nitrox monthly /yearly rating

[wwguy]

Wow, that's incredibly expensive! I pay $40 for a 10 tank card in Hawaii, which is usually more expensive than Bonaire for all things diving.

The Dive Friends tank card works out to be $11.66 per tank, including tank rental and nitrox. IMHO that's hardly "incredibly expensive", on Bonaire or anywhere else in the world.

I know that on Maui nitrox is $12 to $15 per tank in addition to $40 to $50 for a 10 tank air fill card, depending on which shop you go with. Some also charge an additional $7/day tank rental fee on top of the fill. Even without the rental fee the low end of the nitrox rental range works out to about $16/tank.

 

[MaxBottomtime]

I pay $4 for air and $8.33 for nitrox using fill cards in SoCal. I couldn't imagine spending $175 for 15 tanks...anywhere.

 

[AdivingBel]

I pay $4 for air and $8.33 for nitrox using fill cards in SoCal. I couldn't imagine spending $175 for 15 tanks...anywhere.

Does that include tank rental? If so, that's a good deal.

 

[wwguy]

I pay $4 for air and $8.33 for nitrox using fill cards in SoCal. I couldn't imagine spending $175 for 15 tanks...anywhere.

Then you're not going to be doing much diving in the Caribbean or South Pacific. Many continental U.S. dive shops literally give away air to keep customers returning for more gear and instruction that those divers mostly use elsewhere. There's little or no profit in the prices you mentioned. They'll be lucky to cover energy and maintenance costs with that price structure. Good on you if you can get fills for that price, but your LDS has to pay rent somehow.

 

[KeithG]

It all depends who you use (and where you stay). Divi offers 6 days of unlimited shore diving for $195. How many dives are you doing each day? But I think that only works for divers staying at the Divi. So the room cost may drive the actual price up a bit?

 

[MaxBottomtime]

Then you're not going to be doing much diving in the Caribbean or South Pacific.

That would be fine with me. I've never found warm water diving to be very fulfilling. My favorite vacation so far has been British Columbia.

 

[wwguy]

That would be fine with me. I've never found warm water diving to be very fulfilling. My favorite vacation so far has been British Columbia.

Umm... Okay. Whatever floats your boat. I'm sure there's great diving in SoCal and in B.C. But then why in the world are you posting in this this forum on this topic?

 

[MaxBottomtime]

I was curious about the thread title. Am I not allowed to post here?

 

[wwguy]

I was curious about the thread title. Am I not allowed to post here?

I'm sorry, I didn't mean it like that. Of course you're welcome to post here.

I just seemed strange (to me) that your posts were about the reasons you're not interested in visiting Bonaire. You didn't provide any context other than you can get cheap air at home and you're not a big fan of warm water diving. So it seemed curious that you were following and posting in this forum on this topic. Do you do that in other sub-forums dedicated to other destinations you're not interested in visiting either? Seems to me like that kind of "curiosity" would keep a guy pretty busy.

There's certainly no shortage of negative posts in this forum. But most are in context of people who have been to Bonaire or are considering visiting in the future. You made it clear that you're in neither of those categories, thus my comments.

 

[DiveMaven]

The Dive Friends tank card works out to be $11.66 per tank, including tank rental and nitrox. IMHO that's hardly "incredibly expensive", on Bonaire or anywhere else in the world.

I know that on Maui nitrox is $12 to $15 per tank in addition to $40 to $50 for a 10 tank air fill card, depending on which shop you go with. Some also charge an additional $7/day tank rental fee on top of the fill. Even without the rental fee the low end of the nitrox rental range works out to about $16/tank.

On Bonaire many operators have free nitrox upgrades, which to my mind means nitrox costs the same as air. That's why I would always compare the price of both nitrox and air on Bonaire to an air tank anywhere else. I've only ever paid for air on Bonaire, but have always gotten nitrox.

And on Maui, my 10 tank card for $40 is for air AND tank for 24 hours.