Dive Review of Dive Charter Curacao/Marazul Dive Resort in
Curaçao

Other Curaçao reports
Subscriber Content Preview
Active subscribers go here

Dive Charter Curacao/Marazul Dive Resort, Mar, 2012, by Brigitte Lacouture, AK, US ( Contributor 15 reports with 4 Helpful votes). Report 6470.
No photos available at this time
Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food	N/A
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving
Snorkeling	N/A
Overall Rating
Value for $$
Beginners
Advanced
Comments	We did two days of boat dives with Dive Charter Curacao, owned by Niels Jorissen. He dives west, east, Klein Curacao, and other spots, going for more remote locations as well as popular sites. He uses a RIB, which can move fast, but is uncovered from the sun so bring sunscreen or some cover, especially when diving east side as he can not beach the boat as it is private property. His operation is low key, he meets you at the launch where he puts his boat into the water. The small group sizes, we had 6 divers each day plus dive master Ron, made it easy to interact with the other divers and made the diving pleasant. Although this setup would seem more appropriate for more advanced divers, we had some less experienced divers on board. Ron was accommodating in that he let my wife and I continue our dives to 60 minutes on our own with his float when he had to take the other divers up earlier; he just asked us to not go longer than 60 minutes, which was fair to us and those on the boat. Lunch was meat, cheese, and fresh buns with soda and water to drink, plenty of food for seconds. We had originally booked charters with Niels for 3 days, but he did not have enough people for the trip to Klein Curacao and we did not want 2 hr boat ride on big boat with snorkelers and beachgoers, so we ended up just going east and west with DCC. The two east dives were on walls and were completely blanketed with soft corals, quite extraordinary, and the two west dives, Watamula and Mushroom Forest, were fine, but would have benefited from more sun penetrating the water as the day was partly cloudy. All dives were drift in mild current. For our shore dives we got tanks from Ocean Encounters West (Westpunt) and from Discovery Diving (Lagun). The former are much larger, but also more expensive; the latter are definitely more low key, but also less expensive, a couple dollars less for both tanks and weights. Playa Lagun had 6 scorpionfish (along the cliff not on the reef), Alice in Wonderland had excellent coral and fish population as did the Marazul Resort house reef. Apart from the variety of Caribbean fish, we saw several Lionfish on each dive. Marazul Resort is relaxing, no crowds or hustle and bustle, and has very clean, planted grounds. The unit was well equipped and caught the steady breezes on the island so we did not even need to run the air conditioning.
Websites	Dive Charter Curacao Marazul Dive Resort
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	101-250 dives
Where else diving	Saba, Cayman, St. Vincent, Cozumel, Tahiti, Fiji, Borneo, Hawaii, GBR
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, windy, cloudy	Seas	calm, no currents
Water Temp	26-26°C / 79-79°F	Wetsuit Thickness	4
Water Visibility	20-30 M / 66-98 Ft
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	Time limit of 60 minutes for consideration of other divers.
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	N/A
What I Saw
Sharks	None	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	None	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish
Large Pelagics
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter	N/A	Boat Facilities	N/A
Overall rating for UWP's	N/A	Shore Facilities	N/A
UW Photo Comments	[None]

Leave a comment (Subscribers only -- 200 words max)
Subscribers can comment here

Subscribers can post comments, ask the reviewer questions, as well as getting immediate and complete access to ALL 221 dive reviews of Curaçao and all other dive destinations. Complete access to all issues and Chapbooks is also included.

All Curaçao Dive Reviews and Reports
Diving Guide to Curaçao
Diving Reviews for All Dive Destinations

Want to assemble your own collection of Curaçao reports in one place?
Use the Mini Chapbook Facility to create your personalized collection.

Note: The information here was reported by the author above, but has NOT been reviewed nor edited by Undercurrent prior to posting on our website. Please report any major problems by writing to us and referencing the report number above.

Undercurrent Home

Page computed and displayed in 0.15 seconds

Get more dive info like these and other important scuba updates sent monthly to your email. And a FREE Recent Issue of Undercurrent
Get a free monthly email and a sample issue!

Dive Review of Dive Charter Curacao/Marazul Dive Resort in Curaçao

Dive Charter Curacao/Marazul Dive Resort, Mar, 2012,

Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):

Overall Rating

Reporter and Travel

Dive Conditions

Dive Policy

What I Saw

Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):

Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):

Dive Review of Dive Charter Curacao/Marazul Dive Resort in
Curaçao