Dennis Bakhuis

Dive site · sea · Bonaire National Marine Park

🇧🇶 White Hole (east coast)

Kralendijk, Bonaire, Bonaire

A sand bowl in the east-coast reef that holds a permanent school of tarpon — the reason people wait all week for the wind to drop.

Dives here
1
Deepest
19.9 m
Water
salt
First · last
2012
Also known as
Whitehole (east coast)

Revision 1 · changed 10 Oct 2026

History
  1. r1 10 Oct 2026 Imported from the personal log · Dennis Bakhuis

Site data © divelog-sites contributors (ODbL), descriptions and maps CC BY-SA 4.0 · 53edcaf

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Lac barrier reefWhite Hole: sand 15-20 m↓30 mCircular route · 506 mBack roll over the sand holeTarpon under the coral wall↓15 mTurtles on the southern reef↓12 mCurrent 0.5-1.5 kn, 2 kn at spring tideLac Bay lagoonN50 m
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A long, narrow hole of white sand at 15-20 m in the reef slope seaward of the Lac Bay barrier reef (reef top 4-6 m, 30 m at most on the outside), home to a resting school of tarpon that shelter in the coral wall on its west side, with turtles on the southern part (bonaire.com, bonaireisland.com). The sand hole is about 140 m long and 25 m wide, beside the OpenStreetMap dive-site marker; the 30 m contour, the drop point and the circular route are assumptions. Coastline and reef outline © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Positions are approximate.

Map © divelog-sites contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0 · 53edcaf

White Hole is on the east coast, near Cai, and like everything on that side it only happens when the trades let it. It is a circular bowl of white sand in the reef, and its resident population is a large school of tarpon — two-metre, silver-plated, prehistoric-looking fish that hang in the bowl in formation and let divers come close.

Dived 21 August 2012 to 19.9 m, the same day as Cai — a single east-coast window used for both.

Dived here with

Kim

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1 dive at White Hole (east coast)

  1. 21 Aug 2012 with Kim boat date21 Aug 2012 depth19.9 m time73 min water—