Full tanks, rinse-facilities, gear-lockers and a secured private parking; All available on the premises for guests only.
Just back up your pickup truck to the end of the parking-lot where you can find the gear-lockers and the full tanks awaiting you.
The aluminum tanks (international) are available in 2 sizes; 80 Cuft and 63 Cuft.
We also offer Enriched air Nitrox. Standard available is Nitrox 32, but we can accommodate you up till Nitrox 40. A very friendly priced (temporary from only $ 95.- for two !!) upgrade to the use of unlimited Nitrox 32 is now available on our 2008 dive-packages.
Big freshwater rinse-tanks to rinse of the salt and sand.
After rinsing you can hang your gear to dry in the large and comfortable personal gear-lockers. Lockers, locks and hangers are provided by us at no additional charge.
All these facilities are available for you 24/7.
Our Dive Services
Mandatory before starting diving on Bonaire is a Marine Park orientation. The morning after your arrival - or for red eye arrivals the morning of your arrival - we will inform you about the Marine Park regulations, fill in the paperwork and tell you what you can expect diving the pristine Bonairian reefs. Please, do not forget to bring proof of your certification!
After this part of the orientation we go out for your orientation-dive. This 15 to 20 minute shore-dive is simply meant to help you to set up your (rental) gear, to advise you on proper weighting and to double check this all underwater. If you prefer some more help and guidens for your first dive on Bonaire just let us know in advance or during your Marine Park orientation, then we will set up a refresher dive for you. If you prefer your refresher dive to be a private one, only you and your dive-buddy, no problem at all, please do make your reservations for this in advance, so we can make the time available for you.
The dive-packages we offer all include unlimited shorediving for your full stay. If you like to have some boat-dives as well, you can book a package which includes 4 or 8 west-coast boat dives. There is no need to have experience in boatdiving, opportunities enough to get that here.
On general we offer two-tank trips in the morning and if there is gusto enough (4 pers.) for a one-tank afternoon
trip we will set that up. For the real dedicated boat-divers we can set up an all day 3-tank boatdive-trip as well. This trip gives us the change to go all the way North into the Washington Park Slagbaai for the first dive and we will work our way back down South for the next dives. Be aware, this trip might be somewhat bumpy!
For the beginning divers, or for the divers who did not dive for some time, we recommend booking a package including some boat dives. There is always a DM on these trips who helps you with everything and guides the dives. Of course can we set up one or more guided shore-dives to get you started again if you do not want to do any boat dives.
We can add these to your dive-package or we can arrange this for you at your orientation. We can also set it up as private dives; Just you and your buddy, no others, so all the time to get used (again) to scuba diving.
Shore-diving:
Bonaire is world-wide kind of famous for the ease of shore-diving. Just gear up and walk in and the reef starts on general about 20 yards from the shoreline. Just you and your buddy, where you prefer to go and when you prefer to go. No need for a guide and no need to have any others around you if you don't want that. It's that simple on Bonaire. About 50 shoredive sites are awaiting you.
We strongly recommend using hard sole booties since the shoreline and entries are pretty rocky.
Boat-diving:
We offer boat-dives the way we think is the right way; relaxed atmosphere, no tight schedules, flexible departure times, small groups (up till 8 divers max), lot's of diving freedom and ……. fun !!!.
Boat diving is recommended for the divers who do like some extra help with their equipment and offers you the opportunity to dive at the dive sites not accessible from shore and takes you to the dive sites around Klein Bonaire.
Our custom build boat, unofficially called 'My Office', is a for diving designed RIB (Rigid Inflatable Boat) and is capable of handling all sorts of circumstances and even the rough waters of the Bonairian east-coast.
This very stable 25 Ft powerful boat is equipped with all needed safety equipment and makes the ride to the dive-sites very comfortable and fun. Boat-dives are offered to all marked and to not marked dive-sites on the west coast of Bonaire and to Klein Bonaire.
We even can set up trips to the not yet discovered east-coast of Bonaire with this boat. Depending on the circumstances, the experience the divers have and their special wishes we can set up all sorts of trips. You name it, and we will do our very best to arrange it.
Each fall we offer boat-diving to the Bonairian east-coast. The circumstances that time of the year are on general a lot friendlier and even might look pretty easy, but we do require that the divers have about 50 logged dives beyond entry level and are physical fit. Experience in boat-, drift- and multi level-diving is recommended but not required. We do not offer east-coast-diving in a package, we want to see first if the experience and especially the expectations the divers might have actually fit the circumstances.
For the real experienced diehard divers we can offer divetrips to the east-coast "all year round". Just to make sure that we get the right kind of divers for these trips we will only sell divetrips to divers whom we have actually met and we have seen under water. The requirements are set quiet higher then during the fall, because it will be rough, windy and sometimes even tricky. The marine live that you might encounter and the total thrill of this exciting trip can make it worth it to go through this "torture". We are not going to commit ourselves to offering this trip, we have to look at the circumstances first. The divers, the boat and the crew will be pushed to the limit and if the circumstances are beyond the capability of our boat and crew we will be happy to call Larry for you. If he takes his real mean dive-machine out we are more then happy to make the arrangements with him for you.
Our Dive Training
For the not yet certified we offer a package which includes an introduction to Scuba Diving, the PADI Discover Scuba Diving course. Maybe you want to go on for your full certification after this experience or maybe you just want to enjoy some open water dives without doing a course – very well possible and, this does not have to be pre-arranged. Of course do we offer the full PADI open water certification course. If you are planning to do the full certification course it is recommended to book this in a package ahead, so we can schedule this in for you.
For the newly certified divers who like to gain some more experience under guidens and do want to improve their dive-skills we offer the PADI advanced course. Five fun dives, some academics, no exam, a great experience and a certification pass when finished.
For beginners in underwater photography we can sign you up for the PADI digital photo specialty. This two day specialty will be set up for you at Fish-Eye Photo. The experts in (digital) photography on the island!!!
New at the Deep Blue View is a package which combines both the PADI advanced certification course and the PADI digital photography specialty. Six fun adventure dives resulting in two PADI certifications!!
During the months of August & September we offer this package at a discounted rate. Please check out this and other specials we offer this year here.
If you don't want to do the full (two-day) PADI certification course, we can sign you up for a one day course. Just as much fun, but, no certifications pass at the end. Please do make your reservations for these courses in advance with us –- you won't regret it!
Our dive-packages include everything you need for diving except equipment. Of course do we offer all equipment here for rent. If you want, we can add the needed equipment to your dive-package, just let us know what your needs are and we can make you a quote. We use discounted rates (up till 30% on the daily rates) for adding the needed equipment to your dive-package!
We just love it to make your dive-vacation the perfect one no matter what your level of experience is. Click here to check the diversity in dive-packages we offer. You can also contact us and inform us about your special wishes. It would be our pleasure to tailor you a dive-package to your special needs.
Group rates are available during low-season. Our dive-packages are not commissionable and can only be offered in advance in combination with a stay at the Deep Blue View B&B.
