Entries by Rob Botbijl

Diving is fun

Doing your open water diver course or advanced open water course can be a lot of fun. You learn a lot of skills to handle problems under water so your dives will be safe and comfortable. Also you see a lot of new things, the under water world is an complete different one then the […]

Guided dives at curaçao

Last weeks during our guided dives at a beautiful dive site of Curaçao, we encountered a lot of green turtles. They are amazing creatures of the sea. If you spot them, don’t approach them from behind. They will swim very fast away because they think they are going to be attacked. If you want to […]

creatures of the reef

During guided dives or open water courses or discover scuba dives we encounter a lot of sea creatures. sometimes we are very lucky. Then we encounter spacial ones at one day during two different dives. How about the Spanish lobster? Or underwater cockroach as many people call him :-)) The frogfish, who created us with […]

Lucas diving with dad

It is so much fun to get your junior open water diver diver certification at Curaçao. You see a lot under water and when you have your certification you can dive with your parents, if they have their open water diver  certification also. You see some special things together and have a lot to talk about […]

Sidney diving with turtles

Sometimes during diving you must be very lucky to see what’s on your bucket list. Some search for frogfishes, other for turtles. The last one is less difficult then frogfishes. You have to be lucky to be on the right dive spot at the right time. Last days we had those lucky moments during our […]

Leo diving for dinner

During your vacation you can do a lot of things, one of them is diving. Curacao has a lot of shore dive sites to try. You can also do a lot of courses or specialty diving.  One of the possibilities is Invasive lionfish tracker. Here you learn a lot about the lionfish and why we […]

Carlos diving with turtles

It’s not only Discover Scuba Dives and Open Water dives we offer, also certified divers choose to dive with us. Simply because they don’t have a buddy, don’t want to worry about navigation or because they know we know where to find the creatures. Last week during guided dives we spot a lot of green […]

Lucas Diving

Again a movie starring a Junior Open Water diver. Lucas wanted to visit Curaçao for a long long time already, and diving was one of the activities he definitely wanted to experience. He wanted to do this so badly he even started studying the Open water book months ago already. During the briefing of the […]

Marijn diving at Curaçao

Marijn started his Junior Open Water dive during his vacation. He had lots of fun diving with Leroy, learning how to correctly perform all exercises and how to always be safe and responsible when diving. Of course these exercises are a very important part of your Open Water course, but besides this it’s also very […]

Diving with Fer

What started with just a Discover Scuba Dive ended with a very enthusiastic certified Open Water diver! During his Discover Scuba Dive Fer got an impression of scuba diving. This is a nice and relaxed way to see whether Scuba Diving is something you want to learn and would enjoy doing. Lucky for us, Fer […]

Robin diving with parents

When you are at Curaçao, you can do a lot of things with your family. One of the things is diving, it’s fun for young and old. You will encounter a lot of creatures during your guided dives. This time (the second dive for this family) we spotted a lot of turtles, So much fun […]

Clinging crab during a dive

During our guided dives and courses we encounter a lot of amazing animals under water. Some creatures you spot during a day time dive and others during a night dive. The reef looks completely different during the night. Corals open and a lot of night creatures come out of their hiding places. This is one […]