Certified lionfish removal on the reef: your guide leads, you hunt, and the catch gets used.
This is an active removal dive, not a sightseeing experience.
You and your guide work specific reef sections removing invasive lionfish with pole spears. The catch goes to local restaurants. Lionfish Hunting certification required: this is the practical application of that course. Your guide assigns sections, coaches technique, and handles safe collection. This dive makes a direct difference to the reef you're diving.
Most guided dives elsewhere put you in a group of eight, following a divemaster you'll never see again. On Bonaire, Stephan or Linda picks the site that morning based on conditions, guides you personally, and keeps the group to four. Local knowledge, not a scripted route.
Site picked on the day. Briefed at the site. Then in the water.
Your guide checks conditions and picks the best site for that day. Suggest one yourself and your guide will factor it in.
Site layout, entry point, hand signals, what to watch for underwater. About 30 minutes at the site before you gear up.
Shore entry. 45–60 minutes underwater. Your guide leads.
Questions about your specific kit? Mention it when you fill in the dive plan form.
Wanderlust is run by Stephan and Linda. Not a franchise, not a large operation with rotating staff. The person who briefs you is the person in the water with you. Same face, start to finish.
Groups cap at four. Often smaller. Site conditions are checked at sunrise, before you even wake up, so the plan is already set by the time you arrive at the shop.
Every guided dive is planned by Stephan or Linda personally — the same people who run Bonaire's only SSI Instructor Training Center.
Here's what applies before we can take you out.
Open Water certification required. Suitable for divers comfortable with self-sufficient buoyancy control. Minimum age 15.
Tell us your certification level and what you'd like to see. We'll help you pick the right dive.
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