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Does the perception of crime or safety affect your travel plans?
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I posted this elsewhere, but it fits this discussion:
I wish I had some way of accessing the number of divers who actually visit Bonaire in a year. It would be an amazing figure. Diving is what Bonaire is all about. Shore diving, with @60 sites, mostly accessible by road. More if you go to the adjacent island of Kline Bonaire by boat
Figures just do not exist to compare this volume of diving tourism, to the actual crime rate, but after 6 o7 or so trips to the island, and many conversations with divers with vastly more experience on Bonaire, I have to believe that it has really effected a VERY small percentage of us. Crime does exist, and if it happens to be you that it happens too, it will suque big time, but the odds are really very small that it will happen to you. Shore diving, that sets Bonaire apart from other dive destinations, can expose divers to some pilferage risks not present on destinations where divers primarily dive in large groups, and from boats, but from personal experience this is very small, if you follow the precautions suggested.
No one can tell you where to go, but I personally have dived destinations far more dangerous than anything Bonaire could offer on it's worst day, and my kids, my gf, and I return to Bonaire at least once a year, and it is to Bonaire that we intend to move when we retire, after looking in MANY other places, both in the southern USA, and other Caribbean nations.
No BS, just my personal observation, experience, and opinion.
I wish I had some way of accessing the number of divers who actually visit Bonaire in a year. It would be an amazing figure. Diving is what Bonaire is all about. Shore diving, with @60 sites, mostly accessible by road. More if you go to the adjacent island of Kline Bonaire by boat
Figures just do not exist to compare this volume of diving tourism, to the actual crime rate, but after 6 o7 or so trips to the island, and many conversations with divers with vastly more experience on Bonaire, I have to believe that it has really effected a VERY small percentage of us. Crime does exist, and if it happens to be you that it happens too, it will suque big time, but the odds are really very small that it will happen to you. Shore diving, that sets Bonaire apart from other dive destinations, can expose divers to some pilferage risks not present on destinations where divers primarily dive in large groups, and from boats, but from personal experience this is very small, if you follow the precautions suggested.
No one can tell you where to go, but I personally have dived destinations far more dangerous than anything Bonaire could offer on it's worst day, and my kids, my gf, and I return to Bonaire at least once a year, and it is to Bonaire that we intend to move when we retire, after looking in MANY other places, both in the southern USA, and other Caribbean nations.
No BS, just my personal observation, experience, and opinion.
You be careful there, ya hear RJP. they're gonna steal those dive boots right off your feet 
just ask pee-ef :mooner:
just ask pee-ef :mooner:
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We are off to Bonaire in a few weeks.
Nothing I've read on SB has changed my mind.
I've read a few reports of crime on the Island, but nothing that suggests there is more crime on Bonaire then you would find in other places.
I've also read other websites, newspapers, ... again nothing suggests that crime is more rampant on Bonaire that anywhere else.
Still really looking forward to our trip!!
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