Artikelen door Rob Botbijl

Safety during your dive

Safety during your dive is always the most important part. This is why you do the buddy check and dive within the No decompression limits and within the depth limits of your certification. You might even bring a Surface Marker Buoy with you to raise before you ascend at the end of your dive, like […]

Stijn diving at Curaçao again

Last year Stijn did a Discover Scuba Dive with us. He was so enthusiastic after this dive and he decided to do the jr. Open Water Diver course in the Netherlands. There he did the confined (pool)sessions and theory, but for his open water dives he came back to us earlier this year. We call […]

Diving with a Eagle Ray

One of the best moment you can have during your dives is encountering a spotted eagle ray close. Its amazing how they move true the water. They almost don’t move but you have to speed up. Al the spotted eagle rays are different on the back. Some have dots, other have circles and stripes and […]

Frogfish during diving

During our dives we encounter always something special. if it is during a discover scuba dive, open water course, specialties or just guided dives, it doesn’t matter. When Petricia is diving at one of our beautiful dive spot she always find her frogfish back. You can find them in different colors. They are masters in […]

Clean up and diving

Last weekend the 4th of july we had as CHATA Dive taskforce  a clean up at playa “piskado”. There where a lot of volunteers to help out above water and underwater. Also a lot of things where sponsored by companies. Divers where diving and collecting a lot of debris in the water from tin cans […]

Hans diving at Curaçao

The last couple of days visibility has been a bit less then normal. This does not bother us, we go diving anyway. These images have been shot during guided dives with Hans. We did a total of 6 dives with him this time and encountered a lot of nice sea life. Look at the turtles, […]

Emma diving with dad

Nothing is more fun then diving with children. This girls father had been diving with us before last year and now returned for some more. When he learned his daughter was old enough to try diving as well he asked her if she wanted to try. And she did!! As a matter of fact, even […]

Leroy’s guided dives

Recently we had a family of 3, mom, Dad and 4 year old daughter. Mom and Dad wanted to do guided dives, but also wanted it to be a family vacation. We solved the problem easily, first Mom did a dive with us whilst Dad played at the beach with the girl. Afterwards we had […]

Willem diving

It’s not just exercises during the Open Water Diver course. Of course they are a very important part of each course dive, but when all requirements have been reached we also do a fun tour on the reef. Diving is fun and we want to show you why! So after the stress of having your […]

Spotted eagle ray during a dive

Though we always enjoy every fish we see underwater and love to look at the corals and sponges and all their different colors, sometimes you see something that really makes your dive. During this dive it was a spotted eagle ray who allowed us to get a glimpse of him. It’s just majestic, how they […]

Brett and Catherine diving together

Again we had a couple doing their first dive with us. Leroy did a Discover Scuba Dive with them and they had a great time! During Discover Scuba we start in our classroom with a little bit of theory. A lot of this you can forget again, but it is for example very important to […]

small dive impression

After doing a first Discover Scuba Dive with us at Playa Lagun this diver decided to do another one on a different location. Still a bit nervous, still breathing heavily in the beginning of the dive, but little by little she relaxed again and started to enjoy herself again. We greeted Neptune and enjoyed seeing […]