This was our second trip to Curacao and both times the crew from GO WEST Diving (formerly known as an Ocean Encounters West) made us feel very welcome and safe underwater. The girls at the front desk and at the rental counter were very nice, efficient and helpful. The Dive Masters Ryan, Steve and Jon were very knowledgable and experienced.... More

First off, this was my THIRD trip back. First time I went solo, second time I brought a whole bunch of others; this past trip I brought my 11 year old son for the PADI Junior Open Water course. I'm a PADI certified divemaster, so if this is the place I brought my son for his first ever dive experience... More

I dove with OEW for 9 days, July 15-July 25. My last dive of the trip, at Watamula, was my 300th in my five-year diving career, and it capped off a most memorable trip with a friendly, helpful group of dive masters. Every day was a great new adventure, and even though the dive boat was quite croweded on a... More

Ocean Encounters West is an extremely professional operation featuring mature and knowledgable divemasters and an accomodating staff. My wife and I are experienced divers who chose OEW for its location on the west end of Curacao, which we found has excellent diving (rivaling Bonaire in our opinion). The boat dives are guided, but competent divers with computers are given an... More

While staying at hotel next door, we tried to arrange Junior OWD lessons for my 10-years old son. This did not work out after 2 days of asking and the feeling remained that this is mainly the result of prefering larger profitable groups over kids. Ultimately we were able to arrange the lessons and have a perfect and personal diving... More

Although the have daily boat dives, we chose to rent tanks, weights and bcd's and just do shore dives. Get a map of all the dive sites in Curacao and off we went. You can just leave your equipment there so you don't have to carry it back and forth. I had trouble with an o- ring in my high... More

My husband and I stayed at the Lodge Kura Hulanda and did the Discover Scuba experience at Ocean Encounters West, right next door. We had such a great time! The staff was excellent, and Amy, our instructor was so much fun and a great teacher. We couldn't have asked for a better experience for our first dive--we can't wait to... More

This was our second trip to the village of Westpunt in Curacao. We returned because of the experience we had last June. This time we stayed at All West Apartments and Diving. All West has an affiliation with Ocean Encounters West Dive shop. This allowed us unlimited shore dives from our apartment. We arrived late from Miami. Louis the owner... More

We dove for the week of June 19-24 with OEW. I cannot say enough about how impressed I was with the operation, the staff and the whole experience. Everyone we encountered was professional and willing to make our experience one of the best we have ever had. As far as I'm concerned OEW is one of if not the best... More