Best Dives in Bonaire

[Diver DennisP]

try http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/abc-islands/268513-what-cant-miss-dive-sites-bonaire.html

My wife and I started it a while back

 

[Diver DennisP]

damn, did that wrong

 

[KY_BOB]

Great. ScottyD and myself are staying at Den Laman, a little ways from GRI. Gypsyjim and several other SB members are also on island that week. I am real easy to pick out, I am the only one on the island diving a old double hose reg with bright yellow hoses. Same reg but I dive a differnet harness these days, it's now black. The shot was taken at Buddy Dive on Bonaire. The island in the background is Klien Bonaire (Little Bonaire).

Trust me, you can spot that reg from a mile away.

 

[Mike]

The Salt Pier is a really good dive also. DM escorted only now afaik. And only open when there's no ship loading.
Town Pier is another good dive but it's only done at night. And might be closed now due to the cruise ships docking there. Which might've also ruined it, the best part of that dive was the cup corals and seahorses you could find - I'm hoping they haven't been silted over or scared off by the cruise traffic.

When we were there a few weeks ago we were told the salt pier can be dived with no local DM or any local notification to anyone anymore. We dove it twice, once as a day dive and once as a night dive. (Day dive was 10 times better then the night dive.)

We were also told the Town Pier is closed with no idea if it would ever be open again.

 

[DeputyDan]

Great. ScottyD and myself are staying at Den Laman, a little ways from GRI. Gypsyjim and several other SB members are also on island that week. I am real easy to pick out, I am the only one on the island diving a old double hose reg with bright yellow hoses. Same reg but I dive a differnet harness these days, it's now black. The shot was taken at Buddy Dive on Bonaire. The island in the background is Klien Bonaire (Little Bonaire).

Herman: Don't you know that it is physically impossible to dive a rig like that.

 

[Kukuisa]

try http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/abc-islands/268513-what-cant-miss-dive-sites-bonaire.html[/URL

My wife and I started it a while back

There is only missing one bracket at the end of the url. With that it looks like:
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K.

 

[tc_rain]

For me, I like Karpata.

 

[DiverVince]

Herman..That double hose reg looks like a US Divers Aquamaster. Is it?

 

[herman]

Herman..That double hose reg looks like a US Divers Aquamaster. Is it?

Yes and no. It started life around 1965 as a DA Aquamaster. A couple of years ago I added a Phoenix nozzle to it (adds HP and LP ports, Titan HP internals and a heavy yoke) so technically it is now a Phoenix Royal Aquamaster. It also has reproduction silicone hoses, modified mouthpiece valve cages with silicone valves, a silicone diaphram, silicone duckbill and a reproduction Voit mouthpiece so to some extent it's a Frankenstine reg. It dives well and the fish don't seem to be as afraid of it so getting close with the camera seems to be easier. And as KyBob knows, it makes me very easy to pick out under the water. It has become my reg of choice if I am not with a class.

 

[herman]

Herman: Don't you know that it is physically impossible to dive a rig like that.

So I have been told on several occasions.....but then again I always was hard headed and rarely believe what I am told..