Diving The Hilma Hooker in Bonaire

Written by David Howell

After spending 25+ years successfully leading application development activities at an enterprise level, David moved toward pursuing his own passions full-time. He travels the world with his wife, Leslie, exploring nearby shore dives and remote atolls from liveaboards. Together, they document their adventures at TropicLens.com.
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November 9, 2021

Our six month stint in Bonaire has sadly come to an end; but we will return in June…hopefully as residents!

That said, our last video winds things up with Bonaire’s largest wreck…the Hilma Hooker. It is a very large 240 feet (73 meter) ship with lots of areas to explore. The cargo holds are open and quite often have tarpon hanging around. There are also a few swim throughs for those that are good with their buoyancy. Despite being known as a wreck site, we saw three new animals including a spotted spoon-nose eel, a western comb grouper and a couple of leather-backed platydoris which are in the in nudibranch family.

Check out our entire adventure below.

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