The Bonaire WebCams project is the brain child of Dan Senie and Jake Richter, who, in 1999 decided that it would be a cool demonstration of their technical know-how to implement the world's first underwater reef camera for viewing via the Internet. Since Jake lives on Bonaire, in a house overlooking the ocean, the location of this ReefCam was something of a no-brainer. More details on how the project evolved can be found in our Project History.

In March of 2000, Dan & Jake, via their U.S. corporations, founded Caribbean WebCams, LLC in Norfolk, Virginia in order to provide a vehicle for implementing the Bonaire WebCams project as well as offer their services to companies which are interested in integrating a WebCam solution with their tourism offerings, in particular dive resorts and tourism destinations in the Caribbean. This site, Bonaire WebCams, is the proof of concept for the Caribbean WebCams, LLC vision, which combines technical knowledge of camera systems, networking, and the Internet with customized software to provide a complete tropical WebCam solution which will keep people coming back to client Web sites. As an example, during just the Bonaire WebCams beta-test period, which ran from late March to mid-August 2000, weekday visitation rates typically exceeded 1,000 visitors, with over 1.2 million hits per month.

With the launch of the official site on August 24, 2000, visitation went up over 250% and seems to have been staying there, at around 2500 visitors a day. To handle such a large volume of visitors, Caribbean WebCams hosts the Bonaire WebCam site on a dedicated server located at a facility in Waltham, Massachusetts in the U.S. where a direct 100Mbit network tap ties into an Internet backbone connection at the facility.

In June 2004, the WebCams were moved to a new location on Bonaire - the Eden Beach Resort, courtesy of a number of Bonaire WebCams sponsors.

For more information about what Caribbean WebCams, LLC, can do for you and your company, or for Contact Information, please visit our Web site at www.CaribbeanWebCams.com.

To discuss what's on the WebCams, visit our discussion group at BonaireTalk. For information about the Bonaire WebCams in particular, visit our Frequently Asked Questions page.