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The things we give up for "security".

Bonaire has a ton of unattended vehicles parked in unmonitored places. The petty crime problem is a predictable outcome. It is almost natural. These crimes of opportunity will always happen. We leave nothing in our truck but tanks and water. I wouldn't leave an ipod in the passenger seat of a...

Before we get the obligatory, "most divers have nothing to worry about" post. Yes, that is true. I've never been robbed either. The bodega many of us divers from Eden to Dandy Don's and beyond getting robbed though affects a lot of people potentially. The people who run Zhung Kong stay pretty...

I've emailed both Telerin addresses and not gotten a reply. Starting to worry my favorite car renter may have folded up. Edit: disregard, just had a few days "Island Time" on the reply.

It depends on the Condo you get of course. The main good thing about the Sand Dollar is... you can shop for air from BDA, the onsite Op (i forget the name), or Buddy's next door. I think when we just priced it Buddy was cheaper than BDA for air. Also, you can walk to "Between 2 Buns" each day...

Sounds like someone needs to get an expedited passport.

That was a great dog :-( English Bob was leading a dive group from North Carolina, he wasn't staff. I loved the dinners at CCV, my only bad opinion was the ribs.

I found out that a trip report I posted in the days of yore at scubadiving.com was no longer attributed to me and had lost all of the comments posted on it. I am re-posting it here so at least I'm re-claiming it as mine (it had a lot of comments at SD before the great purge). It was one of the...

A real shame. The Kong is almost a daily stop for me and my buddy. Hope the Police find these armed robbers and chum them off the east side.

Even an older edition is fine.

A chinese market on that street was robbed by three armed men. I assume it is my favorite small market on Bonaire, Zhung Kong. Can anyone confirm? So sad if true.

Chat/Browse closed did it not?

Been to GRI (deceased), Den Laman, Sand Dollar, etc. Wifi is always either spotty or requires slips of paper (yeah, seriously). I just want to get in a room and connect my laptop and tablet so I can upload my pictures and browse reddit (and scubaboard of course). So I was looking at Buddy...

Human Nature. People gotta act like a boss. I hope you showed him Figure 1. ---------- Post added June 20th, 2014 at 08:54 PM ---------- So how is Salt Pier at night?

I was going to post something similar and decided not to. I can't confirm or deny if I do the same thing. After an experience in Roatan at the CocoView where some numb nut put the night dive stobe at the top of the buoy, I had a "never again" moment after getting stung on my hands and face by...

I get it. Provocative title, its cool. Most of the theft reports I hear on the interwebs are from people who experience vehicle or living quarters break-ins. I don't have an axe to grind against the blame-locals-first crowd. This year will be my fifth in a row diving Bonaire. We leave nothing...

The title of your post was: The Bonaire criminal exposed, and it is ........YOU! Maybe just change the title. The content of the post is a good reminder to not trust anybody.

False, it's through bonairetalk that I got the links to police report summaries directly. It isn't just reading anecdotes on their forum. https://www.facebook.com/pages/forum-bonaire/134931953259878

Gloves are forbidden, but you could put baggies over your hands...

That isn't how this works. You make the wild conjecture based on something that happened to you, you have to back it up. The vast majority of Bonaire theft is non committed by divers. This is just a fact. You actually had a good point which is that you shouldn't assume your gear is safe in a...