Curaçao is part of the 2nd biggest coral wall in the world.

24 places tu scuba dive in curaçaco — Its crystalline blue waters, Curaçao is a great spot for diving.

Here are de best spots for diving:

Eel Valley

On the east side of Santa Barbara Resort, and just underneath its golf course, we find this amazing dive site.

Booby Trap

Perfect place to work on some sponge identification: all types of sponges cover the slope.

Double Reef

West of Santa Ana Bay, this double reef has its shallows covered with small brain corals and loads of sun anemones.

Shipwreck Point

This is like diving inside an aquarium! Next to our dive shop, sits one of the heathiest reefs around Curacao.

Beacon Point

Currents make this site and intermediate to advanced dive. Largest pillar coral formation in the Caribbean at this dive.

Klein Curacao

A very special trip for divers only. They say that in Klein Curacao underwater everything is bigger and there is more of it.

Cornelius Bay

Elkhorn Coral can be spotted during this dive on the plateau. Sea horses are found around the many gorgonians along the wall.

Mushroom Forest

One of the most famous dive sites in Curacao. Over time hard coral formations have grown in such a way that they resemble mushrooms, hence the name.

Superior Producer

Sport Diver Magazine rates the Superior Producer as one of the Caribbean’s best wreck dives. This cargo freighter sunk in December of 1977 and is now sitting upright at a depth of 100ft/30m.

Newport

This beautiful and pristine Curacao dive site is only accessed by Ocean Encounters. A beautiful slope with great star coral, brain coral, and soft gorgonians.

Smokeys

How to describe this wonderful Curacao dive? It is pristine with large dense corals, great visibility and simply beautiful.

Blue Bay Gardens

A true underwater garden. Box crabs in the sand, octopus, and baby clusters of brain and star corals. On the slope gorgonians, large brain and star corals. Lots of cleaning stations.

Snake Bay

If you want to be in the middle of a fish traffic jam, this is the dive site for you. Huge Jacks chasing bait balls, Caribbean Chromies, Creole Wrasses, Southern Rays, and Turtles.

East Point

A pristine and unspoiled reef at the very East of Curacao. Only to be reached by boat trip, this site is part of our Special Boat Trip to Klein Curacao.

Barracuda Point

A favorite Curacao dive, covered in dense coral formations, gorgonians and boulder corals. Turtles are spotted often on this dive site, as well as jacks and barracudas.

Small Wall

The name says it all, it is a wall and it is small. Overhangs and little nooks house schools of soldier fish, grunts, and damsels protecting their gardens and eggs.

Director’s Bay

Perfectly suited for divers and snorkelers. This dive site landmark is an old decaying shark fence now covered in corals and sponges.

Lost Anchor

A favorite Curacao Dive Site, bright and colorful.Beautiful lush wall covered in gorgonians and sea fans. Dense coral growth hides an anchor chain that keeps on going forever.

Jan Thiel

A typical Curacao diving spot starting at a sandy plateau going down on a sloping reef. The best treat at the end of the dive will be the curious school of squid looking directly into your eyes.

Sandy’s Plateau

Gorgonians and hard corals, and everything in between. An excellent dive site to spot lobsters under the overhangs and crabs hiding in the large barrel sponges.