Diving Vaersenbaai (aka Kokomo Beach) Curaçao | The Shore Dive Collection | TropicLens - 4K
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
- Vaersenbaai is one of our favorite dive sites on Curaçao. Not only because it has a terrific reef with a very nice drop off, but there are so many other highlights that you can’t fit them all into a single dive. While the massive car wrecks, metal shark sculpture and sunken pontoon offer (fairly deep) artificial objects, a swim along the base of the towering cliffs provides a completely different ecosystem. I have not seen so many brain corals in one place.
We also caught a few fish and other creatures that were new to us, which is always exciting. During several day dives, we saw a flamefish, cero and sailors choice, while a Caribbean furry lobster and cup corallimorph were highlights on the night dive.
We want to encourage more shore diving, so this video provides some guidance where the site is, how to dive it and what you may see there. If you want to skip to or review specific topics, the section timings are as follows.
0:26 Site Background/Description
2:32 Site Logistics
4:52 Dive Profile
7:57 Sea Life
10:50 Night Diving
Please add a comment and let us know what you saw there.
Can’t wait to dive on Curacao in August! Thanks for all your amazing videos
Sorry for the delay Geert. We took some time off and are now getting back into the swing of things. We are so glad you like our videos and thank you for the kind words. We're actually working on a few more from Curaçao. (Diving Superior Producer tomorrow!)
Excellent video!
Thank you so much Kathleen.
Looks cool. Thanks for sharing. I'll dive that one for sure next time I'm there 😮
Glad you liked the video Joseph. We're heading back to Curaçao for February/March and will have a few more videos from there, including Superior Producer, Playa Kalki and the Stella Maris reef.
Thank you !!! Great Info January 2022 here we come!
Glad you like it! :-) We will be returning to Curaçao in February for a few months, so we will be able to get a few more videos done. Cas Abou, Director's Bay, Playa Kalki and a few others are on the list. Let us know what you thought of the sites and what your favorite is.
Love your videos!
You are very kind for commenting on all of these. :-)
Great video again. I miss diving. Hope to dive with you again after lockdown. Greetings Henk
Thanks Henk. We would have loved to dive again with you; however the lockdown got the best of us and our time on Curaçao came to and end. We are now on Bonaire and will be here through October. We really loved Curaçao and will be coming back again for sure!
@@TropicLens oh wow. I didnt know that. Well love to see your footage from bonaire. I did a lot of diving overthere in the nineties. Still got some friends there. Stay safe
I don’t even dive but I am giving this video a thumbs up for the quality. That and how much knowledge you share, more people who are interested in this topic should see this! Very nicely done video.
Wow, that is very kind of you to say Saida.! Not sure if you snorkel (rather than dive), but hopefully it shows off some of what you might see doing that as well. Either way, we appreciate your comment a lot. Thanks! :-)
Your videos are a fantastic resource. Many thanks for doing the. The overview on how to get to the sites is very helpful and the video quality is great.
Thank you so much Eric! We're glad you enjoy them. :-)
Lol the cat at the end… I told my wife on our dive trip to Mahahual Mexico we can’t trust the dive shop if it doesn’t have cats. We got there and they had a bookshelf with baskets for at least six cats to sleep in.🤣 I liked this video. I definitely need to work towards getting my AOW, and getting my wife comfortable so she might join me there.
Agree on the cat rule! :-) AOW is worth it as it "formally" lets you get down to recreational limits where there are some nice wrecks and statues in Curaçao...and other places. We have met couples where only one dives. It's doable; but if your wife gets the bug, it makes things easier. There's always local buddy boards.
@@TropicLens she dives too, but isn’t feeling comfortable enough to advance yet. Part of the reason I want it is I think the rescue diver course seems like a very valuable course, and it’s a prerequisite.
@@Chogogo717 Indeed, rescue is a great (albeit exhausting) course. I stopped there, but Leslie continued to DM (before we met). AOW also has some mandatory and elective elements like deep, night and navigation...all of which increases confidence underwater. Continue the journey my friend. There is so much to see. 😃
@@TropicLens I think once I get through rescue I’ll shift more towards the tec side as I get better. Either way it’ll be fun.
Ahhh...they are just wrapping up Tech Week at Buddy Dive Resort here. Great opportunity to get exposure to a lot of equipment. Something to consider in the future. Looks like it will be the last week of September next year. (buddydive.com/events/bonaire-tek/)
Enjoying the videos kids.
Glad to hear that John. Enjoying the "kids" comments given our age. :-)
Hey David hope ur having good time in Kokomo beach
Thanks Swapna. We had terrific dives each time we went. Sadly, with the lockdown, we won't be able to get to any more Curaçao dive site...but Bonaire is on tap at the end of the week! :-)
rain????????
That was a fun day!
@@TropicLens was the rain warm?
Warm yes, but it also stung a bit because they were large drops and it was quite windy. Still, quite nice underwater though. Great diffused lighting. :-).