This FAQ exists to help the various sources that field questions about diving in Bonaire. Refer to/link to this as you please – it is here to help clarify the many questions asked across things such as Facebook groups. This is a new dedicated site – you may have read these before on another site and moving them across to here is a work in progress (thanks for your patience if a few things look a little crappy).

This is not a dive guide, should not be used or considered as one. Dive safely and often, but at your own risk.

FAQ’s

  1. How might the author be qualified to speak to these FAQ’s?
  2. Do I need to wear a Wetsuit while diving in Bonaire?
  3. Diving fatigues me and I’ve heard that for the unlimited shore diving common on Bonaire, Enriched Air (Nitrox) will help?  Is this true?
  4. Do I need to be certified or trained to use Nitrox?
  5. Can I take a Nitrox course on the island?
  6. Can I dive the East side of the island?
  7. Does Bonaire have sharks (context: ‘I’ve heard not’)?
  8. Why do various sources ask that divers DO NOT share (on social media) the location where a photo that includes an animal was taken?
  9. I have been informed that I need to pay some kind of fee just to dive Bonairean water
  10. Where do I pay the Bonaire Nature Fee?
  11. What if I elect not to pay the fee?
  12. What if I choose not to dive?
  13. The Bonaire Nature Fee is expensive and I now also have to pay a visitor tax too?
  14. I own property on Bonaire, do I have to pay the visitor tax?
  15. How do I dive Klein Bonaire?
  16. Do I need a vehicle?
  17. Can I rent a scooter instead?
  18. I am travelling alone, how do I find a buddy?
  19. What is a good place to stay?
  20. Where can I get information about specific dive sites?
  21. When can I dive at the Salt Pier?
  22. Tori’s Reef.
  23. Cliff, Water Plant and Coopers Barge.
  24. I cannot find La Dania’s Leap and about that dive site.