Place to find current water temps?

[staggsSevin]

Hey Guys,

Is there a place to find the current water temps for Bonaire? I searched around but I wasn't able to find one. Headed there on March 1st for a week.

 

[jimw]

I have asked the same question before a trip--hated to take too little wetsuit.....someone mentioned the temps seen here Bonaire Dive and Adventure 78-84F. For me-that means taking a 3 mil and skins or heavy skins with some thermal benefit. Looking at a seasurface temp map on the tropical weather section of, wunderground.com , looks like about 78F now.......

If you ask this question on, bonairetalk.com ,some locals and tourists will likely answer.

 

[wwguy]

Here's an underwater webcam at 50' on Curacao, 30 miles west of Bonaire, that displays water temperature. My experience has been that the temperature displayed here is +/- 1 degree F from what my Oceanic dive computer reports while diving on Bonaire.

| Seesubmarine ? This live view of Curacao marine life is presented to you by Substation Curacao

 

[tursiops]

75F? Good bet both it and your Oceanic are reading low! My Oceanic reads 4.5F low (calibrated against a good thermometer).

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[wwguy]

75F? Good bet both it and your Oceanic are reading low! My Oceanic reads 4.5F low (calibrated against a good thermometer).

Out of curiosity and winter boredom I just just compared both of our dive computers against ambient air temperature readings from our electronic HVAC thermostat, indoor/outdoor weather station, immersion style digital temperature probe (like used for cooking etc.), and my Fluke 787 process multimeter with Type-K thermocouple sensor. Our dive computers don't indicate decimal point precision, so I rounded all reference instrument readings to the nearest whole number. Without true traceable calibration references for comparison all I could come up with was an assumption based on consensus of my other instruments. But assumptions are my specialty.

My wife and I have the same model computer and it turns out that both indicate similar readings of about 1 degree below the reference instruments in both air and water. I also learned that my electronic HVAC thermostat is probably reading a couple of degrees higher than actual temperature, which explains why my wife always has it set at 72 degrees!

The water surrounding Bonaire turned unusually cold in late December and early January. We were seeing temperatures of 75 to 76 degrees between Christmas and the 1st week in January. We were wearing 4/5 mm full suits and 2mm beanies. My wife even layered a 1 mm short-sleeve top under her wetsuit. We were pretty chilled at 60 minutes and borderline hypothermic at 75 minutes on repetitive dives. I have no idea if the water is really 75 degrees right now, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was close to that.

 

[meagicano]

My computer has been consistently reading between 80-81F on all the dives I've done over the past week, 79F came up on a few the week before.

I've been chilly in a 7/5/3 and broke out my hooded vest for a couple of dives.

 

[warmwaterturner]

I always have likes this site......check the buoys in the area.

National Data Buoy Center

 

[tursiops]

I always have likes this site......check the buoys in the area.

National Data Buoy Center

The nearest buoy (42059) is about 200 miles north....but does show 80!

 

[j7842911]

42059

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[staggsSevin]

75F seems cold for bonaire, I'll take the 80F Thanks for all of the posts!