My Dad and i are staying at Captian Don's from 22febr - 4 mrch.
Will be my 2nd time on Bonaire. Was back in 1999 at Sand Dollar and had a beautiful time. Did a "discover scuba" course back then, and an additional bootdive!

My Question is which PADI certificate is needed to get a "tanks & air" package, to drive of for the first dive in paradise... (we intend to get assistance of local Divemaster on first dive(s)).
(some suggestions on what car-rental company is good?)

We are PADI "open water" certified in the cold and low-visional waters of Holland (Vinkeveense Plassen).

Marco,

PADI Open Water certification is sufficient to rent tanks.

Jake

Thanks Jake for the answer!

We have the dutch version of the PADI "advanced" set, so we can learn the theoretics before coming to BONaire and hopefully get certified in a few days over there.
I think it's usefull to have the Navigation-, Deep- and Nightdive speciality while the average depth is +18meter at many places.

Here a set of pictures i took at Sand Dollar back in 1999, before Lenny came...
(Hope the image will get on the site, it's all to me)

Here a set of pictures i took at Sand Dollar back in 1999, before Lenny came...
^{(Took some nice pictures of The Green Parrot 2)}

Hope to make Photo's in 21days!!

Marco...great patched picture! but have you seen it since Lenny?

Hello Meryl, have found pictures of it at a few locations, was sad by the view of the distruction by Lenny, it was a very nice place when i was there!

At: http://www.shorediving.com/Earth/ABC/BonaireN/Bari_Reef/index.htm you can see it fairly good.

http://www.sonic.net/~jmp/images/bonaire00/greenparrot1.jpg and
http://www.sonic.net/~jmp/images/bonaire00/greenparrot2.jpg and
http://www.sonic.net/~jmp/images/bonaire00/greenparrot3.jpg and
http://www.sonic.net/~jmp/images/bonaire00/greenparrot4.jpg show enough...

We got to Sandollar a week after the storm...We were pretty shocked at the loss of the Parrot....Great memories though...