What are the police doing to end the crime on Bonaire? - thread split

[pilot fish]

To show you how serious the Gov of Cozumel is in preventing crime, and how stern the resorts are about safety for the tourists, the life's blood of the island: when the cleaning lady comes to your room and sees money or something of high value left out, the security guard comes to the room and makes a report of it. That is both protection for the cleaning lady and the tourist. Rental cars are parked in a secure, well lighted area. Bonaire might want to employ some of the security measures used in Coz.

I'm not dissin on Coz, i love the place but it ain't perfect either.

Go back in town and look at all the cast iron security doors and grates on windows or local homes and businesses. I've had a battery stolen out of my rental car there but also had a dive buddy get a regulator he left at Chankanaab returned to him the next day. Some people are honest and some are crooks anywhere you go.

Anyone who doesn't know the score in Bonaire by now hasn't even been trying to research it out. If one can't accept the precautions you need to take while there then don't go there. It's pretty simple really.

I chose to keep visiting there because the diving is great. Accepting some of the consequences that go with that is easy in my case. Bonaire is what it is. Somehow i don't think trying to change it with an attempt at provocative rhetoric on SB is going to change anything.

It's nice to know that some things on SB never change and PiFi is one of them.

 

[pilot fish]

Yes, I have. Your opinion of my opinon is suposed to be important in what way? It's OK to have a different opinion. Would you agree?

Pilot Fish ----You have never been to Bonaire, Your opinion of Bonaire means nothing to me and I am sure to many others here.

 

[DennisS]

To show you how serious the Gov of Cozumel is in preventing crime, and how stern the resorts are about safety for the tourists, the life's blood of the island: when the cleaning lady comes to your room and sees money or something of high value left out, the security guard comes to the room and makes a report of it. That is both protection for the cleaning lady and the tourist. Rental cars are parked in a secure, well lighted area. Bonaire might want to employ some of the security measures used in Coz.

That may be hotel policy but it isn't the government of Cozumel

 

[Docc]

Hey Jim....wanna do the Windjammer with me when DNY hits Bonaire in 2011? It's a fantastic dive! We can take my rent-a-truck.

 

[gypsyjim]

Hey Jim....wanna do the Windjammer with me when DNY hits Bonaire in 2011? It's a fantastic dive! We can take my rent-a-truck.

Where is your lunch, towel, wallet and video rig that you are supposed to leave in the truck?

Dam. Wish I could Docc, but it is a bit beyond my certification level at this point. Your report of that dive really made me hunger for doing the dive, but I have a bit of training and new gear purchasing, ahead of me first. :depressed:

But then by 2011, I may have corrected some of this situation.

 

[Mossman]

That may be hotel policy but it isn't the government of Cozumel

Not to mention that the larger resorts, i.e. Buddy, Capt. Don's, Plaza, etc., do have secured lit parking with a guarded gate and/or guards on patrol all night. They have safes in the room for valuables and recommend their use just like hotels all over the world including the U.S. and Canada and even Cozumel.

In Roatan, however, the place I stayed at only had one safe for all the guests and you had to store your cash with them and then request it a bit at a time for safety's sake. Meanwhile, Mexico's murder rate is soaring and kidnapping rampant, if not yet in Cozumel, definitely in nearby Cancun. It's only a matter of time. Thank God for civilized and safe dive locales like Bonaire :cool2:

 

[shoredivr]

Hey Jim....wanna do the Windjammer with me when DNY hits Bonaire in 2011? It's a fantastic dive! We can take my rent-a-truck.

Mmmmm, Windjammer, it's on my list.

Any sidemount gear in there, Docc? That's what I'm dragging along next time I go to Bonaire.

 

[Docc]

Mmmmm, Windjammer, it's on my list.

Any sidemount gear in there, Docc? That's what I'm dragging along next time I go to Bonaire.

Yep. It's all sidemount. We did sidemount the whole week including the Windjammer.

 

[pilot fish]

I've read on this board, over the years, that stuff drying on patios, balconys places like that, outside the rooms, have gotten robbed in those places. Is that true? Never happened to me in Coz

The murder rate you correctly mention is all drug related and has not infected Coz, yet.

yes, that happened to me in Roatan also, one safe and you had to go downstairs to get stuff with two keys. Not good. Was that at FIR?

Not to mention that the larger resorts, i.e. Buddy, Capt. Don's, Plaza, etc., do have secured lit parking with a guarded gate and/or guards on patrol all night. They have safes in the room for valuables and recommend their use just like hotels all over the world including the U.S. and Canada and even Cozumel.

In Roatan, however, the place I stayed at only had one safe for all the guests and you had to store your cash with them and then request it a bit at a time for safety's sake. Meanwhile, Mexico's murder rate is soaring and kidnapping rampant, if not yet in Cozumel, definitely in nearby Cancun. It's only a matter of time. Thank God for civilized and safe dive locales like Bonaire :cool2:

 

[ScubaSteve]

Where is your lunch, towel, wallet and video rig that you are supposed to leave in the truck?

Easy. The picture you are looking at is actually a crime scene photograph used by the police on Boanire to try to recover Docc's towel and lunch after it was stolen