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Ocean Encounters Diving/Lions Dive, Dec, 2011, by Jeff Bloomer, IL, US ( Contributor 19 reports with 3 Helpful votes). Report 6375.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving
Snorkeling	N/A
Overall Rating
Value for $$
Beginners
Advanced
Comments	Shore diving was very nice at the resort. My wife spotted a large Octopus on the first dive, during the day. A lot of Lion fish on all the dive sites. Typical reef fish but plenty of health coral. We did not have a chance to dive any wreaks as we wanted time to do some shore diving. The shore diving was good with most of the surface swims a bit longer than at Bonaire. The resort was well maintained. On check in our room was suppose to be an Ocean View but wasn't and it wasn't cleaned. The front desk moved us immediately to the right room and we didn't have any other issues. The resort is mostly visited by Dutch with only a few of us Americans visiting while we were there. We did not try the onsite finer dining restaurant because I had been told by someone who had visited a week earlier that the service was terrible and having stopped by there the first night I could tell that was the case, the staff didn't care if you were there or not. Augusto's which is right across from the resort was a great place to eat with good Italian offerings. There were a couple of places we ate at in town that were good as well but avoid the mexican restaurant at the cruise ship terminal, pretty crummy food. In stead go upstairs from there and enjoy a some great ribs and a view of the ocean. All in all Curacao is a great island, bigger than most with very good diving.
Websites	Ocean Encounters Diving
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	501-1000 dives
Where else diving	Throughout the Caribbean, North Carolina, Hawaii, Florida, Iowa, Illinois
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, rainy	Seas	calm
Water Temp	83-84°F / 28-29°C	Wetsuit Thickness
Water Visibility	80-100 Ft/ 24-30 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	Dive time was limited to around 50 minutes on most dives.
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	None	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	1 or	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	My UW DSLR and housing bumped around with smaller point and shoots in their own bucket of water. It was ok but a camera table would have been nice but it was used for plastic cups for drinking water. The DMs didn't always know how to hand off the camera trying to grab the strobe arms rather than the housings handles.

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Dive Review of Ocean Encounters Diving/Lions Dive in Curaçao

Ocean Encounters Diving/Lions Dive, Dec, 2011,

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Dive Review of Ocean Encounters Diving/Lions Dive in
Curaçao