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Curacao

Location: Curacao (Netherlands Antilles)

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Here you can see what other divers thought, the top dive sites, what fish to see, and what wrecks are here. You can also access an overview of the location, including interactive maps, climate data, and photos. We also have detailed listings of dive centres, resorts, travel agents and helpfull websites.

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Top Dive Sites (make sure you dive these!)
1	Mushroom Forest	With 6 votes(s).
2	Habitat dives	With 5 votes(s).
3	Director's Bay (Baya Beach)	With 4 votes(s).
4	Superior Producer	With 3 votes(s).
5	Mako's Mountain	With 2 votes(s).
6	Bart's Wall	With 2 votes(s).
7	Watamula	With 2 votes(s).
8	Curacao Sea Aquarium Big Animal Encounter	With 1 votes(s).
9	Playa Piskado	With 1 votes(s).
10	30 Pacific White Side Dolphins	With 1 votes(s).

Marine Sightings:

Based on data from your reviews for Curacao. we know the following about the marine life you can expect to see.
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Atlantic Blue Fin Tuna

Banded Butterflyfish

Bluntnose Stingray

Bottlenose Dolphin

Caribbean Reef Shark

Caribbean Spiny Lobster

French Angelfish

Great Barracuda

Great Hammerhead

Green Moray

Green Sea Turtle

Hawksbill Sea Turtle

Leatherback Sea Turtle

Loggerhead Sea Turtle

Longlure Frogfish

Longspine Porcupine Fish

Manta Ray

Nurse Shark

Queen Angel Fish

Reef Squid

Scorpion Fish

Southern Stingray

Spotted Eagle Ray

Tarpon

Trumpetfish

Reviews:

Here are the last 10 reviews for Curacao. Show all of them.

Visited	Comments
August 2012	Shore diving was not as good as Bonaire. Lots of crime on the island. You did not feel safe leaving your car parked while you went for a dive. Had to go to a beach where you pay for a armed security guard to watch your car. I have been to a lot of islands and this is the only island I will never return to. Date posted: 06-Mar-2016 15:51 by: Caribbean Jane
July 2012	over damaged Date posted: 12-Aug-2013 03:36 by: rcanalli
April 2010	Big Animal Encounter was awesome. Hand fed Lemon and Nurse Sharks, Loggerhead Turtles, and Rays. Date posted: 05-May-2010 12:25 by: Snyderj
November 2007	We will continue to return to Curacao each year. The weather is great, the people are better. Diving is excellent each year. Date posted: 16-Nov-2008 23:07 by: rexlyn
May 2000	My visit was 8 years ago and my memory may be shady on some of the details, but it was some great diving almost anywhere you went! Date posted: 02-Sep-2008 12:04 by: alaskowski
January 2008	We dove with Ocean Encounters-they did a great job. It was my first ocean diving so I can't really compare to anywhere else but I certainly don't have anything to complain about. Date posted: 29-Mar-2008 04:18 by: Janet
October 2006	Ok for a 1-off visit but as experienced divers we did not find the diving challeging or adventurous even though we hired a car and planned our own shore diving itinery. We used Easy Dive's boat out of Habitat for 1 day to do the mushroom forrest. Great dive centre and boat. Don't plan to go back. Bonnaire was better for diving IMHO. Date posted: 12-Jan-2007 19:26 by: Steve Parry
September 2005	Fantastic diving, great people & place. Date posted: 15-Oct-2006 15:42 by: Caz
January 2006	Again, I dived with the Dive Bus....absoultely superb. I'm not sure about the previous review about Curacao being unfriendly....in fact I would say the opposite. Everyone is happy to help, offer advice and guidance. Well, we had a superb time...the diving was excellent as ever. We travelled the island with The Dive Bus but also did our own little trips to the secluded beaches (ask for pointers for the best ones). The dive operation has made some changes since the last report I wrote and their shop looks really cool now. Diving on the house reef is great with some superb wreckage offering some great chances to see lots of huge crab, lobsters, green morays, eagle rays, tarpon etc. Great night diving on this car pile wreck too. We'd like to thanks Mark and Suzy gaian for a wonderful time, great entertainment and for dive guides second to none. Date posted: 09-May-2006 21:54 by: Graham
July 2005	If you only intend to dive - ok, otherwise this was the most unfriendly Carribean island we've been to. I would not recommend it to anyone - I would go out of my way to discourage it. Date posted: 26-Feb-2006 18:26 by: localDM

Wreck Dives:

Here are the wreck dives we know of for Curacao.

Superior Producer

Ranked as Awesome by independant reviews

In September, 1977 Superior Producer left the Santa Anna Bay in Willemstad loaded with goods bound for Columbia. Immediately outside the harbor, heavy seas shifted the cargo and the ship began to take on water. Unable to save her, workers towed the ship away from the channel, letting her sink in her current location. Roughly 200 feet long, you’ll find this wreck sitting upright on a sand plateau between two reefs. The hull sits in 100 feet of water, with the bridge at 80 feet.

22m / 72ft

35m / 115ft

Accidental sinking: 01-Dec-1977

Wreck penetration is possible.

Technical or decompression diving.

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Diver reviews for Superior Producer:

Easily accessible wreck, diving from the shore adds to the ease of reaching it! Yes the reef swim back adds as a good relaxation period after the wreck. Just be wary of heavy surf on entry and exit!
Date posted: 27-Jun-2008 08:40 by: x who thought that: Anyone can dive this wreck.
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A diver friendly wreck, accessable from the shore with a pleasant reef swim back. Able to access all parts of the wreck.
Date posted: 23-Nov-2005 04:16 by: Q who thought that: Anyone can dive this wreck.
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