Harm clusters on boat props at cuts, current on walls, hurricane-season logistics, and sun. This is not medical advice.
A cancelled wall day is a safety decision.
Hazards
- Boat traffic at Hol Chan and sandbars — Tenders and props.
- Wall current and depth — Palancar, Bloody Bay.
- Hurricane window — Boats leave; this is not a forecast.
- Sun and dehydration — Pale shallows cook people.
- Lionfish spines — Look, do not handle untrained.
- Habituated-animal scrums — Kicks and bites.
Rules
- Park brief and tag — Always.
- SMB on drifts — The pickup rule.
- No grab, no feed — Rays, sharks, turtles.
- Buddy on shore entries — Bonaire is still a sea.
- Respect closures after storms — The map changes.
Red flags
- A boat handing out bread — Refuse.
- A first-day deep Palancar drop — Turn the plan.
- Someone standing on the cut — The reserve's original sin.
- Chest pain after a wall stack — Emergency path.
First response
- Boat oxygen and island clinic pathways — Not a DCI protocol page.
- Spines and coral cuts — Clinic over folklore.
- Not medical advice — Envenomation and DCI are clinical.
Caribbean safety is a tag, a SMB and a morning. The deep wall can wait.