Is assembly new buddies and diving Bonaire’s stunning reefs in your bucket record? You gained’t wish to miss PADI’s Complete Membership-Mersion Bonaire, hosted by Buddy Dive Resort, steps from the ocean. Right here’s your alternative to expertise Caribbean diving at its greatest and make lifelong connections with ocean lovers over every week of shared adventures above and beneath the waves. Sea turtles, coral reef restoration, scavenger hunts, PADI Specialties, and most backside time are just some of Bonaire’s Membership occasion highlights.
Let’s Dive Into the Particulars!
- Dates: December 6-13, 2025
- Lodge: Buddy Dive Resort, Bonaire
- Dive Operator: Buddy Dive Resort
- Costs begin at USD $1755 per individual
- Inclusions:
- 8 days/7 nights lodging
- Spherical-trip airport switch
- 7 days automobile rental (handbook transmission, contains insurance coverage)
- 4 days of two-tank boat dives and limitless shore dives
- Floor interval refreshments
- Weight Belt/Weights/Tank(s)
- 6 days limitless air and Nitrox
- Each day breakfast
- 3 group dinners
- Weeklong video games and challenges with prizes
- Reef Renewal and Fish ID shows
- Peak Efficiency Buoyancy Clinic
- Welcome drink, events, and PADI Membership-Mersion swag bag.
About Bonaire
Bonaire is a diver’s dream, with calm water, a shallow drop, and minimal currents – optimum for underwater photographers and newer divers striving to good buoyancy expertise and achieve expertise.
On common, Bonaire’s water temperature hovers round a beauteous 80°F (28°C), with a various aquatic ecosystem of seagrass beds, mangroves, coral reefs and greater than 350 species of reef fish. Bonaire Nationwide Marine Park is a marine protected space and Worldwide Coral Reef Motion Community (ICRAN) website dedicated to defending and restoring its delicate corals and over 50 stony corals.
Turtles, tarpon, eagle rays, angelfishes, blue tangs, parrotfishes, red-lipped blennies, fairy basslets, and seahorses are only a pattern of a few of the mates you may meet on Bonaire’s reefs! Touring solo? Make a brand new good friend in Bonaire!
Bonaire Dive Websites
Bonaire is world-renowned for its considerable shore dives, clear, aquamarine waters, and marine biodiversity. With 80 dive websites surrounding Bonaire Island and close by Klein Bonaire islet, you’ll be spoiled for selection. Plus, you’ll by no means must dive the identical website twice (until you wish to). 5 notable dive websites embody:
- Salt Pier: Straightforward shore entry makes this website fashionable with newer divers and underwater photographers. Massive colleges of fish take refuge beneath the pier’s sponge and coral-encrusted pillars. Search the close by reef for eels, juvenile drumfish, seahorses, and frogfish.
- Bari’s Reef: This accessible dive website is ideal for rookies or divers desirous to refresh their expertise. Look intently when observing the colourful sponges, as what might look like a yellow sponge could be a frogfish. One other spotlight of this website is the considerable Chromis. Nice macro life throughout the coral.
- 1000 Steps: To achieve the water, stroll down the 72 steps (which might really feel extra like 1000 steps with scuba gear). Search for sea turtles as you cruise the shallows of this stunning website. The reef transitions from a gradual slope to a drop off round 29 ft. (9m), changing into a steep wall with vertical grooves. You’ll discover a big number of fish and corals right here.
- Andrea I: Spanish lobster, cornetfish, Tiger Tail Sea Cucumber, juvenile clean trunkfish, and noticed drums are a number of of the distinctive species you may spot at this website. There’s additionally nice snorkeling right here with sea turtles and huge colleges of Blue Tangs.
- Hilma Hooker: This can be a dive for skilled divers. Hilma Hooker is a Dutch cargo ship sunk in 1984 after being confiscated for suspected smuggling. The 236 ft. (72m) wreck lies on its facet simply off the reef on the sandy backside. Inside wreck exploration is allowed with a skilled native information solely, however there’s additionally loads to see on the outside. Search for tarpon and barracudas across the wreck. Enriched air (Nitrox) is advisable to discover extra of the shipwreck at depth.
Reef Renewal
The Complete Membership-Mersion occasion host Buddy Dive Resort is a founding companion of Reef Renewal Bonaire, a consortium of dive retailers, resorts, boat operators and instructors collaborating to revive Bonaire’s coral reefs. On this PADI Membership journey, you’ll have a singular alternative to study Bonaire’s coral reef restoration and discover the work being executed at your leisure. Increase in your expertise by including on the Coral Reef Conservation Specialty course and contributing to the reef renewal. Buddy Dive’s group teaches coral restoration, coral fragmentation, easy methods to work in a nursery, and outplant coral.
You may as well contribute to Bonaire’s coral reef well being by bringing much-needed instruments and supplies in your dive bag.
Who Can Be part of This Journey?
You don’t must be a diver to hitch us on this journey. Non-divers are completely welcome! Whether or not you’re right here to discover topside experiences or simply chill out and soak within the vibe, there’s one thing for everybody.
Journey insurance coverage is advisable, and each diver is required to have dive accident insurance coverage.
Not less than one individual per household should be a present PADI Membership member, and anybody planning to dive should be a licensed Open Water Diver or increased.
Should you’re eager about taking your expertise to the following degree, the next PADI Diver Specialty certifications and experiences will likely be provided as non-compulsory extras throughout the occasion:
- Enriched Air (Nitrox) Diver – Be taught the ins and outs of utilizing enriched air throughout your dives, and luxuriate in shorter floor intervals and prolonged no-decompression limits (NDLs).
Moreover, the next PADI certifications (whereas not provided as non-compulsory extras) are helpful concerns if you wish to share the fantastic thing about Bonaire’s stunning reefs and wildlife with family and friends again house whereas retaining “fins off” its cherished coral reefs.
- Peak Efficiency Buoyancy – Buoyancy management is crucial to changing into a assured, relaxed diver. Discover ways to dive with much less weight, cut back air consumption, and hover effortlessly whilst you transfer in for a better look.
- Digital Underwater Photographer – Share your adventures! Discover ways to use underwater strobes, cut back backscatter, {photograph} marine life, and select photograph gear.
To enroll in this journey and add in your Specialty programs or non-compulsory extras, please contact Buddy Dive on to deal with your reserving. Get able to immerse your self in 8 days of underwater journey, friendship constructing, and experiences!
What You’ll Want
Along with your certification playing cards, dive logbook, and passport, you’ll wish to take a look at PADI’s free Final Scuba Diving Trip Packing Checklist!
