This year I traveled to Curacao and went diving with Ocean Encounters, Sep 8 - 12, 2013.
My dive buddy and I dove 11 different dive sites. We stayed at the Sea Aquarium Royal Resort across from the main dive shop and boat dock.
Ocean Encounters has several dive shops located at various resorts around the island: at Lions Dive and Beach Resort, Sunscape Resort, Hilton, and the Santa Barbara Beach & Golf Resort
The dive boat would stop at the resorts on the way to the dive shop to pick up divers, or shuttle them to the boat dock.
Divers must sign-up the day before. The people at Ocean Encounters always met us with a smile and took us to excellent dive locations.
All of the dive masters were from Holland and spoke excellent English: Maik, Yolanda, Maurice, Ingrid, Pol, and Willem.
I found the other divers to be very experienced and fun to be around.
People |
 Billy at Small Wall (photo by Mariana) |
 Nick at Shipwreck Reef |
 Dive Master, Pol, at Smokeys Reef |
 Dive Buddy, Bill, at Booby Trap |
Places |
 Ocean Encounters Dive Shop |
 Ocean Encounters Dive Boat |
 Augustos Restaurant at Sea Aquarium |
 Willemstad at night |
Dive Sites |
 Small Wall - Sea lion fish |
 Small Wall - coral |
 Small Wall - sponges |
 Small Wall - Sea fan |
 Small Wall - Social feather duster |
 Beacon Point - Brain coral |
 Beacon Point - Golden Crinoid |
 Beacon Point - Corky sea fingers |
 Beacon Point - Elkhorn coral |
 Shipwreck Reef - Stag horn coral |
 Shipwreck Reef - Fire coral |
 Shipwreck Reef - Fire coral |
 Sandys Plateau - Barrel sponges |
 Sandys Plateau - Harlequin bass in Sheet coral |
 Booby Trap - Blue tip sea anemone |
 Sea Aquarium - Spiral worm on fire coral |
 Sea Aquarium - Spiral sea worm |
 Mushroom Forest - Cleaner shrimp |
 Port Marie - Lion fish |
 Port Marie - Tube sponge |