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Your cart is empty.Side 1 of Franko’s Bonaire “fish card” is a mini map of Bonaire and Klein Bonaire with a listing of 86 alpha-numeric dive sites within its underwater National Park. Dive site buoys are installed, numbered and maintained the Council of Underwater Resort Operators of Bonaire (aka “CURO”). Most of the sites around Bonaire (sites 1 through 60 on the Bonaire Franko map) are also accessible from shore. Klein Bonaire sites (sites A through Z on the Bonaire Franko map) must be reached by boat. These sites as they appear on the Bonaire Franko map are listed below. This Franko map/fish card is dedicated to promoting Bonaire’s fabulous underwater scenery, and inspires the viewer to love the reef creatures that inhabit Bonaire’s underwater national park, which entirely surrounds the island(s) and extends to 200 feet deep. The map also includes a miniature globe map for a perspective of just where in the world Bonaire sits. Side 1 is the Bonaire Mini-map, but side 2 is the viewer will find nearly 100 or colorful reef creatures constituting the Reef Creatures Identification Guide portion of the fish card. This fish card is actually waterproof and durable, so divers can take it with them for underwater fish identification, if they wish. The viewer will note that the fish card has a sampling of approximately 100 of Bonaire’s most common and most beautiful reef creatures. However, there are actually hundreds more! The fish card would be huge to actually show them all! However, this is a great sampling of the usual characters, including a few, but definitely not all of the various parrotfishes, triggerfishes, angelfishes, wrasse, filefishes, groupers, grunts, rays, surgeonfishes, sharks, lobsters, corals, sea fans, sponges, mollusks, and much more.
Time For Lunch
Reviewed in the United States on May 14, 2020
My husband and I scuba dive and I always like to have a fish ID card for the places we are diving. Sometimes we end up in less touristy places and they won’t have much in terms of “extras” at the local dive shops. After one trip where I wasn’t able to get an ID card locally I started getting prepared and buying my fish ID cards ahead of time and just keeping them with my dive log so they were ready to go. I do prefer to do business locally, especially with small dive shops, but even if they carry these cards, they are sometimes double the price of Amazon.I have never had an issue with the quality of the Franko laminated cards but I have learned to verify the sizes when ordering online because one time I ended up with a mini ID card that was hard to read and then another time I ended up with one so huge that it was cumbersome and bulky. I had to fold it in half to fit with my dive log because it was twice the size of the regular ID cards. So verify your sizing but Amazon is your best bet for a better selection and price. The cards are thin and easy to carry with your dive log. The pictures are generally clear and easy to see. This is my preferred ID card for dive trips.
Saints Mama
Reviewed in the United States on May 16, 2018
Fast shipping just as pictured
Scott
Reviewed in the United States on September 5, 2015
nice map, lots of information.
MomHecate
Reviewed in the United States on March 31, 2015
Very good little waterproof guide to take with you during snorkeling.
Kindle Customer
Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2015
nice!
Donn Ellerbrock
Reviewed in the United States on March 9, 2014
If you are going to Bonaire, what's not to like. This takes the place of all the paper you would otherwise have to find.
Jemistrulyoutrageous
Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2012
Bought this before I went to Bonaire with my husband. We were planning to do a lot of diving there and wanted to be prepared. In the end, we received a bigger map of the island at our hotel, so we ended up using only the back side with the Fish ID. Got useful when we stumbled upon a few Tarpons and tried to ID them.
GHDave
Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2009
Franko's maps are great. But you can order directly from the pubisher for $8 + $2.50 shipping for First Class Mail. How can anyone charge $6.57 to ship something that weights a few ounces?
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