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 you have learned during your Open Water course

In some countries, like here on Curaçao, a SMB is not enough. You have to be visible during your whole dive or snorkel tour. A very nice item to buy and take on your next dive vacation, to ensure more safety during your dive is the Pocket Buoy, as shown in the movie. Light weighted, easy to carry with you and easy to use.

Now also available at Relaxed Guided Dives, so come and get yours before stock runs out!

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 we even spotted them in braun in stead of white spots. They are amazing creatures. Some times during the diving we also spot them eating. They shovel their nose in to the sand to find their food. Next time we maybe will encounter them, when we are diving together.

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 to fishing lines and tires. All was recorded on film and photo by Turtle&Ray Productions HD. You can also hire them to make a video of you during your dives, if you do an open water course, discover scuba dive or guided dive. The clean up was a big succes we had more then 130 volunteers to help the CHATA Dive taskforce to accomplish this goal.. Up to the next one.. Be project Aware….

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 though the visibility was not as clear as it normally is, she loved it and did 2 Discover Scuba Dives! See how she enjoyed the feeling of floating through the water and swim with turtles. What a joy that we were allowed to join her for this experience! Another scuba diving addict was born!!!

Do you want your children to experience this as well? Book a Bubblemaker course (8 year olds), Discover Scuba Dive or Junior Open Water course for them!

 

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 tank being closed, or breathing from a free-flowing regulator, it’s time to relax and enjoy. Look at Willem, our student in this movie, see how he enjoys greeting Neptune, seeing the shirttail eel and pufferfish. Don’t forget the turtle and French Angelfishes who also start in this movie. We hope Willem will have lots of beautiful dives in the future!

 

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 know how to equalize your ears and that you have to keep breathing the whole time.

At the dive site we build up the dive gear for you, so don’t worry about that. Then we go into the water where we do a couple of simple exercises before we really dive underwater to explore the beauty that is hidden there.

Everything very relaxed, no rush, no one pushing you to do things you don’t want to do. We want all our guests to have a good experience!