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Buddy Dive, May, 2005, by Robert Banker, GA, USa ( Reviewer 4 reports). Report 1704.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity	N/A
Dive Operation		Shore Diving
Snorkeling	N/A
Overall Rating
Value for $$	N/A
Beginners
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Comments	We did 18 shore dives and 6 boat dives in 7 days. Wind reversal allowed diving at Wilemstoren Lighthouse, unaffected by 2004 hurricane Ivan. This was our fifth year at Buddy Dive for a reason -- they are great! No hassles. Fruit, cereal, eggs, omelets, sausage, juice, breakfast (comes with the Drive and Dive package), take two tanks in the truck to dive twice, lunch in our room usually PB&J, take two tanks to dive twice more, dinner -- Lions Den, It Rains Fishes, Richards, Buddy's Friday night BBQ, buy fish from Hispanic folks and bake it in the apartment, cook spaghetti brought from home, go to bed, and repeat. Free Nitrox this month! 32% and 36%, our choice (saved $99 each). Variations -- boat dive to sites not reachable from shore, again no hassles. Night dive on house reef with the resident tarpon. Dusk dive to see fish go to bed (yellowhead wrasses dive into the sand -- awesome!). Church service Sunday morning at Trans World Radio. Only bad thing was that our Olympus C-750 pictures colored some underwater stuff with a reddish cast not seen in above water pictures. It allowed a picture to clearly show a frogfish; whereas underwater the fish was so perfectly camoflaged such that a divemaster had to make it move before either of us saw it. If we had known about the wind reversal before leaving home, we could have made arrangements to dive the two East side dive sites. It's unfortunate that Air Jamaica will cease service to Bonaire in August. They have been competent, reliable, and courteous for the past five years.
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	101-250 dives
Where else diving	Grand Cayman
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, cloudy	Seas	calm, choppy, surge, currents, noCurrents
Water Temp	82-84°F / 28-29°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	50-100 Ft/ 15-30 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	Don't leave less than 500 psi in the tank.
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	N/A
What I Saw
Sharks	None	Mantas	1 or 2
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	> 2	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish
Large Pelagics
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities
UW Photo Comments	Rinse tanks for cameras and for cameras and regulators on land. Camera bucket on boat used for masks too.

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Dive Review of Buddy Dive in Bonaire

Buddy Dive, May, 2005,

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Dive Review of Buddy Dive in
Bonaire