Clear water a person can get in trouble with depth easily. I watched a young woman get narked and drifting down into oblivion and started to go get her but the dive master noticed her and went down and steered her back up to the group (West End, Roatan). Got on the boat and she never knew she was narked or in trouble. She would have been a statistic, had she been alone. It was a dive planned to 100 feet (tounge of the devil they called the dive - swim through with outlet starting at 100 and going down from there) and she had never been that deep and did not know about her reaction.

I have something over 3000 dives (did not log them in the early days) and have over 1000 logged in just the last 6 years. Since semi-retiring, we do a lot of diving. Learned originally in 1967-8 and got really active around 1982. The bulk of it now days in Bonaire, but we do other dive trips also. Have done hundreds of dives in Roatan/Utila and off the Yucatan including Cozumel. Did several hundred dives out of Puerto Morelos, Mx over a 7 year period. Got cavern certified there. Been to a number of other places shorter term.

We have a place we over winter in Bonaire. We are snow birds, but we just keep flying when we go south instead of stopping in the southern US. It is a little higher air flight cost, but once we get there probably not much more or maybe no more expensive than staying in the US. Plus world class diving literally 100 feet from our room. I normally dive 10-12 dives a week while there and my wife about half that.

Bonaire is very easy diving. They have boat diving, but unlike most dive destinations in Bonaire you just rent a 4 door pickup truck (we own our own truck we keep down there to avoid rentals) and drive to the dive sites and wade in. No guides to follow that way. You just do your own thing. Or if a person is uncomfortable with that, there are the boat dives with guided diving like most destinations.

John