Increasing crime in Bonaire

[Jax]

Holy Pi-Fi! Way to resurrect a two Y/O thread!

 

[Lorenzoid]

Holy Pi-Fi! Way to resurrect a two Y/O thread!

Better to start yet another "Bonaire crime" thread?

 

[scubadada]

Holy Pi-Fi! Way to resurrect a two Y/O thread!

Not a single post from pilot fish in this thread. I've been to Bonaire 3 times, used common sense practices, no instances of crime. I would return in a heartbeat. Are there safer places in the Caribbean, probably, maybe Little Cayman, maybe East end of Grand Cayman, perhaps others. You can't run your whole life based on safety, you'd miss so many opportunities. My home in Boynton Beach, FL would probably not fare that well in crime stats, it's a wonderful place to live and dive.

Take care, good diving, Craig

---------- Post added September 16th, 2015 at 03:52 PM ----------

Better to start yet another "Bonaire crime" thread?

It's a concern for people, they're going to discuss it, one way or another

 

[Lorenzoid]

It's a concern for people, they're going to discuss it, one way or another

I am one of them. That's why Jax accused my post of participating in resurrecting a two year-old thread.

 

[tridacna]

and away we go...another 100+ posts to establish absolutely nothing. I say that if you're that worried about the so called crime on Bonaire, do us all a favor and just don't go.

Let's not waste everyone's time debating a decades old issue to which there has never been nor is there likely to be any resolution.

Where is Pilotfish these days anyway? By now, we'd be drowning in all sorts of nightmare gangland style executions at Gios and in the Van del Tweel parking lot.

 

[jimw]

Our group of 17 were on Bonaire in late August. No reported thefts. 1 truck rented for a week and 4 scooters for a day or 2. At Habitat, we had ok gear lockers(take your own lock).

 

[deedeediver]

Some friends of mine went to Bonaire last year, and had batteries stolen out of a truck, and a truck stolen and later found, burnt. The problems there may not be as bad as some of the reports indicate, but there is definitely a major theft problem.

Wow so sorry to hear that about your friends.

 

[gypsyjim]

Holy Pi-Fi! Way to resurrect a two Y/O thread!

We can't have that!

Old threads should die away gracefully, never to be reopened!

Speaking of which....
http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/surface-interval/50551-i-would-love-see-tank-explode.html

 

[scuba127]

Agreed...if it worries you that much don't go....we've been diving Bonaire for 15 years and have never expirienced a theft problem...

 

[gypsyjim]

Agreed...if it worries you that much don't go....we've been diving Bonaire for 15 years and have never expirienced a theft problem...

We have dived Bonaire for nearly as many years.
One minor truck theft, of a cheap pair of sunglasses.

The only real theft we ever experienced on Bonaire was from fellow divers at a resort. No local is going to go into a gearroom, and unscrew an inflator assembly off of a new Halcyon Wing.
The same day, a diver visiting from France reported her dive computer stolen from the same gear room.