Buddy Dive Resort will celebrate 40 years of Hilma Hooker Diving in 2024
On September 12, 2024, it is exactly 40 years ago the Hilma Hooker sank.Ā
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Buddy Dive Resort presents 2024 Instructor Development Course Dates
We proudly present the 2024 IDC dates!
Announcing Buddy Dive Thru the Lens
From August 26 ā September 2, 2023, Buddy Dive Resort will host THE event on Bonaire for underwater photographers.
Buddy Dive Resort looks back on a great 11th edition of Bonaire TeK
During the most significant technical diving event in the Caribbean, our guests enjoyed demos and tryouts with the newest equipment, presentations from renowned names in the industry, and lots of exciting and fun tec dives.
Buddy Dive Resort Bonaire Announces New PADIĀ InstructorĀ Development Course Dates
The courses offerĀ the perfect preparation for a career in the dive industry. Our Course Directors and IDC Staff Instructors transfer their years of practical experience with great enthusiasm.
When choosing Buddy Dive Resort for an Instructor Development Course, IDC candidates will learn the tricks of the trade at a resort that has been known for its top diving operation for 40 years.
A new era for Buddy Dive TeK
This signals the end of an amazing and successful chapter for the tec diving at Buddy Dive. Mr.
Buddy Dive Resort Bonaire
The resort opened its doors for the first time on August 19, 1980, and itās a sure thing that a lot has happened and changed since then.
When talking to guests who stayed with us before they will most likely have a lot of stories from back in the day, which they can share with you.
Martien van der Valk, head of the Buddy Dive Family looks back: āWhen my wife Ingrid and I obtained Buddy Dive Resort & Watersports back in 2002, the resort only had 46 apartments, a small dive operation with 3 boats and 20 rental cars.ā
Bonaire - A Diver's Paradise
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JP Bresser
The small island of Bonaire is part of the island group called the Dutch Caribbean and is located in the southern part of the Caribbean Sea near the coast of Venezuela. Bonaire is formed by volcanic rock about 60 million years ago and later covered with coral stone. These processes created a landscape with hills in the northwest, terraces in the middle and flatland in the south.