Rock Pile owes its name to a group of large boulders lying halfway down the slope. Lobster, moray and glassy sweepers sit between and under those boulders; the rest of the dive is an ordinary slope.
Rock Pile is an advanced boat dive on Klein Bonaire: a reef top at five to seven metres, boulders at ten to fifteen metres and a slope to thirty-five.
A top at five to seven metres runs to a slope with boulders at ten to fifteen metres. In the crevices, lobster, moray and cleaner shrimp. Deeper, the slope drops to thirty-five metres with sponges and sea fans.
In moderate current, in the morning. Bring a torch to look into the crevices, even by day.
Outside the boulders the dive is ordinary. The crevices are tight: do not go in and take nothing from the cavities. Boat only, no facilities.
Decisions on diveability, technique and health belong with STINAPA, a dive school or a doctor. This page only describes the conditions.
The boulders were probably broken off the coast in a heavy storm; fields of such debris lie at more points along Klein Bonaire. They act as shelter and are for that local hotspots for lobster and moray.
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