Please, a need suggestion for dive in Curaçao

[manu9779]

Hello everybody, I´m new in the forum, so first of all introduce me.

I´m from South of Spain (Málaga) and I´m professional diver and PADI Divemaster. I´ll go to Curaçao on December with my family, and we would like to know:

1-. which are the best place for dive in Curaçao?

2.- Which places do you suggest me for dive close to my residence?

I´ll be in Curaçao for 7 days, and I´ll stay in Blue bay, without car, although i don´t care to move some kilometers to the site.

thank you and regards from Spain

 

[gustele]

Blue bay has a nice house reef, so you best start there with diving. Go to the right for a steep wall although this is at quite a distance. But if you are able to make a 1 hour dive you should be able to have a good look at it. Also to the left is a good option.

Other good places nearby:
Slangenbaai (Snake bay); right side as well as left side is good diving
Vaersenbay has a nice pontoon between 20 and 35 meters; left side; farther to the left there are car wrecks from the fifthies, but that is a deep dive. If you want to do that go to the left at the surface till the large buoy and descend there. From the car wrecks it is a nice dive along the reef back to the entrance

Have fun. Check my websites in the signature for more information.

 

[diversteve]

We really liked Varsenbaai also. In 2007 there were a pair of seahorses just up from the main mooring ball, coming back in there were turtles feeding on seagrass in 6' of water and on a 2nd dive about 100 squid slowly swam past us - around 20' near the dock.

Slightly farther west than Varsenbaai - Habitat's house reef (Nos Kas) was a good dive. And Porto Mari nearby has a double reef structure. We dove both - went back to Habitat twice.

The best dive we did was Playa Kalki/Alice in Wonderland. Both directions are different. But it's all the way in Westpunt - the far west end of Curacao. All the sites I've mentioned have on site dive shops so you won't have to haul tanks/weights.

Once we saw a local bus out west - maybe around Sint Wilbrodrus (sp) - not sure how they are about bringing gear on it. Or how far west it goes.

 

[manu9779]

Thanks for the replies, could you tell me approximate price of each dive? I'll take only minor equipment (mask, snorkel, fins), so I would have to rent the heavy equipment.

 

[Nivek Llekots]

Check in with Suzy at "The Dive Bus" she can give you all the information you need.

 

[Odys]

+1 on the Dive Bus, give Suzi a call.

 

[catravelgirl]

We stayed at the Hilton in May and dove with Ocean Encounters, which has several locations in Curacao. Top notch dive operation. Didn't have a bad dive all week! Ocean was a little rough traveling south, though, so bring motion-sickness medicine if you are prone to sickness and plan to boat dive. We liked the Mushroom Forest for it's unique formations. Only really big creature we saw was a turtle that lived at The Hilton's reef. At Director's Bay saw 5 spotted eels on one dive. Seldom Reef has some great coral, too.

 

[catravelgirl]

If your family doesn't all dive, or you want something else to do, we had a great time riding the Fun Bugs. Also enjoyed the Ostrich Farm and Hato Caves. We only rented a car for one day and saw the Ostrichs, cave, and a quick tour around the island, The Fun Bugs people picked us up at the hotel.