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Stingrays do it on the bottom

Absolutely brilliant dives. My first dives at the eastcoast of the new year and we weren`t disappointed. On the first dive we went to fungi, as soon as we jumped off the boat and went down we spotted two very large southern stingrays doin the...

Posted by Rob on 2010-03-10 | 0 comments | Read All »

Ready for tomorrow

Today no guests, but tomorrow we have 10 in the morning and 2 for the afternoon single tank dive so far. We're hoping that shark season is finally starting. Also the turtle breeding season started, so we can expect a lot of them. The weather is...

Posted by Ger on 2010-03-09 | 0 comments | Read All »

A movie with Dos Winkel

Today, we went out with Dos winkel and a large filmcrew, a lot of our Dutch customers remember Dos from his beautiful article in Duiken Magazine about Bonaires East Coast (visit the Press page to view the article) or from one of his books like...

Posted by Gijs on 2010-03-08 | 0 comments | Read All »

A new start

The Dutch Antilles are beautiful islands and it’s a great privilege to be able to live and work here. Especially when you are working in the diving business, which does not really feel like working. But when something goes wrong, like a broken...

Posted by Wietze on 2010-03-07 | 0 comments | Read All »

Boat operational again

Hello you all, The new engine has been installed on the boat. After a series of tests we are now fully operational . We updated several things on the boat and repaired stuff that needed repairing, so we hope to see you at the East Side again. Nice...

Posted by Ger Boermeester on 2010-03-05 | 0 comments | Read All »

LET'S GO DIVING AGAIN!!!

Starting tomorrow, we'll be going out to the East Coast again! To be honest, we cannot wait to get back in the water again. Our new engine has arrived, it's been installed and everything is working perfectly so please join us soon on a dive trip to...

Posted by Webmaster on 2010-03-03 | 1 comments | Read All »

Temporarily closed!

Dear East Coast Divers, Due to a defective bulgepump we had more damage than we had hoped for to one of the engines. We hope we get the part within a week and be up and diving again. Happy new year.

Posted by Webmaster on 2010-01-07 | 0 comments | Read All »

Het was weer fantastisch

Vandaag, dinsdag 22 december, was weer een mooie duikdag. We zouden de twee duiken doen die we wel vaker hebben gedaan. Ik zou duik één op Funchi's Reef doen, en Bas dus de Hole als duik twee. Wij, Manon, Ward en ik...

Posted by Ger Boermeester on 2009-12-22 | 0 comments | Read All »

Nurse sharks!!!

Last Thursday our Dutch friends Hans and Eddy Dunlop joined us @eastcoastdiving. Ger dove with them the first dive and they saw a few stingrays, some turtles and a very nice sized octopus, not a bad dive at all like we are used to. The Dunlop...

Posted by Bas Geurts van Kessel on 2009-12-20 | 0 comments | Read All »

Turtles do it too

Like all other dives when something unexpected happens, I immediately want to write it down in this captain's log. Today, we had two divers from Scandinavia on board. Wietze did the first dive, where they saw the usual creatures like sting-...

Posted by Ger Boermeester on 2009-12-09 | 0 comments | Read All »

Diver missing?

Just the thought of it can give a dive guide nightmares. One moment you still have all your divers and a bit later you are missing one. The movie Open Water is a diver's bad dream but all the more so for divemasters. Now Bonaire is not...

Posted by Wietze Koopman on 2009-12-04 | 0 comments | Read All »

Nederlanders

Vandaag hadden we weer een overdosis Nederlanders op de Oostkust. Kennelijk begint het nieuws dat je makkelijk aan de Oostkant kunt duiken als je met BECD meegaat langzamerhand ook in Nederland door te dringen. Van de 8 duikers kwamen er 7...

Posted by Wietze Koopman on 2009-12-03 | 0 comments | Read All »

Afternoon diving

The double tank dives in the morning are the most popular of our East Coast dives. We do schedule single tank afternoon dives, but most guests want to do two dives on the East Coast. Today we honoured a special request and did a...

