Artikelen door Rob Botbijl

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 […]

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. […]