Dive Review of Ocean Encounters Diving/Lions Dive and Beach Resort in
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Ocean Encounters Diving/Lions Dive and Beach Resort: "Ocean Encounters", Dec, 2017, by George Lynch, MA, US ( Reviewer 6 reports with 6 Helpful votes). Report 10073 has 1 Helpful vote.
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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
Overall Rating
Value for $$
Beginners
Advanced
Comments	Very professional dive operation, but mediocre diving. Nice boats, large and comfortable, and staff very helpful and friendly. Water was so warm, roughly 84 degrees, that no wetsuit was necessary on hour-long dives. Reef appears fairly healthy, with little trash, good numbers of small fish and other critters, but no large fish to be seen. Unlike other reporters, I saw no turtles or nurse sharks in nine dives there. Visibility was around 40 feet, current nonexistent, and only mild surge on a couple of occasions during the four days I dived with them. Ocean was calm and trips to dive sites generally brief, though longer excursions available for an extra fee. Again, dive guides were wonderful and they were by no means overly-domineering regarding unnecessary rules for experienced divers. Some pleasant, if unexciting, diving to be done here, but I suspect it is much too tame for most experienced divers, though probably a great place for the novice.
Websites	Ocean Encounters Diving Lions Dive and Beach Resort
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	501-1000 dives
Where else diving	Egypt Red Sea; Taveuni and Ringgold Islands Fiji; Palau; Sipadan Island; Kenya; Zanzibar; Hawaii (Big Island); Grand, Brac and Little Caymans; Cayos Cochinos, Roatan, Honduras; Belize; Phuket Thailand; Akumal, Cozumel, Cabo San Lucas, Mexico; Sangalakhi Island Indonesia; Costa Rica; Jamaica; DR....
Closest Airport	Curacao International	Getting There	Bring a good roadmap (or use website) as it is hard to find your way around initially, and rental car free maps are useless.
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny	Seas	calm, no currents
Water Temp	84-85°F / 29-29°C	Wetsuit Thickness
Water Visibility	30-50 Ft/ 9-15 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	There were guidelines but divemasters seemed very flexible regarding experienced divers diving their own profiles. They even allowed one diver to go off completely on his own at his request. I found them very nonrestrictive but still quite safety oriented.
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	yes
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	N/A
Large Pelagics	N/A
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities	N/A
UW Photo Comments	I am not a photographer, though I saw many. There was always a separate rinse tank for cameras but, in spite of instructions not to use it to rinse masks, I saw people doing just that, repeatedly, and no chastisement from divemasters resulting.

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Dive Review of Ocean Encounters Diving/Lions Dive and Beach Resort in Curaçao/near Punda

Ocean Encounters Diving/Lions Dive and Beach Resort: "Ocean Encounters", Dec, 2017,

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Dive Review of Ocean Encounters Diving/Lions Dive and Beach Resort in
Curaçao/near Punda