Posted by Wietze Koopman on 2009-11-20 | 0 comments | Read All »

First day

After diving the west side of Bonaire for about 6 months I was ready for some different diving. I slowly made my plans to leave the island until I got the opportunity to get a job at Bonaire East Coast Diving. So my first...

Posted by Bas Geurts van Kessel on 2009-11-12 | 0 comments | Read All »

There's a new kid in town

More and more divers discover that East Coast Diving is not as tough as they always believed it would be. East coast boat diving that is, do not underestimate the difficulties of diving the East side of Bonaire from the shore. Nowadays...

Posted by Wietze Koopman on 2009-11-10 | 0 comments | Read All »

One of those dives

I had it happen before... a dive where nothing much is happening for a long, long time. Diving Funchi yesterday it happened again, the Eagle Rays took a long time before showing themselves. Visibility was not what we hoped it would be,...

Posted by Wietze Koopman on 2009-11-06 | 0 comments | Read All »

Smiles all around

Diving the East Coast is spoiling yourself. After checking out eagle ray no. 14 (in dive 1) we got surprised by a good size barracuda being cleaned by a couple of gobies. Slowly gliding along and bumping into the biggest rainbow parrot I have...

Posted by Rob Schieke on 2009-11-03 | 0 comments | Read All »

Calm seas and great visibility

I'm sorry I didn't write many blogs this week, but it was just a lil very busy now Ger has his holidays in brrrrr The Netherlands. Last week we went out almost every day and every day was like diving in an aquarium. The visibility was...

Posted by Webmaster on 2009-11-02 | 0 comments | Read All »

First days on the boat

They say first impressions are the most important. If that is the case, then my first impression of BECD couldn't be better. The boat is beautiful, the crew fun and very professional and the diving is absolutely amazing. I started working for...

Posted by Rob Schieke on 2009-10-25 | 0 comments | Read All »

Wannadive party

Last Sunday, we went out with the whole crew of Wannadive, because they exististed 9 years (congratulations!). It was everything I did not expect, a well organised bunch of divemasters and instructors. Luckily the party later that night...

Posted by Webmaster on 2009-10-13 | 0 comments | Read All »

Who! Me?

On this typical October day the sea was very calm. After briefing our divers I did not expect any problems, but still, like always in the beginning of the dive, I watched the group descending. Experienced divers, I could see that right...

Posted by Wietze Koopman on 2009-10-13 | 0 comments | Read All »

Safety rules

Diving the East coast is different from diving the leeward side. Divers who did it before know that conditions can be a bit harder on the windward side. Nothing too much, but to keep it safe we developed a set of rules. In our pre-dive...

Posted by Wietze Koopman on 2009-09-30 | 0 comments | Read All »

How to catch some (manta)rays at the East Coast

Dag duikertjes aller lande, De dag begon als een normale dag, boot laden, (waar bleef Wietze??),de boot checken (nog geen Wietze), de auto aan de trailer koppelen (Wietze??) en bellen met mijn maatje Wietze. Na met hem herenigd te zijn,...

Posted by Ger Boermeester on 2009-09-24 | 0 comments | Read All »

Just a nice day at the office

Hedenochtend omstreeks 8.15 uur zijn wij (het team en klanten van BECD) vertrokken van de visserspier te Sorobon. Het doel was een prettige duik te gaan maken op Funchi's Reef. De eerste duik zou gedaan worden door Wietze. Als gast was Chris...

Posted by Ger Boermeester on 2009-09-22 | 0 comments | Read All »

Een ouderwets goeie dag

Vorige week besloten we de week met een tocht naar Spelonk. De zee was relatief kalm, dat heb je zo in september, en we konden er met een 'smooth ride' naar toe. Spelonk is weer eens wat anders. Je duikt er gemiddeld wat dieper en op het...

Posted by Wietze Koopman on 2009-09-21 | 0 comments | Read All »