Entries by Rob Botbijl

Short impression of a dive

We like to give you a short impression of what you might encounter during your dives with us. It might interest you that you don’t have to go deep to see most of these lovely creatures. Our instructors always start the dives very shallow to make sure we don’t miss anything. How often did we […]

Discover it during your dive

  A great way to find out if you want to learn how to dive is by doing a Discover Scuba Dive. The great thing about doing a DSD on Curacao is that dive organisations like PADI and IDD allow us to do this directly in the ocean instead of a swimming pool. Curacao has […]

A two tank dive with 4

Even when you are a certified open water diver or advanced open water diver you might choose to dive with a divemaster or instructor to guide you. This way you don’t have to worry about navigation, which gives you more time to relax and enjoy the scenery. Besides this the guide that takes you on […]

Impressions of the dives of Vincent

During your Advanced Open water course the deep dive and navigation dive are mandatory. You will experience colors disappear the deeper you go during the deep dive and learn how to work with your compass and use natural navigation during the navigation dive. Using natural navigation is not so hard, basically it’s what you do […]

Frogfishes during a dive

In the past few weeks our followers probably have seen this yellow Frogfish pass by a couple of times.we regularly go dive on the dive site where we found him and of course we always check if he is still around when we do! A few weeks ago we also saw a second Frogfish keeping […]

Two seahorses during a dive

In this video we share one of the cutest sea creatures wth you. These seahorses we encountered during a guided dive on 1 of the most beautiful dive sites of Curacao. The first seahorse we spotted at a depth of 16 meters. The second one we found almost at the end of the dive, at […]

Nice guided dive

Guided dives are so much easy for the diver. Everything is arranged for you. Your equipment is there and your guide knows the spot where you enter the water. You don’t have to find out wich dive spot you have to go and all the safety materials are close by like the first aid kit and […]

lots to encounter during dives

There are lots of things to encounter during your dives at Curaçao. It doesn’t matter if you do a guided dive or your open water dives. You always will encounter a lot of creatures and corals at the reef of Curaçao. The best thing of diving is that you can come really close to nature. […]

“Dpv” and turtles

During your advanced open water course you have 3 optional dives. One of your options is the DPV ( diver propulsion vehicle) dive. You will learn the basic skills neccessary to operate the DPV, and then you go. It’s so much fun to do!! During this specific dive we encountered a lot of turtles. Luckily […]

An adventure dive

One of the great adventures of diving at Curaçao is the wreck dive to the “Superior  Producer”. You can do it as an guided dive from shore or as one of the dives during your advanced open water course. Entering the water from shore and go under in to the deep is an adventure on […]

Diving at Curaçao

When you visit Curaçao, you should at least try diving. If you have never done it before  try a discover scuba dive maybe you like it so much that you want to start  your open water course straight away. If you are already certified you can do guided dives or a follow up course like advanced open water […]

Open water diving with Gesa

It’s so much fun to do your open water course at Curaçao.  Even when you are doing learning how to do your  skills you are already in between the sea creatures. This because Curaçao has lots of bays with swimming pool conditions, so we are allowed to do the pool sessions there. The creatures are curious […]