cra2:
I'm not sure if you gave answers, or just more questions. lol.
I think you got my point. You ask the unanswerable.
"None, all, some. Yes. Maybe"
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"Bonaire and CoCoView"
As you can see from my sig countdown, I'll be in Bonaire in 30 days. I'm asking about something different, for December. And didn't you post somewhere else that it rains nearly every day in CoCoView in December (even cancelling some dives)?
Twasn't me! It can pretty well be guaranteed that December will be rainy from San Andres to Cozumel, but CCV cancel a dive? Not likely. The boats are specifically designed for this kind of stuff. Some smaller operations may well cancel. Then there's always the CCV shore dive!
"End of hurricane season and you want what? We are talking the Caribbean here, right?"
Not necessarily. I included Central and South American examples.
A fine point of distinction. That which is Hurricane Season in the Mar Caribe becomes the "rainy season" along the Southern and Western shores of the Caribbean Basin. Expect rains from the ABC's, Los Roques, Margueritte, heading west to San Andres and Corn, The Bay Islands, Belize, Cisne, Cozumel and Cancun. One man's hurricane is another's rainy week.
"You're a DIR Cave Diver. I call that advanced."
What makes you think I'm a DIR-certified cave diver?
Well, your profile for one thing. I used to be a cave diver, before I knew that you needed a certification. I am now an "old" cave diver, meaning that I don't do that kind of stuff anymore. I have savored fine cuisine :11ztongue on many continents in the company of a crazed, half-tame wild-eyed :07: Armenian Gypsy (diver) girl... I know there is something else to live for beyond overhead environments!
I joined the DIR discussion group on here, but that's about it. lol.
"Joined" DIR Discussion group? And they let you get a word in edgewise? :11: George3 makes great kool aid, be sure to try the Lime Green. It seems to be a favorite! 
DIR philosophy is superb, and some of their techniques for finning and buoyancy are indeed biblical in importance. It does, however, contradict its own basic premise sheerly by the all-or-nothing approach. My advice: pick and select what you understand that will work for you. Master it all, then cast off what aint right. Then go on to the next religeon of diving skills. Do the same there. Don't be afraid to change your mind, at the same time, don't be swayed by arguments.
It was more to the point of "advanced" diving vs. other types. I see that you have been involved in such discussions before, trying to pin down precise deffinitions of what is advanced vs. beginner. Suffice to say, all diving is different, and if you have done a night dive backroll entry in current off of a small dory and then made a shore exit... that would be pretty advanced... but until you've made a moored boat entry in heavy current and used a john-line to make it to the down line... you don't know how that version works. Every situation is different.
The best of us take advice, pre-plan, ask questions, remain perfectly attentive during dive briefings, ask more questions, and pre-visualize. There is no easy dive that can't kill you.
Serious answer to your question? (as best
I can ever be serious)... Go and enjoy. You are going to love Bonaire! Great shore diving potential, lots to see and do, great restaurants (especially if you get off the beaten path and go to the locals places... be adventurous!)
The Bay Islands seem to fit your needs the best. Unabashedly, I like CoCoView the most of the lot, and I've seen or dove them all.
Once again, though, if seasickness is an issue, do not discount the excellent possibility of the Nekton fleet. The boats are just solid blocks of square steel that move as much as most LA highrise buildings. Their Belize itinerrary is a great time, and you can hold over a few extra days and do the mainland Belize thing with the ruins, the tubing thru the cave, the Belize City Zoo... all the stuff that you do when you'd have been better off diving, but what the heck?
Your dive career isn't done with this trip. There's lots out there in the Caribbean and beyond that is worth a shot. There are some places in the Caribbean (largely the ones that are "easy" to get to) that you should well avoid. Much as we saw Cayman in the 70's, it has changed, and not for the better. The sooner you get to some of the "newly discovered" places, the better.
Then you can tell your kids,
"Belize? Hell, I was there in 2005! You shoulda' seen it back then. Why yes, we were still using NitrOx back then, you little #%&#!whippersnapper!"
Go, have fun. Post your report here.
