great fun seeing the surprized look on the boaters faces when they pull u up! and the chargrined look when u tell u are not in season , please catch and release with NO KNOTS IN THE LINE lol
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To the OP's question, Bonaire does not require a dive flag.
As for the wisdom of using one, my opinion is significantly different....
My experience has shown me that a dive flag is nothing more than a target. Your chances of being hit/run over/etc. increase because of one.
This has been my personal experience and that of my friends.
For a dive flag to enhance safety, it presupposes that boaters actually know what one is and what it means. In fact, virtually all boaters have no clue. Hence we see dive flags used as turn buoys, water ski practice, or a magnet for boaters to cruise by and look it over out of curiosity. Occasionally they will try to pull it up, with you attached.
All the best, James
Experience can be a hard task master! In 40 years of diving I've been been around only one diver hit by a boat. . . and the boat driver was a diver, on drugs. Many times I've had boaters run over my dive flag (required by Oklahoma Law). Did the boaters know what the red and white flag meant, of course. Their attitude like the boat in your picture, They have the most expensive boat, and we have to move out or their way. $80,000 bass boat, they own the lake. . . ask them.
I always fly a dive flag. . . I always surface some distance away. . . always.