Diving in Curaçao October 2024

Steven A. Melnick October 16, 2024

This past week I had the pleasure of scuba diving on the island of Curaçao, a small Dutch island about 45 miles off the coast of Venezula. In the southern Carribean, the island is below the "hurricane belt" and the weather is usually dry and mild. The Dive Bus is my "go to" dive shop as I think it is the best on the island. The staff are friendly and personable, safety focused, and always fun to hang out with and dive.

With good friends and dive buddies, Tim Schaeffer and Deborah Potts-Ragan, we spent a week on Curaçao and enjoyed five days of diving in addition to some really fine dining. As always, it was an adventure.

Hanging out at Kokomo...

Diving on Curaçao is shore diving. So each day we loaded our gear and tanks into The Dive Bus and the Divemaster drove us out to different spots on the island: Kokomo Beach, Cao Abao, Snake Bay, and Playa Porto Mari--which, by the way, has wild pigs roaming around the beach--and of course The Dive Bus House Reef. Below is a link to some of the better shots from each day/dive site. They are shared from my Google Drive so the quality is better than this website allows. Enjoy. Turn your sound on !

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