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 ABOUTfeatured: 30 Best Snorkeling Blogs Fun Ways to enjoy the caribbeanOLDER POST:Tiny Nudibranch, Caribbean Nudibranch, CuracaoNEWER POST:Juvenile Dusky Damselfish, Baby Reef FishAug 18, 10 Comments Off
Good evening friends, tonight’s photo is dedicated to our friend Arjan who we worked with for years and recently moved back to Holland to start a bed and breakfast getaway. At around 300 feet out in front of the Curacao Sea Aquarium there is a big rock with the most beautiful yellow and red Deep Water Gorgonian on it that you will ever see! Arjan and Dutch first found this place while diving here many years back, and yes you read that right, they used to dive to this place with tanks! Ok, not just any tanks, they used mixed gasses and carried multiple tanks at once and would have to spend hours decompressing on the way back to the surface. Remember folks, for most people diving to 100 to 130 feet is considered the maximum for regular scuba diving but these guys went a step further and trained how to go super deep, it’s called tec diving and it can be very dangerous but also very rewarding. So apparently Arjan was the first to discover this place and now it’s one of the many stops we make during “The Beauty Run” in the new Curacao Mini-Sub. This is Kendra on the left and Nicky on the right this morning during a super fun tour we took exploring the reef and looking for new creatures. Our goal was to find a new deep water fish that lives at around 400 feet that is being named after Nicky but we never found one. You just can’t imagine all the beautiful stuff there is to look at way down below the Earths surface, creatures and fish that only a handful of humans have ever seen! You can see the little red numbers above Nicky’s head reading our current depth, I love watching that thing as we go deeper and deeper and just can’t believe how lucky we all are to see such things! Our Beauty Run tour lasts around an hour and starts out at about 185 feet. We usually go to a giant sunken anchor first that is just filled with fish and teaming with life. We then fly over fields of beautiful sponges on our way to the two sunken tug boats then drop down to a place called “Jeff’s Ledge” which is exploding in colors to beautiful to even describe! After that it’s down deeper to “Arjans Rock” and then deeper to 400 to 500 feet exploring the walls and sandy patches for new and unusual creatures. We had two ladies today from England who took this tour as well in the afternoon and just loved it,! So again for those of you visiting Curacao or already here stop by or call us to make a reservation, you will not be disappointed! Again it’s www.substation-curacao.com or call +5999-465-2051 and remember you get a photo shoot with me as well underwater included in the price, I can take your photos inside or outside it’s all up to you!
Aimee had the day off and took the dogs to Saint Joris for a great morning of fun in the sun! Unfortunately we no longer have a day off together any more, I am hoping that we can eventually fix that once the sub station gets more under way.
Off to bed, see you tomorrow, Barry
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