Please bring your certification card to the dive shop check-in.

IMPORTANT NOTE: If you are 70 years of age or older and would like DAN insurance, you will need to contact DAN directly to discuss your options for diving insurances.

If you need Dive Insurance and do not already have it, please choose one of our Dive Accident Coverage Plan options from DAN World, as indicated below. This will be charged to your room account upon arrival.

If you already have a Dive Insurance policy, please choose the last option as indicated below.

STATEMENT OF UNDERSTANDING AND WAIVER

As a diver with Buddy Dive I will:

1. Be in good mental and physical condition for diving at all times.
2. Avoid being under the influence of alcohol or drugs while diving. Buddy Dive staff may disqualify me from diving activities if I am under influence or have a hangover.
3. Engage only in diving activities consistent with my training, comfort and experience.
4. Listen carefully to the dive briefings and respect the advice of the dive guides supervising my activities.
5. Adhere to the buddy system throughout every dive.
6. Follow local diving rules of the national marine park with which I am familiar since I have watched the marine park orientation video and I have purchased my mandatory nature fee tag.
7. Never exceed the depth or time limitations planned by the dive guides and never exceed the maximum depth according to my level of certification, which ever one is the most conservative.
8. Ascend no faster than 30 feet per minute and do a three (3) minute safety stop at fifteen (15) feet on all dives.
9. Make cancellations at least 4 hours before the scheduled date and dive time. All no shows and late cancellations will not be refunded or credited.
10. Understand that the failure to respect Bonaire’s fragile reef systems by deliberately touching the reef could result in the premature termination of my planned dives.
11. When using dive equipment that is not provided by Buddy Dive, be fully responsible for it being in proper working condition. In the unlikely event I require emergency repairs on said equipment I can’t hold Buddy Dive liable nor responsible.
    
12. When renting equipment, have examined the rental equipment, and have satisfied myself that it is in good order and working condition before i go diving. I hereby accept the equipment in the condition as is. Buddy watersports b.v. accepts no responsibility for any defect in the equipment and does not warrant that it is suitable for any particular purpose. I agree that the use of said equipment is at my own risk. I shall return the same in good order and working condition and shall be financially liable for any deviations therefrom.

I, [ First Name ] [ Last Name ], have read, fully understand and will conform with all of the above statements. I hereby exempt and release buddy dive and all the agents associated from all liability for personal injury, wrongful death or property loss or damage.

LIABILITY RELEASE AND ASSUMPTION OF RISK

I, [ First Name ] [ Last Name ], understand and agree that neither my buddy dive guide(s), divemaster or instructors, or other staff; Buddy Dive Watersport B.V.; Padi Americas, inc., or other certifying agencies, or any of their respective employees, officers or agents; or travel partners (hereinafter referred to as released parties), may be held liable or responsible in any way for any injury, death or other damages to me or my family, estate, heirs or assigns that may occur as a result of my participation in this scuba diving or as a result of the negligence of any party, including the released parties, whether passive or active. I further agree that any and all suits or claims against the released parties will be disputed only in the Dutch Caribbean, Bonaire, accepting the rules, laws and regulations of the Dutch Caribbean Bonaire. No complaints, suits or demands will be filed in any other country regardless of the client’s country of origin or address. I accept the rules and the courts of the local government of the Dutch Caribbean Bonaire for all disputes of any kind.

I, [ First Name ] [ Last Name ], further understand that diving with compressed, and any mixture of oxygen and nitrogen (nitrox), air involves certain inherent risks. Decompression sickness, embolism, or hyperbaric injuries can occur that require treatment in a recompression chamber. I still choose to participate in scuba diving activities.

In consideration of being allowed to participate in scuba diving activities, I hereby personally assume all risk in connection with scuba diving, for any harm, injury or damage that may befall me while I am participating in scuba diving, including all risks connected therewith, whether foreseen or unforeseen.

Signify your agreement with the following statements with your initials

I, [ First Name ] [ Last Name ], by this instrument do exempt and release any and all related entities as defined above, from all liability or responsibility whatsoever. I have fully informed myself of the contents of this liability release and express assumption of risk by reading it before I signed it on behalf of myself and my heirs.