Best dive shop in Curaçao. Super friendly and knowledgeable staff, world class diving sites and exceptionally careful with hygiene during these strange times. Paul is an incredible dive master and... read more everyone else is super nice. We cannot recommend them enough!

  Ocean Encounters are the best caring,cautious and most of all FUNNNNN dive guides .
Such a great experience I went alone and left making many friends under... read more water and on land .
See you soon everyone for another amazing dive trip.

  My family first went diving with Ocean Encounters in July 2019 with our newly certified 13 year old. Being newly certified, our son was a bit nervous but... read more our dive instructor took him under his wing and he was able to get a specialty certification towards advanced diver on his first true open water experience! We loved the island so much that we booked our return trip while still in Curacao for March 2020. My son's dive instructor remembered him and was so welcoming that we were back. The diving was incredible and we were able to go to different sites than previously visiting. Also on this last trip, my 9 year old took a bubble maker class with Cindy and he felt so at ease and enjoyed his experience tremendously. Now, recently turning 10, he will be the youngest in our family to get certified. The owner, Jeremiah, is also amazing to work with. His operation is run by awesome staff members. The boats are very clean and well equipped and the rental equipment is in great shape. There are plenty of restaurants right near the shop so you can enjoy a cold drink after diving. No doubt we will return to see them again!

  I have been diving around the world and I’m currently working on becoming an instructor. I have been to Curaçao this February 2020, I am supposed to go to Belize... read more in about three weeks for a week-long liveaboard dive trip, and we have 3 weeks booked for November this year for a whole lot of diving!

The dive shop is onsite at Sunscape resort (see my Sunscape review), they have a nice gear room that is locked at night, and a nice dock with easy access to board the boat. Their main shop is 5 minutes up the road/water where they dock the boats at night, but they go back and forth every day. You can either stay onsite at Sunscape or any resort nearby and simply transport to their main shop. Easy.

I truly enjoyed diving with the Ocean Encounters dive team. Everyone was nice, the dive team, boat captains, everyone. The boats nice, each had a head, all the appropriate safety gear (first aid, oxygen, etc.), and freshwater shower heads. They help with your gear, and truly try to make your time enjoyable.

The dive masters and captains are very safety minded as well. Always attentive to everyone’s needs, role call when dive is complete before boat pulls away, checking each diver before entering the water (you know, is your air turned on?).

The dives were good, lots and lots of life! Large macro soft coral. Light currents, light surging, simply easy diving.

I enjoyed diving all week with everyone. Enjoyed visiting the shop and chatting, so many nice folks. Cynthia was wonderful. I enjoyed our tugboat dive where we went under the pier and more.

  I recommend Ocean Encounters if you plan on scuba diving during your visit to Curacao.

Our group, RU4 Scuba of Rochester, departed daily from their facility at... read more Sunscape Resort.

Divemasters Chris and Cynthia did a great job of keep everone safe. They were helpfull in assembling my scuba gear from time-to-time.

The only "ding" was the lack of an O2 analyzer for those divers using NITROX on board the boat. Our group leader insisted on having one.

  I traveled with a group for a week of diving with Ocean Encounters and had a wonderful time. Our dive masters Chris and Cynthia were awesome, lots of fun and... read more very helpful as I had gone a few years since doing my first few dives. They were very knowledgeable and in tune with their ocean- there were a lot of strange currents that week that apparently were very unusual and they noticed every irregularity and adapted when needed, allowing for the best dives. Chris made everything a lot of fun.

  Super outfit. Very professional, well organised. Lovely dive staff, very helpful.. Alot of fun too. Definitely a place I would recommend shame I was not able to dive more. Thank... read more you for memorable time.

  After a bunch of "discovery" dives at various resort destinations, I decided to devote a couple of vacation days to completing my open water diver certification with the great team... read more at Ocean Encounters Diving - Curacao.

Their facility, equipment, and personnel are top-notch. My instructor Ivo was highly knowledgeable and helped build my confidence and skills with each session.

I was able to complete the theory sessions with the online SSI app and completed 2 skill practicing dives in shallow water and 4 open water dives along their house reef. It was terrific. I had only 2 other divers in class and we were able to spend some quality time exploring the reef and the local aquatic live.

Everyone I interacted with at Ocean Encounters went out of their way to ensure I was feeling comfortable and confident. I highly recommend their training center in Curacao for earning your initial diving certification and guiding your dive trip.

  For ten days I scuba dived with Coral Restoration Curacao which is based at Ocean Encounters diving connected with Lions Dive Beach Resort. Coral Restoration Curacao taught me a lot about... read more corals and allowed me to do something very concrete and real about their ‘repopulation’. I worked underwater carefully manipulating corals to facilitate their growth and reproduction. CRC is lucky to have such dedicated and professional caretakers. They are great diving buddies, they made me improve my buoyancy and I have enjoyed every minutes in their company.

  Well organized operation. 3 days, 6 dives. Great staff, nice boat. Very professional. Followed all safety protocol. 12 to 14 divers on a boat.

  Ocean Encounters and Coral Restoration Curacao (CRC) have a great partnership going. I was able to complete my PADI Coral Restoration Diver Specialty with them and then put my... read more learning to work out in the coral nurseries and outplantings they have just offshore. This was a wonderful way to combine my love of diving with doing just a little something to help. Each time I ‘worked’ on the corals, I met other divers that also understood the necessity and the thrill of helping these amazing communities grow. On a more selfish note, while swimming back to shore, I came across some of those less common creatures I love to see including: a seahorse, upside down jellyfish, squid, an octopus, a flying gunard and a box crab! I like to think that if people understood how important corals are to both the life in our oceans and how they impact our own lives on land that groups like CRC would have so many volunteers and affiliated dive companies that there would be coral nurseries everywhere! I understand the aquarium next door is also doing some coral restoration work and I heard a couple of other dive shops on the island are becoming interested in helping out. Maybe it’s starting...
Every time I went out and cleaned the coral trees or got a chance to outplant corals was an opportunity for me to give a little of my time and energy to something important. Thank you to Katie Leeper, Hannah and the crew of Ocean Encounters for making this possible.

  Did a week of diving after not having do much in years. Did a checkout dive to get comfortable. By the end of a week did a wreck dive and... read more enjoyed it. Safety-conscious and Friendly staff.