This FAQ exists to help the various sources that field questions about diving in Bonaire. Refer to/link to this as you please – it is here to help clarify the many questions asked across things such as Facebook groups. This is a new dedicated site – you may have read these before on another site and moving them across to here is a work in progress (thanks for your patience if a few things look a little crappy).
This is not a dive guide, should not be used or considered as one. Dive safely and often, but at your own risk.
FAQ’s
- How might the author be qualified to speak to these FAQ’s?
- Do I need to wear a Wetsuit while diving in Bonaire?
- Diving fatigues me and I’ve heard that for the unlimited shore diving common on Bonaire, Enriched Air (Nitrox) will help? Is this true?
- Do I need to be certified or trained to use Nitrox?
- Can I take a Nitrox course on the island?
- Can I dive the East side of the island?
- Does Bonaire have sharks (context: ‘I’ve heard not’)?
- Why do various sources ask that divers DO NOT share (on social media) the location where a photo that includes an animal was taken?
- I have been informed that I need to pay some kind of fee just to dive Bonairean water
- Where do I pay the Bonaire Nature Fee?
- What if I elect not to pay the fee?
- What if I choose not to dive?
- The Bonaire Nature Fee is expensive and I now also have to pay a visitor tax too?
- I own property on Bonaire, do I have to pay the visitor tax?
- How do I dive Klein Bonaire?
- Do I need a vehicle?
- Can I rent a scooter instead?
- I am travelling alone, how do I find a buddy?
- What is a good place to stay?
- Where can I get information about specific dive sites?
- When can I dive at the Salt Pier?
- Tori’s Reef.
- Cliff, Water Plant and Coopers Barge.
- I cannot find La Dania’s Leap and about that dive site.