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 grab our gear and go in to the water. There we do some skills so we can handle problems under water in a controlled manner. After that we go fun diving and you will see why you loved doing it. Encounter all the fish, creatures and corals the reef of Curaçao can offer us.
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. You see even if your not diving you can encounter a lot of amazing animals, just in the shallow waters of our beautiful island, Curaçao. The Manta Ray has been spotted several times the last few weeks. Maybe you will be lucky next time you go diving….. on one of your guided shore dives with Relaxed Guided Dives!
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 started to spear, some where to quick and got lucky but a few we caught. After we where done we return to the beach. On our way I spotted something strange between the coral. After closer investigation I had found a frogfish. It was bright Yellow and almost didn’t move. We where happy we had a great dive even if the catch was small.
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 few. The frog fish is a master in camouflage. It’s angling for it’s prey, in front of it’s mouth and than grabs it with amazing speed and skills. All by all an amazing creature to encounter during your dives, especially when you spot it eating.
One of the many dive sites of Curaçao is the “Superior Producer”. It is one of the best wreck dives of the Caribbean which you can best do as a guided dive. It is also an adventure dive or a dive you can do during your advanced open water. You enter the water with waves and over rocks and put your gear on as quick as possible. then you go under. After a little dive along the reef you will see the wreck popping up out of the deep blue. It’s covered with corals and a lot of fishes have there their home. The wrecks stand straight up at the sandy bottom so it looks like a statue put there on purpose.
During our guided dive at playa Hundu we were joint by a hawksbill turtle.
Relaxed Guided Dives
Martha Koosje 10 Curacao
Phone: +5999-8687710
Phone: +5999-5289277
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