Bonaire Advice

[herman]

Have you encountered this type of key in Bonaire? While I've seen this type of key elsewhere, I've never seen them on Bonaire dive truck rentals. In 11 trips to the island we've never had a rental company ask us to keep their keys dry. However we have had several request that we rinse them after diving. I continue to clip my keys inside my BC pocket.

When my wife is diving with me she carries the truck keys and some cash in a small Otter box like you described, also clipped inside her BC pocket. These little boxes are great. We use the OtterBox Drybox 1000. It's rated to 100' and only costs about $12.

I have last summer, it was a regular key but had an additional fob on the key ring. My solution was to remove the fob and lodge it in an inconspicuas place under the dash near the ignition key hole and take the key with me. Worked fine all week and I put them back together at the end of the week.

 

[Tunaman68]

I bought an witz case to store my key, a few bucks and my drivers license during our week. I tucked it under my dive skin so it wouldn't float up in my face. During a dive on Angel City at about 80' I heard a bang, and felt like something had punched me in the chest - scared the holy crap out of me!!! The witz case had suffered a catastrophic decompression and split open. After that, I clipped the truck key (as well as our room key which were both just metal) to my BC using a small carabiner and threw a couple of bucks and my license in a ziploc bag in my bc pocket.

As others have mentioned, the stores seemed very used to getting wet money!! We left the windows on the truck down, put our flip flops and sunglasses under the spare tanks in the back of the truck and left the towels and water bottles in the cab. No problems all week! Another piece of good advice was to take an extra bottle of water or two (buy a couple and refill them - the tap water on Bonaire tasted wonderful), and put one on the roof of the truck for a lovely warm water face rinse after the dive!

Have Fun!

 

[djtimmy77]

On our last trip the truck key/fob was one piece. of course, the fob was already toast from previous divers so we just put the key in my boardshorts pocket.