some years, El Aguila […]
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Apr 17
by moniquetaree in Deepsea explorer, Go deeper, Nature, Ocean, Submarine 0 comments tags: bayislandsofhonduras, deepsea exploration, go deeper, godeeper, karl stanley, karlstanley, moniquetaree, ocean, ocean depts, ocean explorer, oceanexplorer, roatan, submarine, yellowsubmarine

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 […]
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