During the CVID-19-pandemia, I was stuck on this wonderful island of Bonaire for several months. The best thing I could do was to go diving every day and improving my... read more diving skills.

Thanks to the super friendly instructor Floor from Dive Friends Bonaire I learned so much during my PADI specialty courses. It was the perfect mixture of serious training and fun. Like on our Wreck Diver Course we did not only feel very excited and secure while penetrating Hilma Hooker, but Floor also showed us also some very interesting animals and coral.

Try if you can spot the frogfish on the video I made on this occasion:

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The next courses I took were deep diving and Nitrox. The course quality was excellent, too.

Highly recommended dive shop
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  My wife and I have been going to Bonaire for 30 years. We returned last month when she surprised me with a belated 40th birthday present. We have dove with... read more Dive Friends every time we have visited. This year we stayed at Den Lamen and dove with the onsite shop shared with the Sand Dollar. As always the staff was very friendly and helpful. We only shore dive so the grab and go tank pick ups are sooooooo easy. If you go to Bonaire to dive you must dive with Dive Friends. We can't wait to return next year.

  Finished open-water certification with awesome instructor Kimberly Betz in Bonaire March 2020 with Dive Friends. Kimberly was fantastic - calm, patient, encouraging, knowledgeable, an all-around great instructor! If I go... read more back for additional training I'll ask for her by name. Thanks, Kimberly!!

  In planning my trip to Bonaire, I knew I needed to complete my open water dives to finish my certification- Dive Friends Bonaire was the perfect group for this! I... read more scheduled my two-days of dives well in advance with them online which came with the rental gear I needed. The prices were reasonable to rent gear for the remainder of the trip as well and the staff is super helpful! Kimberly was an AMAZING divemaster and was so incredibly patient with our group (truly went above and beyond). The way she explained all of the skills was so easy to understand and she gave us tons of helpful pointers that I really realized were extra helpful when I started diving with a small group without a divemaster. On our second day, Julia stepped in as well to assist with our group so we could split up to practice the skills, making it much more efficient which I really appreciate (I just get anxious and want to get out there and explore haha). Can't thank these two enough- they were amazing. Thank you Dive Friends!!

  I took the Open Water Diving certification course and was extremely happy with the training and the overall experience. The instructors for both the theory and skills training were... read more very thorough and patient and made the 3 and a half day training a very memorable experience - thank you Martine and Kim!

There are many instructors (divers from all over the world) and the 'school' had a wonderful energy and vibe. Thank you Annie, Yolanda, and so many others for being so helpful and friendly. My wife did not take the course but she was welcomed and felt very comfortable hanging out there when she had to wait for me or meet me at lunch, etc.

The school is within an easy walk from the town center and is located right in front of it's own confined area and 'home reef' so all the skills training and the checkout dives took place across the road from the school. They offer all kinds of diving options - specializations in various aspects of diving (night diving, underwater photography, etc.) - as well as guided dives from shore and boats.