Cochise86
Registered
Bonaire East Coast Diving
For our second stay on Bonaire for a diving vacation, we went for the second time with Bonaire East Coast Diving for the morning 2 tank
boat dives and again we were delighted. Just as the first time, the operation is top notch with the most thorough briefing I experienced
through my 300 dives baggage.. The first dive was light drift over Funchi Reef looking out for the big stuff...big turtles, big stingrays,
big Eaglerays, big morays...After a surface interval at the Sorobon pier, we were back on the Rib boat for the second dive which was a
"combination" dive, starting off with the White Hole, a sandy patch lined with a vertical wall on your right and a sloping reef on your left.
Everything is in this hole....tarpons, stingrays, eaglerays,schools of Grunts and Snappers at the edge of the wall plus turtles at their
cleaning station, even a resident seahorse! Then you get out of the White Hole and do a five minute stroll in thousands of undulating sea
fans in shallow water(approx. 8-12 feet) and reach Turtle City,where in 20 to 30 feet deep you hover over so many turtles that you stop
counting....And these turtles are huge!
These dives are good for any type of diver, beginners included, that has good control of their buoyancy. If you have any issued with your
buoyancy, I would suggest you skip diving the East Coast....
First dive lasted 56 minutes as the second dive was 63 minutes. The condition were excellent for the East coast which can be "rougher" than the
usual West Coast dive sites, but nobody of the divers aboard had any issue getting off(backroll) or on, using a ladder.
The dive op did provided us with Nitrox and small tanks(63 cu.ft.) as requested when booking the dives.
I really enjoyed diving with Bonaire East Coast Diving and will do it again next time we are on Bonaire!
Thank you Fred, Martin and Syd!
For our second stay on Bonaire for a diving vacation, we went for the second time with Bonaire East Coast Diving for the morning 2 tank
boat dives and again we were delighted. Just as the first time, the operation is top notch with the most thorough briefing I experienced
through my 300 dives baggage.. The first dive was light drift over Funchi Reef looking out for the big stuff...big turtles, big stingrays,
big Eaglerays, big morays...After a surface interval at the Sorobon pier, we were back on the Rib boat for the second dive which was a
"combination" dive, starting off with the White Hole, a sandy patch lined with a vertical wall on your right and a sloping reef on your left.
Everything is in this hole....tarpons, stingrays, eaglerays,schools of Grunts and Snappers at the edge of the wall plus turtles at their
cleaning station, even a resident seahorse! Then you get out of the White Hole and do a five minute stroll in thousands of undulating sea
fans in shallow water(approx. 8-12 feet) and reach Turtle City,where in 20 to 30 feet deep you hover over so many turtles that you stop
counting....And these turtles are huge!
These dives are good for any type of diver, beginners included, that has good control of their buoyancy. If you have any issued with your
buoyancy, I would suggest you skip diving the East Coast....
First dive lasted 56 minutes as the second dive was 63 minutes. The condition were excellent for the East coast which can be "rougher" than the
usual West Coast dive sites, but nobody of the divers aboard had any issue getting off(backroll) or on, using a ladder.
The dive op did provided us with Nitrox and small tanks(63 cu.ft.) as requested when booking the dives.
I really enjoyed diving with Bonaire East Coast Diving and will do it again next time we are on Bonaire!
Thank you Fred, Martin and Syd!