The Diving Smurf, nickname for a dive instructor in Curaçao, went for a really deep dive. The target was the wreck of the Stella Maris at 450 feet deep, way beyond the safe diving limits for a recreational dive. The Diving Smurf, although adventurous, is not that reckless to do this with traditional dive equipment. This happened in a safe way with the submarine of Curaçao Substation.

Last Wednesday, September 1, 2010, my dive buddy Rob and I went for a dive at the Superior Producer wreck. The sea was very quiet because of the presence of hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean. That made it very easy to enter and exit the water. I went with my camera with wide angle lens to make pictures of the wreck using the external strobe. Normally I use ambient light on this wreck; in that way I am able to get panoramic pictures of the wreck. Today I wanted to do it differently. And with a completely different and in my opinion very pleasing result.

On Saterday, August 28, 2010, Rob and I went for a dive to Daaibooi. Not my favorite dive site because it takes a long surface swim to reach the drop-off and on the way back to the shore under water there is almost nothing else to see than a lot of sand. The drop-off is very gradual which makes the navigation also a bit more complicated because you have to choose a good navigational landmark and mark its depth accurately otherwise you will miss it on the way back. Not that this will be a big problem because the bay is very wide.

On Wednesday, August 25, 2010, Rob and I did an early dive (8:15 AM) at Mari Pampun. As soon as we left the bay I saw that the visibility was low; far worse than we are accustomed to in our waters. The water was slightly milky. Maybe because of the rain that we had the last days. I cannot remember that it was ever this bad. From other divers I hear similar stories from other dive sites along the South-Eastern coast.

As already mentioned on this website the reconstruction of this beach with facilities has started and that means that parking the car here during is dive is much safer than before. So Rob and I decided to get a good look at the pontoon at this dive site. The pontoon is used in the past to transport the car wrecks to this site. The car wrecks are located under a buoy and require a surface swim of about 20 minutes followed by a short deep dive because the wrecks lie from 20 to beyond 40 meters. The pontoon is located halfway between the beach and the car wrecks and can easily be reached by diving along the reef towards the left.