Ocean Encounters - for your ocean encounters !

Ocean Encounters Dive Centre is an award winning,  Padi 5 Star  IDC Dive Centre and a National Geographic Scuba Diving Centre. The Ocean Encounters team of PADI Dive masters and outstanding boat captains give excellent personal service. the shop offers a full range of equipment for sale or hire. Nitrox is available.  There are daily dive schedules and dives range from walls and coral gardens to sloping reefs and wrecks. Dive the house reef at the SeaQuarium, East Point, Lost Anchor, Barracuda point, Beacon Point, the wreck of the Superior Producer, Tugboat and many more.  

Ocean Encounters are centrally located next to the Seaquarium complex with full service facilities on the Lions Dive Resort by Mambo Beach. Ocean Encounters also has facilities at Breezes, Hilton Curaçao, Kontiki Beach and Dive Resort and at All West on Playa Kalki.   Ocean Encounters' have comfortable, custom built dive boats. Staff are Medic First Aid and DAN Oxygen certified. You can also snorkel from the dive boats.

Ocean Encounters offer the full range of instruction courses from Discover Scuba Diving, Open Water, Specialties up to Dive master. They also have SASY for budding divers, who are a little young for the junior open water courses. SASY snorkeling sysem is suitable for children age 5 and over. In addition the centre has Bubble Maker courses for children 8 and over. Ocean Encounters can meet all diving enthusiasts' needs from the inexperienced to the most advanced.

Ocean Encounters West at All West Apartments is a 5 Star Gold Palm PADI Dive Centre They have daily boat dives to nearby dive sites such as Mushroom Forest and Watamula, and The Plane at Westpunt. New of Curacao and only at Ocean encounters – dive yaks suitable for two divers – and kit.  

Dolphin Dives - a dive of a lifetime. Organised in association with The Dolphin Academy. Five minutes by boat to Shipwreck point. After entering the water you will be joined by the dolphins and a trainer. You will be observing the dolphins' natural behaviour and experience close encounters with these wonderful creatures. These are (clearly) not captive dolphins and the joy is in the fact they choose to be with you in the water. Breathtaking !  
Mushroom Forest - rated as one of the World's Best Dives by Sport Diver Magazine. Majestic Star and Boulder coral rise up into mushroom shaped domes. Swim between the spectacular formations with schools of bar jacks and yellow tails.  
Klein Curaçao A small, uninhabited island east of Curaçao. Two-tank dive, swim, snorkel, or just relax on the soft white sand beach. Includes breakfast and a delicious BBQ. Klein is known for its turtles ! 
North Shore Diving Every Tuesday - divers who want to do some adventurous diving, a trip to the Northern shore of the island! Ocean Encounters have a 25-foot Tornado Rib.  On these dive sites you will see large lobsters, huge green moray eels, sea turtles, nurse sharks, and occasionally Caribbean reef sharks and manta rays!   ...........and much more