How does one go about finding the Hooker???

Tod, Drive to the south, find the stone marked Hilma Hooker, get in the water and head towards the mooring bouy. There used to be 3 of them. You can also do it underwater, just take a good compass heading. It's a great to see it coming out of the blue.

There are two buoys- the one to your left as you face the water is the bow and it is the deepest- but somehow (well, OK, it was my fault) we started at the right hand one- so we just did a circle and came back. If you go early enough (and we were there before nine am) the crowds are smaller (we had no one at all with us).
When are you going back to the Sorobon? We are now dedicated lovers of the Sorobon lifestyle. Have never met such a friendly group of people!! Can't wait to go back!!
You could also go to Shoredives.com- they have all the Bonaire sites with pictures of what the entrys look like and reviews and such- they were nice to have (we printed off ALL of them) as we drove up and down- we were going to leave all the pages at the desk at the Sorobon but I don't think that we did.

Tami, I thought there were three bouys? One on both ends and one in the middle? Maybe that's changed since I was there.

I have done it both as a shore dive and as a boat dive, and I love both. Descending from the boat dive is great, but seeing it after you come over the edge of the reef is great too. Do both !

I thought that there were three as well- and the dive site report that we had said three- but I only saw two- one at each end of the ship. Was the third one the boat mooring? I just might have not been paying attention- but I had thought that I remembered them being in a triangle. It was easy enough to find the wreck!! Thank goodness for decent vis!! (you can see it from the surface since the stern is only in about 60 feet.) (Don't I sound spoiled? I just expect good vis all the time!!) Since watching Survivor-Palau now I can't wait to go dive down there- can't believe how clear that water is!!

The 3rd buoy is in shallow water (25') closer to shore. We did a drift dive from Hilma Hooker to The Lake last week. We let the current move us slowly for 15 minutes from the prop & then surfaced. We probably could have let 3-4 more minutes go by and been closer to the mooring buoy - I just didn't want to go past the entry, as it was a long way to the next site.

I usually take a compass heading between the 2 buoys. It gives me a little room for error.

I thank you all once again for the help, I'm sure that I'll have some more dive Qs by the time we get back to Bonaire 17 - 24 Sept (198 more days).

I also tried the sight mentioned by Tami (Shoredives.com) and it was not found does any one know if the url has changed???

I looked it up- its www.shorediving.com. It profiles all the sites on the ABC islands and has reviews and where to park and how easy it is to enter/exit. I liked it.

I am profoundly delighted that no cad, bounder or otherwise miscreant ne're-do-well has opined that a proven method is to sit at the end of the bar with a LARGE pile of cash in front of your martini.

Hey Randy, you should let these secrets out, everone will be doing it!

PS I prefer Gin.

Dave