Einträge von Rob Botbijl

Diving with…

Diving with new and returning customers is always fun. During the fun tour part of this Scuba Review dive we encountered a seahorse and a one armed box crab. Missing his other arm it was making it difficult for him to hide under the sand, but making it easier for us to look at him. After […]

Turtle overdose

At some shore dive spots you can encounter a lot of turtles at once. There are two kinds of turtles you can spot at curaçao, the green turtle and the hawksbill turtle. In this movie of our dive you see them both. The green turtle is more rounded from his shield and head. The hawksbill […]

Diving is fun

Diving is a lot of fun. When you just did your open water course and go diving at exotic places, you wil encounter a lot of animals underwater. It doesn’t matter if you encounter a parrotfish or a turtle, it’s always fun. You enhance your skills with other experienced divers and after the dive, at […]

Double frogfish

Two weeks ago Rob spotted this yellow frogfish during one of his dives. Today Petricia was doing a dive on the same dive location with her open water student. Since Rob described the spot where the frogfish was so clearly she could easily find the spot and… the frogfish was still there! Better even, when […]

Underwater painting

Underwater painting at the reef of Curaçao performed by Tanya Haynes. International artist Tanya Haynes has brought her unique style of fun fine art to life on Curaçao. Tanya’s artistry is recognized by top international designers and art collectors; aquariums; and ecological organizations. As a SCUBA diver, Tanya breaks the confines of the aquarium and […]

Diving and painting

  At the end of every month we have a dive with “Captain Rob’s crew“. These are children who are certified junior open water divers or Seal Team members.  Every time we dive  at another  shore dive spot at Curaçao. This dive was very special, we went underwater to paint. We got our instruction from Tanya […]

A two-tank dive

During a two-tank guided shore dive at the reef of Curaçao, you can see how beautiful it is underwater. You do the dives at different spot (which there are a lot of at Curaçao), so you see the changes in landscape. One spot can have a lot of hard corals, the other one can have a […]

Diving together at Curaçao.

After a while a couple went diving again on a guided shore dive at the reef  of Curaçao. when entering the warm waters and descending in to the deep, they saw why they liked diving so much. An amazing world showed up with fish and corals in all kind of colors . They realized that they  had had to […]

A refreshing dive

After a year of not diving it’s recommended that you do a refresh course. We explain you everything what was important during your dives and how to handle the equipment. Also we walk through the hand signals with can be handy underwater so we understand each other. After going over this  at the dive center we […]

Encountering a manta ray

When relaxing on a beautiful beach at Curaçao, Henk, one of our returning dive friends, spotted shadow in the water. He acted right away by grabbing his snorkel gear and GoPro. He jumped into the water and saw the shadow was a beautiful manta ray just passing by. It was a short encounter but great. […]

Lionfish hunt

Last time I went diving with Henk. We went for an invasive lionfish hunt so he could check out his new pole spear. After a slow descent we started to look for some lionfish. During daytime they hide under the coral so they are difficult to spot and catch. When we spotted a few we […]

Yellow frogfish during a dive…

During a beautiful shore dive at Curaçao, I spotted something strange in a piece of elephant ear coral. By taking a closer look, I a saw a little bit of movement. Yes !! I hit the jackpot again.. a yellow frogfish. You don’t spot them that often during your dives, but the last year I already spotted already a […]