Activity PADI Scuba Diving
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Dive Friends Bonaire @ Sand Dollar
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
Adaptive Services
Equipment Rental
Staff
- PADI Instructors
- 40
Languages
- Dutch
- English
- French
- German
- Spanish
Conservation awards
- Eco Center
Marine life
Marine Life
Surgeonfish
2126 known dive sites · 65 countries
Marine life
Reported around Aruba, Australia, Bahamas and 62 more.
Green Turtle
2342 known dive sites · 77 countries
Marine life
Reported around Aruba, Australia, Bahamas and 74 more.
Stingrays
3354 known dive sites · 91 countries
Marine life
Reported around Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Australia and 82 more.
Snapper
2686 known dive sites · 77 countries
Marine life
Reported around Aruba, Australia, Bahamas and 74 more.
Barracuda
3075 known dive sites · 91 countries
Marine life
Reported around Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Australia and 81 more.
Shrimp
3328 known dive sites · 91 countries
Marine life
Reported around Aruba, Australia, Bahamas and 83 more.
Moray eel
4444 known dive sites · 91 countries
Marine life
Reported around Albania, Argentina, Aruba and 83 more.
Octopus
3974 known dive sites · 93 countries
Marine life
Reported around Albania, Argentina, Aruba and 83 more.
Damselfish
3562 known dive sites · 83 countries
Marine life
Reported around Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Australia and 80 more.
Triggerfish
2519 known dive sites · 74 countries
Marine life
Reported around Aruba, Australia, Bahamas and 71 more.
Angelfish
2873 known dive sites · 81 countries
Marine life
Reported around Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Australia and 78 more.
Crab
3583 known dive sites · 95 countries
Marine life
Reported around Argentina, Aruba, Australia and 85 more.
Lobster
2720 known dive sites · 86 countries
Marine life
Reported around Aruba, Australia, Bahamas and 79 more.
Pufferfish
2272 known dive sites · 72 countries
Marine life
Reported around Aruba, Australia, Bahamas and 69 more.
Parrotfish
3048 known dive sites · 78 countries
Marine life
Reported around Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Australia and 75 more.
Hawksbill turtle
2037 known dive sites · 62 countries
Marine life
Reported around Aruba, Australia, Bahamas and 59 more.
Wrasse
3660 known dive sites · 80 countries
Marine life
Reported around Aruba, Australia, Bahamas and 77 more.
Lionfish
2463 known dive sites · 75 countries
Marine life
Reported around Albania, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba and 72 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.
Rays
180 known dive sites · 52 countries
Marine life
Reported around Australia, Belize, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba and 49 more.
Coral
425 known dive sites · 71 countries
Marine life
Reported around Australia, Bahamas, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba and 68 more.
Grouper
170 known dive sites · 42 countries
Marine life
Reported around Australia, Bahamas, Belize and 39 more.
Scorpionfish
3075 known dive sites · 81 countries
Marine life
Reported around Aruba, Australia, Bahamas and 78 more.
Squid
1631 known dive sites · 75 countries
Marine life
Reported around Aruba, Australia, Bahamas and 72 more.
Tarpon
221 known dive sites · 30 countries
Marine life
Reported around Australia, Bahamas, Barbados and 27 more.
Goatfish
2379 known dive sites · 73 countries
Marine life
Reported around Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Australia and 70 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
Bari’s Reef (30)
Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba
A small jetty runs along the northern section of this dive site where plenty of fish hide like octopus, crabs, lobsters, etc. An easily accessible shore dive suitable for all levels of divers.
Nearby
0.1 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
0.3 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.
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
0.4 km away. This shop may organize trips here.
Buddy’s Reef (29)
Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba
One of the most popular dive sites in all of Bonaire, Buddy’s Reef is a very easily accessible shore dive perfect for beginners and experienced divers. It sits right off the popular Buddy’s Dive Resort and is their house reef.
Nearby
0.4 km away. This shop may organize trips here.
Reef Scientifico (28)
Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba
This spot is named after the research done here on the growth of corals on specially designed grids. Also nice for a night dive or snorkeling adventure.
Nearby
0.5 km away. This shop may organize trips here.
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