Relaxed Guided Dives
0000CW Willemstad
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Relaxed Guided Dives has been around for many years and is a well-known and popular diving school on Curaçao. We would like to welcome you for a cup of coffee and discuss with you how we can make your diving experience on our beautiful diving island even better. For us, your safety and personal experience are the most important things. We know all the dive sites on the island, we dive on the quiet South side and when conditions permit even on the rough North side. Inquire about our boat trips, we dive at Oostpunt and we even take you to Klein Curaçao.
You can book all courses with us, from your first diving experience in a protected bay to specialized dives such as hunting for lionfish, special night dives, wreck diving on the Superior Producer, boat diving, drift diving, ... We are the only diving center on the island that also offers diving with a full face mask. If there are people in your party who do not dive, we think that they can enjoy themselves on the beach during your dive.
We fill air and nitrox for all our customers, both tourists and locals, but also for other diving schools in the area. With us you are guaranteed the best quality for the best price. If you buy a card for 10 cylinders you will get 2 for free from us, if you buy a 20 you will even get 5 for free. There are always cylinders ready and if necessary we can fill 4 cylinders in less than 1 minute. Be sure to take a look at our retail shop, where you can find various nice scuba diving essentials and goodies.
Our diving center Relaxed Guided Dives is centrally located in the middle of the island at Martha Koosje 10 on the Road to Westpunt. Easily accessible by car, ample parking space, there is even a bus stop in front of the door. If you need transportation for diving, let us know and we will pick you up.
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★★★★☆ Tugboat
Tugboat is Curacao’s most famous dive and snorkel spot due to its shallow depth. It was wrecked just off the shore of Caracasbaai and sits in only 15 feet of water. The tugboat is crawling with marine life and is now covered in sponges and coral growth.
★★★★★ Superior Producer (Wreck)
Superior Producer is rated as one of the best wreck dives in the Caribbean, located between Double Reef and the entrance to St. Annabaai, this cargo ship sits upright on a sandy bottom at 30 m / 100 ft. The ship sank in 1977 and is covered with coral and sponges and has an openly accessible cargo bay.
★★★★☆ Double Reef
The first reef slopes down to about 14m / 46ft where it becomes a sandy bottom. From there you can see the second reef. The second reef starts around 18m / 60ft and drops down to 30 m/ 100ft and deeper.
★★★★☆ Playa Kalki / Alice in Wonderland
Playa Kalki with the dive site “Alice in Wonderland“ is the most north-western dive site which is possible from shore. A beautiful reef runs parallel to the beach with large coral formations. The best diving depth is between 5-20m.Parking, restaurant, toilets and diving school are on site.
★★★★☆ Marie Pampoen
A calm, easy shore dive where you enter the water from a small harbor. 20-30 meters out from the harbor you will find an interesting artificial reef made from dumped cars, cranes, and more scraps. Sometimes large tarpon hang around here.
★★★★☆ Jan Thiel baai
This bay is located at a busy beach so feel free to bring the family! Entering the water is easy and under water you will find a wreck and a platform, lots of sandy bottom up to a depth of 15m.
★★★★☆ Caracasbaai
A great, shallow reef perfect for newer divers and snorkelers. Accessible by boat. Full of colorful hard and soft corals and sponges and lots of marine life.
★★★★☆ Porto Mari
A beautiful house reef great for snorkelers to advanced divers. This site is technically a double reef with the first reef starting close to the beach and the second reef running out into the deep with a valley of sand running in between them. Easily accessible from shore.
★★★★☆ Playa Grandi / Playa Piscado
Playa Piskado, also called Playa Grandi, is a crowd puller. Turtles can be found on the top of the reef and near the small pier, where they get the leftovers of the fishermen to eat. The beautiful reef is further out and at 8 meters depth you can find a statue of the sea god Neptune.
★★★★☆ Playa Forti
Playa Forti is famous for the nice view. A staircase leads to the beach and there is a normal shore entrance. The reef a little further out has beautiful corals and rock formations. You can also find many sea creatures along the cliff and discover a lot.
★★★★☆ Water Factory / Fisherman’s Wharf
In front of the old water factory lies this gorgeous healthy shallow coral reef. There are lots of different hard corals and large barrel sponges and orange elephant ear sponges with a shallow steep wall just at the end of the coral reef.
★★★★☆ Director's Bay
Director’s Bay is a historical spot located between the famous Tugboat Reef and Small Wall dive sites. Up until 1985 this beach was privately owned by the Directors of the Royal Dutch Shell Group and the Dutch Royal family and was not accessible to the public. Now it’s a great shore diving location.
★★★★★ Playa Daaibooi
A great shore dive accessible from a quiet, calm beach out of the way of most of the tourist action. There are plenty of parking spaces, lots of shade, and benches to set up your gear on. Although a bit of a swim, the reef is healthy a beautiful.
★★★★☆ Playa Jeremi
Playa Jeremi is a small beach sandwiched between two mighty cliffs. The cove is a sandy plateau which slowly changes into a beautiful coral garden. Divers should swim out until just before the blue line. The reef is a slope that you can follow in a northerly or southerly direction.
★★★★☆ Snake Bay
This site is an easy entrance on the right-hand side of the pier, directly under the car park. Sandy bottom with the coral reef starting at 5 m /15 ft and the drop off at 10 m / 30 ft. At 35 m /115 ft the reef turns into a sandy bottom again.
Opening Hours
| Monday | 08:00 - 17:00 |
| Tuesday | 08:00 - 17:00 |
| Wednesday | 08:00 - 17:00 |
| Thursday | 08:00 - 17:00 |
| Friday | 08:00 - 17:00 |
| Saturday | 08:00 - 17:00 |
| Sunday | 08:00 - 17:00 |
Sometimes we are closed between 12:30/13:30
+599 9 - 868 7710 Visit WebsiteOpening Hours
| Monday | 08:00 - 17:00 |
| Tuesday | 08:00 - 17:00 |
| Wednesday | 08:00 - 17:00 |
| Thursday | 08:00 - 17:00 |
| Friday | 08:00 - 17:00 |
| Saturday | 08:00 - 17:00 |
| Sunday | 08:00 - 17:00 |
Sometimes we are closed between 12:30/13:30