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Ocean Encounters Diving: "Curacao", Nov, 2018, by Fred M Drennan, WA, US ( Reviewer 6 reports with 2 Helpful votes). Report 10686.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving	N/A
Snorkeling	N/A
Overall Rating
Value for $$
Beginners
Advanced
Comments	Over Thanksgiving. Dive operations are quite good, organized check-in/out/reservations, good rental equipment, lockers with hanging space, and membrane nitrox 32-33%. Boats are large [weren't full] with good shaded areas. Dive masters mostly lead the dives, not a lot of critter pointing [but then again not a lot of odd critters, just the usual Caribbean suspects]. Huge lionfish on every dive, and no restaurant with lionfish on the menu! Divers 50% dutch, 50% americans. Stayed at Avila Beach [very nice] and got a pick up every morning after breakfast. Best diving was to east end [3 dives there over our 4 days] with very healthy coral and sponges and lots of fish. West end [towards Willemsted] poorer viz but overall still good. Klein Curacao is a long trip [was a bit bumpy] for average diving and a long surface interval [lunch, snorkeling, walk on the island etc] but lots of turtles. Had wake riding dolphins on one of the east trips. Did not dive mushroom forest or Superior Producer.
Websites	Ocean Encounters Diving
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	501-1000 dives
Where else diving	Indonesia, Fiji, PNG, Hawaii, some Caribbean
Closest Airport	CUR	Getting There	American from Miami
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, cloudy, dry	Seas	calm, choppy, no currents
Water Temp	80-82°F / 27-28°C	Wetsuit Thickness	1
Water Visibility	50-75 Ft/ 15-23 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	50-60 minute dives
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	1 or 2	Mantas	None
Dolphins	Schools	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	> 2	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish
Large Pelagics
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities	N/A
UW Photo Comments	One dedicated large photo bucket on boat got very crowded on Klein Curacao trip. Boat crew took good care of cameras.

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Ocean Encounters Diving: "Curacao", Nov, 2018,

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Dive Review of Ocean Encounters Diving in
Curaçao