Activity PADI Scuba Diving
Dive shop profile
Dive Friends Bonaire @ Retail & Dive
KralendijkAbout this dive shop
Dive Friends Bonaire offers some of the best diving and dive services Bonaire has to offer. As a PADI 5 Star IDC Dive Center, we welcome divers of all ages and experience levels — from kids’ programs and beginner courses to continuing education and professional-level dive training. We are also the only Avelo Dive Center in the Caribbean. With 7 dive shops across Bonaire, you are never far from your next dive adventure. Visit us at Hamlet Oasis, Sand Dollar, Retail & Dive, Yellow Submarine, Dive Inn, Port Bonaire, or Delfins Beach to pick up or drop off tanks, arrange dive activities, or find everything you need for both below and above the water at our 3 retail locations, REEF, ARENA and Dushi Store. Dive Friends Bonaire is not tied to just one resort, which means divers staying anywhere on the island are welcome to dive with us. We make shore and boat diving as easy and convenient as possible, starting with a Marine Park orientation offered daily between 09:00–11:30 and 14:00–15:30. Whether it is your first visit or your tenth, we are here to make your Bonaire diving experience easy, memorable, and friendly.
Activities offered
Activity Conservation
Activity PADI First Aid - EFR
Activity PADI Snorkelling
Services
Facilities
Equipment Rental
Equipment Service & Repair
Payment Methods
Staff
- PADI Instructors
- 40
Languages
- Dutch
- English
- German
- Spanish
Marine life
Marine Life
Manta Ray
571 known dive sites · 41 countries
Marine life
Reported around Aruba, Australia, Belize and 38 more.
Eagle Ray
2283 known dive sites · 74 countries
Marine life
Reported around Aruba, Australia, Bahamas and 71 more.
Stingrays
3354 known dive sites · 91 countries
Marine life
Reported around Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Australia and 82 more.
Green Turtle
2342 known dive sites · 77 countries
Marine life
Reported around Aruba, Australia, Bahamas and 74 more.
Hawksbill Turtle
2037 known dive sites · 62 countries
Marine life
Reported around Aruba, Australia, Bahamas and 59 more.
Moray eel
4444 known dive sites · 91 countries
Marine life
Reported around Albania, Argentina, Aruba and 83 more.
Angelfish
2873 known dive sites · 81 countries
Marine life
Reported around Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Australia and 78 more.
Barracuda
3075 known dive sites · 91 countries
Marine life
Reported around Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Australia and 81 more.
Scorpionfish
3075 known dive sites · 81 countries
Marine life
Reported around Aruba, Australia, Bahamas and 78 more.
Lionfish
2463 known dive sites · 75 countries
Marine life
Reported around Albania, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba and 72 more.
Snapper
2686 known dive sites · 77 countries
Marine life
Reported around Aruba, Australia, Bahamas and 74 more.
Surgeonfish
2126 known dive sites · 65 countries
Marine life
Reported around Aruba, Australia, Bahamas and 62 more.
Parrotfish
3048 known dive sites · 78 countries
Marine life
Reported around Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Australia and 75 more.
Triggerfish
2519 known dive sites · 74 countries
Marine life
Reported around Aruba, Australia, Bahamas and 71 more.
Wrasse
3660 known dive sites · 80 countries
Marine life
Reported around Aruba, Australia, Bahamas and 77 more.
Damselfish
3562 known dive sites · 83 countries
Marine life
Reported around Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Australia and 80 more.
Goatfish
2379 known dive sites · 73 countries
Marine life
Reported around Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Australia and 70 more.
Pufferfish
2272 known dive sites · 72 countries
Marine life
Reported around Aruba, Australia, Bahamas and 69 more.
Octopus
3974 known dive sites · 93 countries
Marine life
Reported around Albania, Argentina, Aruba and 83 more.
Squid
1631 known dive sites · 75 countries
Marine life
Reported around Aruba, Australia, Bahamas and 72 more.
Shrimp
3328 known dive sites · 91 countries
Marine life
Reported around Aruba, Australia, Bahamas and 83 more.
Lobster
2720 known dive sites · 86 countries
Marine life
Reported around Aruba, Australia, Bahamas and 79 more.
Crab
3583 known dive sites · 95 countries
Marine life
Reported around Argentina, Aruba, Australia and 85 more.
Coral
425 known dive sites · 71 countries
Marine life
Reported around Australia, Bahamas, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba and 68 more.
Rays
180 known dive sites · 52 countries
Marine life
Reported around Australia, Belize, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba and 49 more.
Sharks
279 known dive sites · 51 countries
Marine life
Reported around Albania, Australia, Bahamas and 48 more.
Grouper
170 known dive sites · 42 countries
Marine life
Reported around Australia, Bahamas, Belize and 39 more.
Jackfish
1276 known dive sites · 64 countries
Marine life
Reported around Aruba, Australia, Bahamas and 61 more.
Cuttlefish
2132 known dive sites · 60 countries
Marine life
Reported around Australia, Bahrain, Belize and 57 more.
Opening hours
Closed now- Monday
- 08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
- Tuesday
- 08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
- Wednesday
- 08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
- Thursday
- 08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
- Friday
- 08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
- Saturday
- 08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
- Sunday
- 08:00 AM - 05:00 PM
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Where this dive shop may take you
Dive sites around Kralendijk
Something Special (32)
Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba
This dive site lives up to its name: Something Special because it is just that. An incredible amount of biodiversity calls this reef home; it’s filled with an incredible mixture of hard and soft corals. The sandy areas have discarded rubble that acts as a fantastic artificial reef.
Nearby
0.1 km away. This shop may organize trips here.
Yellow Submarine
Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba
Enter next to the pier at Yellow Submarine and head straight out to the reef. Top of reef is around 6 meters, bottom is around 30 meters. Watch out for boat traffic.
Nearby
0.3 km away. This shop may organize trips here.
Éden Beach Point
Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba
This is located at the resort of the same name. Right between Front Porche (31) and Harbour Village. So you can let the dive flow into one of the other 2 spots.
Nearby
0.4 km away. This shop may organize trips here.
Harbor Village Bonaire
Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba
From the resort of the same name you can dive into the water from the beach or from the boat. Beautiful reef puts different lives. Be careful not to dive into the harbor entrance!
Nearby
0.4 km away. This shop may organize trips here.
Front Porch
South America, Caribbean Netherlands, Bonaire
Front porch is located at the sandy beach of the Eden BEach resort, it is not knownfor its coral reefs but for its old pieces of metal: steel pipes, wreck parts. It attracts a wide variety of marine life: Trumpet fish, trunk fish, scorpion fish, school of horse eye jacks, soap fish, large groupers, moray eels and much more. There's a wreck here as well. It's a ten-meter tugboat at 24-28 meters, on the rightside of the beach. The tug lies upside down with the bow northwards. The shallows in front of the beach is a nursery for new elk horns, which are grown in the nursery of the dive center.
Nearby
0.5 km away. This shop may organize trips here.
Front Porche (31)
Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba
Front Porche is a shore accessible dive site not well known for its outstanding reef, but for its scraps. The site is littered with steel pipes, wreck parts, and old machinery. This interesting mix of artificial reef attracts a wide array of marine life.
Nearby
0.5 km away. This shop may organize trips here.
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