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Belmar Bonaire: "Belmar Apartments - Bonaire Diving", Oct, 2015, by Mark Thorne, NC, US ( Contributor 15 reports with 4 Helpful votes). Report 8662 has 1 Helpful vote.
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Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving
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Comments	Delta flights from RDU to Atlanta to Bonaire. We left at 6:00am and were at Belmar Apartments in Bonaire at 2:00pm. Attended mandatory hour plus Bonaire orientation at 3:00pm. Belmar Apartment dive/facility staff were all professional and helpful. Belmar apartments are huge and well appointed with absolutely gorgeous views of the ocean from any of the 22 apartments. We stayed in Barracuda room 22, penthouse which is a 3 bedroom, 2 bath apartment with a very large & spacious outdoor patios. We loved everything about Belmar except the bathrooms in the penthouse are hot with no cross ventilation. The layout of Belmar is perfect for divers and everything has easy access to dive lockers, rinse tanks, air and nitrox tanks, etc, etc. Our Nissan rental truck was in great shape and drove smoothly but you must know how to drive a stick. The Belmar house reef (Sarah's Reef) is nice with many squid, turtles, and fish. We stayed a week in mid October and went to 7 shore dives including Oil Slick Leap, Andrea II, The Cliff, LaMancha, Buddy's Reef, Alice in Wonderland, & Salt Pier. We also did a few am dives with East Coast Divers which we loved. Despite some reports, diving the east coast was not that rough and we found it very safe and easy diving with a great crew. This is our 3rd trip to Bonaire and the first time we did only shore dives ... we much prefer the freedom of shore dives vs boat dives anyway. Another piece of disinformation surrounds the petty crime on Bonaire. We talked to a lot of divers & residents on Bonaire and came away believing there is absolutely not difference between petty crime on Bonaire and that of most places of similar environments in the US. Here's the bottom-line, any place where your vehicle is left in a desolate, out-way-locations, with no one around ... you should not be surprised if some amount of theft may happen. With that being said, we did not find anyone who experienced any problems. We did leave our vehicle unlocked with nothing of value visible. Again, I would not worry about it.
Websites	Belmar Bonaire
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	251-500 dives
Where else diving	All over the caribbean
Closest Airport	BON	Getting There	Easy direct Delta flight from Atlanta
Dive Conditions
Weather	dry	Seas	calm, no currents
Water Temp	82-84°F / 28-29°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	100-150 Ft/ 30-46 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	None
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	None	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	> 2	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish
Large Pelagics	N/A
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities	N/A
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities
UW Photo Comments	[None]

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Dive Review of Belmar Bonaire in Bonaire

Belmar Bonaire: "Belmar Apartments - Bonaire Diving", Oct, 2015,

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Dive Review of Belmar Bonaire in
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