By Gerald Huppertz (BonaireTalker - Post #46) on Saturday, February 2, 2008 - 4:33 am: |
Does anyone know if the STINPA pass is a yearly pass, ie good from Jan 1st to Dec 31st. Or just valid for 1 year from date of purchase. We got our passes last October and are heading back in April. Will we need to buy new ones or should we bring our old ones?
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By Brian Back in March (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #3537) on Saturday, February 2, 2008 - 5:47 am: |
The pass is valid for a calendar year - Jan-Dec, so you will need to buy new passes for 2008.
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By LT Dan (BonaireTalker - Post #13) on Sunday, February 3, 2008 - 10:49 am: |
They actually expire earlier in December. We were there this past Christmas, and had passes we had bought in March but still had to buy the new ones.
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By Kobi in Virginia***Trip in May (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #4369) on Sunday, February 3, 2008 - 10:55 am: |
Wow!! LT....never heard such a thing. Would never expire early December but would on December 31st.
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By Jim McPeak (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #1304) on Sunday, February 3, 2008 - 11:03 am: |
I was there this past Christmas as well. We left on January 1st. We had also been there last June into July. Our STINAPA tags were good until December 31st. If you were diving past 12/31, you would have to buy a new one.You could be right Dan, but our dive shop said we were good when we got there on 12/22.
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By Jim McPeak (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #1305) on Sunday, February 3, 2008 - 11:10 am: |
Dan, I found this. It says one calendar year. Now is a calendar year from Jan 1 to December 31, or is it from date of getting tag to one calendar year later? I don't know. I would assume that a calendar year would be 1/1 to 12/31.
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By Ron Gould (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #1350) on Sunday, February 3, 2008 - 11:40 am: |
Calender Year is 1/Jan 31st/Dec
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By Brian Back in March (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #3548) on Sunday, February 3, 2008 - 1:18 pm: |
They used to start selling the new tags on Dec 1st so if you are there Christmas to early Jan you will buy the new tag rather than the current year and not need to renew on Jan 1st.
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By Tad Jones (BonaireTalker - Post #91) on Sunday, February 3, 2008 - 1:21 pm: |
Hey guys,
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By marge karalis (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #659) on Sunday, February 3, 2008 - 1:23 pm: |
Never asked, but you can't get tanks with one.
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By pat murphy (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #1432) on Sunday, February 3, 2008 - 1:54 pm: |
we were approached a few years ago. i think we were down south, maybe near invisibles or in that area. two stinapa people stopped, asked to see our tags, and did a short survey. i think we might have been asked one other time but i don't remember for sure.
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By bob...no april showers) (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #2497) on Sunday, February 3, 2008 - 1:58 pm: |
i've been carded my last two trips
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By Kobi in Virginia***Trip in May (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #4377) on Sunday, February 3, 2008 - 2:42 pm: |
In 14 years we have only been asked to show our tags once; we were at the Hooker The guy who asked was someone we knew anyway; Ikky was his namo
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By LT Dan (BonaireTalker - Post #14) on Sunday, February 3, 2008 - 3:12 pm: |
We were surprised too, thought for sure our 2007 tags were still valid. We did our orientation at Buddy's on Dec 21st, and they made us buy the new tags. We go every year so it is not that big a deal, but I would hate to think they ripped us off, we have always dove with Buddy's and it's a good operation.
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By LT Dan (BonaireTalker - Post #15) on Sunday, February 3, 2008 - 3:14 pm: |
We were surprised too, thought for sure our 2007 tags were still valid. We did our orientation at Buddy's on Dec 22st, and they made us buy the new tags. We were there until the 29th. We go every year so it is not that big a deal, but I would hate to think they ripped us off, we have always dove with Buddy's and it's a good operation.
