Einträge von Rob Botbijl

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 […]

Lucas dive impressions

During your open water course you learn a lot about diving, it doesn’t mater if it’s junior open water or advanced open water. You practice skills under water and dive along the reef. After a day in the water you have experienced a lot of things but you also have encountered new things.  Watching around every […]

Diving with a DPV

During your advanced open water course you have to do 5 dives. Two dives are mandatory, these are: the Deep dive and the Navigation dive. The other three you can decide by yourself. One of these dives can be the diver propulsion vehicle also known as “DPV”. Here you learn how to handle the DPV and […]

Turtle moments during a dive

During our dives we experience a lot of special moments. This time is was an big one. At the end of an advanced open water dive, we encountered a big group of green turtles, eating pieces of fish thrown back by the local fisherman, after cleaning their catch of the day. The scenery was amazing. Sitting […]

Lisa and the frogfish

Diving at Curaçao is a lot of fun, you always find something new what makes your dive special. This time it was during a advanced junior open water course. After descending for the deep dive we spotted a yellow frogfish on orange elephant ear coral. It was a great encounter because now it was sitting […]

Diving with Indy

After seeing her father and her friend Lisa diving Indy told her parents she would like to try this also. First her parents thought she was to young, Indy is almost 9 years old. Luckily for Indy we could explain the parents about PADI’s Bubblemaker program, so Indy could go diving as well. Look at the […]

diving with Stijn

Not only adults are allowed to dive, youngsters can do the Junior Open Water course, just like Stijn. Stijn did part of his course already in his home country, so he already finished his pool sessions and theoretical part. He chose to do the open water part of the course on Curacao, as referral dives. […]

Seahorse again spotted

Last year we spotted a lot of seahorses at one of the dive sites of Curacao. Sadly they dissapeared after a storm in November. Of course we always keep an eye out for them. These last couple of weeks we are very happy to say we are seeing them again. Some are still very small […]

Diving with Khaled

During an open water course it’s not only exercises. Of course these are the most important parts of the open water course, but there’s always time for a fun tour as well. This diver was very lucky during his open water course. Almost every dive we saw something special. First dive we saw a seahorse, […]

Meeting a lot of turtles

Some times we hit the jackpot during a guided shore dive. This dive was one like that again.  The moment we went under we were surrounded by a lot of green turtles. They were relaxing, eating left overs from fish. It was a beautiful sight to see them in different sizes. Some were curious what […]

Diving together

Diving together at Curaçao is so much fun. It doesn’t matter if you do a discover scuba dive or a guided dive, you always have something to share together. It’s the experience you share about what you encountered underwater. So you can tell other divers about different shore dive spots at Curaçao or around the world. There are […]

Diving Mika

Diving With Mika at a dive spot at Curaçao. Together discovering the beauty of a shallow under water world. After going under we encountered a lot of animals. Also we explored a little cave with a lot of creatures you normally spot during a night dive. We encountered a green muray eel and spiny lobsters […]