Buddy’s Dive Questions

[ScottsdaleSteve]

My advice - the house reefs can be dived every day multiple times times a day and not get old and you can see something new on every dive.

Agree 100% with your house reef assessment. Do one shallow. Do one medium depth. Do one deep. Go north. Go south. Do one really slow and look in every nook and crannie - Bonaire is a fantastic macro destination.

Don't dismiss/discount a Bonaire house reef just cuz people call it a "house reef".

 

[OMyMyOHellYes]

If you continue up north past Cap'n Don's past the La Machaca to the water plant, there's a sunken barge. It's deep though - IIRC between 110 and 140 fsw. I quizzed the staff at Buddy Dive about whether they had dived it and nobody seemed to know it was there. Or at least didn't admit it. I found on the guided dives off of BD, the DM's really didn't want to go any deeper than 60 fsw, so they may just not want to encourage diving to greater depth (they didn't care if you went deeper on the boat splashes if you had the right training/certs, but they kidna implied (or I inferred) that if you did it was at your own risk).

COOPERS BARGE, Bonaire, Dive Site Information

Van de week lekker decoduikje. Wrak lengte gemeten 22,5 mtr lang. Was fun

www.divers-guide.com

 

[arew+4]

The food trucks have there spots for sure, you see one somewhere on Monday they are probably there on Friday, Bachelors Beach might be gentleman's reef in the queens English has one or two, windsock is often frequented by Cactus Blue. ( Lion fish burgers, really a fish sandwich but they are really good, grouper like).Kite City has a truck, there is a converted double decker bus somewhere.

When are you headed there?

If you are looking to maximize bottom time the house reef is definitely your friend. You will see very different creatures out and about through it the day, there is a definite "shift change", also allot of day to day variation on the larger faster moving creatures. If you slow down and look closely you can have different dive every time even if you only hit the same "site"

 

[schuylerclark]

Give Bari reef a try using the new park to access. Easy parking and access. Food and drink bathroom at the park.

Definitely. The park at Bari is absolutely the easiest entry/exit on the island, like boat ramps for divers. There's a sidewalk and handrail leading into the water. Don't miss the shower to rinse off at the smaller entry/exit, plus there are bathrooms, tables and food. Ask the attendant and you can usually pull your truck down to the restaurant to unload gear and then go park it. 5 stars for access!