Known as one of the best wreck dives in the Caribbean is the wreck called Superior Producer. This former cargo ship is now covered with corals and a home to lots of sea life. Big green moray eels are seen in the cargo hull and often tarpons stand guard around the wreck. But also look a bit more closely and try to find the smaller creatures like the bearded fire worms that crawl over the sides of the ship. Dive this wreck as one of your Advanced Open water optional dives (only if the mandatory deep dive has been done first and went well) or as a guided dive when you are already an Advanced Open water certified diver. For the more experienced divers there’s also the Wreck dive specialty.
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 see seahorses or turtles at only 2 meters deep during Discover Scuba Dives, Guided Dives or Open Water course dives? In this movie you see a yellow frogfish, so ugly it’s beautiful again, a big green moray eel, turtles and more.
What we encounter is always a surprise, we can not guarantee turtles or any kind of other sea creatures. What we can promise is a beautiful, relaxed dive in small groups and a lot of fun!
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 very safe bays that resemble swimming pool conditions. It is so much nicer to be looking at fish instead of tiles on your first diving experience.
The diver in the movie joined us for a Discover Scuba Dive and loved it! He immediately decided to go on and do the Open water course. Did you know you get a discount on the course after doing a DSD with us?
Come and experience diving yourselves, let one of our very enthousiastic and patient instructors introduce you to a new world!
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 your guided dive knows the most beautiful dive sites and often also knows where the creatures live. Seahorses and frog fishes for instance really have a habitat where they stay for a long time as long as they are not bothered to much. The same goes for turtles. Isn’t it time for you to come dive with us at Relaxed Guided Dives?
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 at the surface as well. “At the yellow house, turn right, then left at the first traffic lights. Instead of the yellow house it might be a purple stove pipe sponge, the traffic lights a huge barrel sponge etc.
Of course it’s not only educational during those dives, there’s always time to enjoy the scenery, as you can see in this movie…
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 him company. This one was of a lightbrown color. On later dives we only saw the yellow one. Until last week! We were on our way back to the beach but decided to make a last stop to wave the frogfish goodbye when we spotted an reddish spot directly behind him. Surprise! Our second frogfish had just changed it’s color to match the coral better! Come join us for a guided dive and together we will explore the beautiful underwater world.
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 a depth 6 meters. Funny detail is that Petricia spotted the orange one on exactly the same coral about two months ago already. Clearly living in the area! The Longsnouth Seahorse can be found in different colors, like orange, yellow or brown. When will you join us for a guided dive or DSD and help us spot more?
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 the oxygen kit. Even the guide has a dive flag with him/her. Underwater you don’t have to navigate so you have maximum time to enjoy your dive and encounter a lot of things. This makes your diving all by all relaxed and safe and a lot of fun.
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. And sometimes the creatures come to you. The reef of Curaçao has a lot to offer, and a lot of dive sites can be done from shore. So the rest of the family who don’t dive can stay at the beautiful beaches waiting till you come back from your great diving experience.
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 you can also stop the DPV, so you can watch them :-)) using a DPV might come in handy on dives where the reef is not so close to shore. You can use it to bring your buddy and yourself to the reef faster so you have more time to enjoy yourselves looking at the corals.
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 it’s own. Diving in to the deep and see the wreck pops up in all it’s glory. Covered with corals and a lot of sealife around it. Laying at the bottom now for 38 years, it became one with the ocean around it. Definitely a must see!!
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 diver. Also you can do a lot of specialties. You see there is a lot of diving to do at Curaçao. During these dives you will see a lot of our beautiful reef and al it’s creatures. You can do it with the whole family. Kids can start when they are 8 years old with bubble maker and sealteam. when they are 10 years old they can start with junior open water.
Relaxed Guided Dives
Martha Koosje 10 Curacao
Phone: +5999-8687710
Phone: +5999-5289277
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Web: www.relaxed-guided-dives.com
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