Bonaire

Southeastern Divers, Inc.

2720 Governors Drive SW, Huntsville Alabama 35805 - Phone: 256-536-8404

"Training the best divers in North Alabama since 1980."

Countdown till our next Bonaire trip!

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November 2 - 9, 2013

Details Below!

Once again we return to Bonaire. The home of the world’s best shore diving and some of the best diving in the world in general. We have been visiting Bonaire every year since 1991 and year after year our customers continue to go back with us.

What is the appeal? Well obviously the shore diving. Why? What could be better than having the freedom to decide where and when you and your buddy will dive next without having to schedule it with anyone or ask the boat to take you there or wait until the dive shop decides they will send the boat there? You have this freedom 24 hours a day, 7 days a week on Bonaire. When you arrive at your chosen site you will most likely discover there are no other divers there! How cool! Just you and your buddy on a world class dive site all by yourselves! No crowds, no cattle boats, no hassles. This is the way diving should be. You need to try it for yourself.

Bonaire is easy diving also. Easy entries. Bonaire has sites for beginners and experts and all those in between. You can dive from the boats if you want to or you can dive from shore if you want to. The choice is yours and yours alone. Capt. Don’s Habitat, where you will be staying even has a dock just for shore diving on the house reef. The house reef at Habitat is one of the best dives on Bonaire! It’s not just an excuse to get wet. Even our seasoned Bonaire divers will make several dives on Habitat’s reef while on Bonaire just because it’s a great dive!

While on our Bonaire trip you have the option of doing your own thing with your buddy or joining up with the rest of the group. It’s your choice! One day you may decide to join the rest of the group and dive your brains out and the next day take it easy and just do a dive or two with your buddy on the house reef. This really is “Diving Freedom”. On previous trips we’ve made dives at midnight, just before sunrise, in the middle of the night, in the morning, in the afternoon, and all times in between. Again, it’s your choice! Tanks are available for you 24 hours a day. If you wake up in the middle of the night and want to go diving you can!

Combine all this with a world-class dedicated dive resort like Habitat and you have the ingredients for one of the best dive vacations you will ever have. Habitat features nice clean air conditioned rooms, Rum Runner’s restaurant, the “Deco Stop” bar, a fresh water pool, on site underwater photo shop, and one of the best run dive operations anywhere in the world.

Come and spend a week in diving paradise with us! We know you’ll love it!

For more details about the trip and tips for diving and traveling to Bonaire click the button to the left labeled "Let's Dive Bonaire".

Our 2015 Bonaire Trip Schedule

June 20 - 27

November 7 - 14

(apprx. $1800 pp/dbl occ. depending on room category chosen)

Price includes: Roundtrip Airfare from Huntsville, 8 days/7 nights at Capt. Don's Habitat, Full Breakfast, 12 boat dives, unlimited shore diving, taxes, and service charges.)

If you want to go you need to pay a deposit of $250 per person ASAP. Deposits are NON-refundable!!

$250 non-refundable per person deposit due ASAP.

(Deposit is applied to balance due.)

Balance due 90 days prior to departure.

There is no "deadline" for signing up. We have a limited number of seats. Seats are sold on a first-come, first-serve basis until all are sold, and we always sell out. There is no way to predict when that will happen, so to guarantee yourself a seat sign up as early as possible. If the trip were not to sell out, any remaining seats will be released 90 days prior to departure. After that, bookings are made on a space available basis, and space is usually NOT available that close in.

When customers see how many trips we do to Bonaire we are often asked, "Why Bonaire"?

Well, take a look at the 2005 Readers Choice awards from the January/February issue of

Rodale's Scuba Diving magazine.

The following awards are all from the Caribbean/Atlantic category.

Top dive overall dive destination: Bonaire #1

Top shore diving: Bonaire #1

Top marine life: Bonaire #1

Top small animal life: Bonaire #4

Top restaurants: Bonaire #1, #4, #5

Healthiest marine environment: Bonaire #4

Top value: Bonaire #3 ( .6 points behind Cay Sal Bank and Cozumel which were tied for #1. )

Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles (Dutch Caribbean)

Bonaire is a small island, covering roughly 111 square miles, with a width that ranges from 3 to 7 miles and a length of approximately 24 miles. Bonaire is located approximately 50 miles off of the coast of Venezuela. (See map above) Bonaire is the B of the ABC islands with her sister islands of the Dutch Caribbean - Aruba and Curacao.
latitude/longitude (GPS): 12°10' N 68°17' W

Check out: Capt. Don's Habitat (That's where we stay.)

Other popular Bonaire links:

http://www.bonairenews.com (The news and what’s happening on Bonaire)

http://www.infobonaire.com (general information about Bonaire)

http://www.bonairewebcams.com (Live web cams from Bonaire)

http://www.shorediving.com/Earth/ABC/BonaireN/index.htm (Bonaire shore diving North)

http://www.shorediving.com/Earth/ABC/BonaireS/index.htm (Bonaire shore diving South)

http://www.interknowledge.com/bonaire/bondiv01.htm (Bonaire dive site information)

http://www.bmp.org (Bonaire Marine Park website)

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