East diving next week (January 5-10)

[keesmon]

Good morning.
We are arriving tomorrow (January 4th 2025), and were hoping to dive the east end by boat again, but it seems like Dive Charter Curacao is not operating right now.
Is there another boat that goes in that direction? We are three divers, available most days from the 5th to the 10th.
We were also hoping to return to dive the Superior Producer, but it appears that there is a cruise ship in port every single day next week.
I was using this website. Is that the correct one?

https://hms.curports.com/webx/dashb.ashx?db=curps.public&MENU_ID=WEBX-TB-PUBLIC-CRUISE

Thanks in advance. Looking forward to a fun week of blowing bubbles. It will be my 5th trip there.

 

[GTA_Diving_Wonder]

This site shows the 6th available... if it is accurate.

Willemstad, Curacao cruise port schedule | CruiseDig

Willemstad, Curacao cruise port calendar, cruise ships scheduled arrival and departure dates and estimated arrival and departure times for years 2025, 2026, and 2027

cruisedig.com

 

[keesmon]

This site shows the 6th available... if it is accurate.

Willemstad, Curacao cruise port schedule | CruiseDig

Willemstad, Curacao cruise port calendar, cruise ships scheduled arrival and departure dates and estimated arrival and departure times for years 2025, 2026, and 2027

cruisedig.com

Yes, and that's where I originally got my information as well, but the website I listed has a few ships in port. Hoping that someone local has the definitive resource. It's such a nice wreck.

 

[MarkH]

The official schedule shows a ship at the Mega Pier 1 on the 6th. https://hms.curports.com/webx/
The last time I looked for my trip late last year, it seemed that there was a ship or ships at the Mega Piers every day I assume permanently so it seemed to me that the Superior Producer is no longer diveable. I don't know if diving is allowed there from a boat when there is a ship in or if the restriction is just for diving there from shore.

 

[MarkH]

The official schedule shows a ship at the Mega Pier 1 on the 6th. https://hms.curports.com/webx/
The last time I looked for my trip late last year, it seemed that there was a ship or ships at the Mega Piers every day I assume permanently so it seemed to me that the Superior Producer is no longer diveable. I don't know if diving is allowed there from a boat when there is a ship in or if the restriction is just for diving there from shore.

Looking at it again, from what I can tell, it looks like the 17th might be available.

 

[GTA_Diving_Wonder]

The official schedule shows a ship at the Mega Pier 1 on the 6th. https://hms.curports.com/webx/
The last time I looked for my trip late last year, it seemed that there was a ship or ships at the Mega Piers every day I assume permanently so it seemed to me that the Superior Producer is no longer diveable. I don't know if diving is allowed there from a boat when there is a ship in or if the restriction is just for diving there from shore.

So the "Mega Pier" is the same thing as the cruise terminal? Is it the "JACKY VOGES PIER (MP1)" ?
I'm headed to Curacao the last two weeks of Jan, hoping to dive the Superior Producer also.

 

[GTA_Diving_Wonder]

Yes, and that's where I originally got my information as well, but the website I listed has a few ships in port. Hoping that someone local has the definitive resource. It's such a nice wreck.

Were you able to dive the SP ?

 

[MarkH]

So the "Mega Pier" is the same thing as the cruise terminal? Is it the "JACKY VOGES PIER (MP1)" ?
I'm headed to Curacao the last two weeks of Jan, hoping to dive the Superior Producer also.

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I think the Mega Piers (MP) are the ones that affect diving the wreck. They are the ones outside the harbour. There are other cruise docks inside Willemstad harbour listed in the schedule that don't affect diving the wreck.

 

[iointerrupt]

Yeh, you can ignore the 'MATHEY WHARF' entries, it's just the Mega Piers that count. Fair number of free days in January, considering. Now's Cruise Ship Season, in the summer and you can dive it nearly every day of the week.

 

[keesmon]

Were you able to dive the SP ?

Nope, it was open the day we arrived, and then again on the 17th. Next time!