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By Tad Jones (BonaireTalker - Post #92) on Sunday, February 3, 2008 - 3:33 pm: |
I beg to differ Marge,
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By Tad Jones (BonaireTalker - Post #93) on Sunday, February 3, 2008 - 4:00 pm: |
Kobi,
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By marge karalis (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #660) on Sunday, February 3, 2008 - 4:22 pm: |
I'm just surprised you will able to get an air card without the pass.
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By pat murphy (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #1436) on Sunday, February 3, 2008 - 4:31 pm: |
maybe it's that you can't get an air card without a park pass. we dive thru carib inn and when you buy the park pass you are assigned a tank and the tank number is written on a sheet for the guys to record how many times they fill your tanks. we don't have to show our pass when we fill our tanks but we couldn't have gotten the tanks to begin with if we didn't already have the passes.
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By Tad Jones (BonaireTalker - Post #94) on Sunday, February 3, 2008 - 5:44 pm: |
So like....you are assigned a tank or tanks, and they make note of the number of refills?
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By pat murphy (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #1440) on Sunday, February 3, 2008 - 5:52 pm: |
we always waited for our tanks to get filled. now that we have our own tanks there (two each) we always have a full one with us. we did notice a problem last year with one of the ops that was letting their people take as many tanks as they wanted. some of the other guests went to get tanks and there were none available. a large group had come in earlier and had taken about five per diver. if i had been staying at the place and had come in for tanks only to find out that they were all gone i would have been pretty upset.
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By Kobi in Virginia***Trip in May (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #4383) on Sunday, February 3, 2008 - 7:11 pm: |
Ikky and Ibby were two fellas we met years and years ago on Bonaire Ikky used to work at Rum Runners and now, I think, he still works for the park. Rocky (another SUPER guy) used to work at Green Parrot and we dove a few times with him. He's in the states now; NC. Ibby would always be at the little local gym when we'd get there late afternoons. Nice, local guys we would see every year in the old days.
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By Brad Ford (BonaireTalker - Post #13) on Monday, February 4, 2008 - 10:13 am: |
"I've always admired Bruce, and not had the pleasure of meeting him yet!!!....... but that sounds like a pain in the butt!!"
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By Tad Jones (BonaireTalker - Post #96) on Monday, February 4, 2008 - 11:29 am: |
Brad,
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By Tad Jones (BonaireTalker - Post #97) on Monday, February 4, 2008 - 12:03 pm: |
Kobi,
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By Kobi in Virginia***Trip in May (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #4397) on Monday, February 4, 2008 - 7:09 pm: |
LOL, Tad. You just got a little sh*t slapped out of you though We definitely use the Buddy Dive secret hidey key when night diving.
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By Tad Jones (BonaireTalker - Post #98) on Monday, February 4, 2008 - 8:52 pm: |
Ms Mare,
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By Kobi in Virginia***Trip in May (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #4402) on Monday, February 4, 2008 - 10:53 pm: |
Hey, I was behind you!!! Look at my slaps***.
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By Mel Briscoe (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #181) on Monday, February 4, 2008 - 11:51 pm: |
We use our tags as ornaments on our Christmas trees, along with the little parrots and flamingos from the drinks...
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By Tad Jones (BonaireTalker - Post #99) on Tuesday, February 5, 2008 - 10:20 am: |
Kobi,
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By Greg Grimes - Is it August 2008 yet? (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #104) on Thursday, February 7, 2008 - 2:29 pm: |
Last month, we had finished a dive at Witches Hut and migrated down to Ol Blue for a surface interval. While setting on the truck bed relaxing there were a few other divers going in as well as coming out and a Park Ranger pulls in and he proceeded to have everyone stop what they were doing and check all divers including us who were not even suited up. He had a palm pilot and the whole nine yards and asked where we were staying, where we were getting the tanks and how many cameras we were diving with. I felt like I was taking a marketing survey! Upon his departure he broke out some super high powered binoculars and was really interested in a boat that was out about a 1/2 a mile. Not sure how that part turned out.
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