News
New instructors!!!
Remco
and Sonja are really leaving now
Yes you are reading it right.
Remco and Sonja are leaving Dive Statia and also the
After a 2 week holiday to the
Because they where not planning to have a goodbye party we (Rudy and Rinda) decided to organize one.
It was a real Dutch party with Dutch food and lots of drinks.
See photo’s from the party in our updated photo album.
Because
of the leaving of Remco and Sonja we needed new instructors.
We found this nice Dutch couple.
They are full of energy and they can’t wait to take you diving.
Hello everybody
allow us to introduce ourselves.
We are
Marieke en Mike a young and spontaneous couple from
We both are in love with the oceans, with diving as our big passion. Mike’s big thing is underwater photography while Marieke loves to give you your first underwater experience. We make sure we treat you the way we like to be treated ourselves.
We can’t wait to take you down in our beautiful Statia dive sites.
Hope to see you soon,
Marieke
PADI OWSI 944914
Mike
PADI Course Director 937160
Dan Instructor Trainer
Hurricane Dean
– Preparation and Aftermath
Preparation
Like most people know, we had to prepare for the threat of hurricane Dean.
Therefore we had to remove the dive boats from the water.
Two cranes, Flatbed truck and a forklift were used the whole day to pull all the boats of Statia.
Aftermath
We were lucky that the hurricane past about 180 miles south of us. We did receive Tropical storm force winds and very large waves. And we lost most of the beach.
The local airline stopped all of their flights after
See more pictures on our photo album.
Turtle Hatchlings
The first
turtles have hatched. Rinda and Sonja were able to help guide them to the
water.
More are
expected to hatch any day. There are more pictures in the photo album.
Turtle Watch
The new
season for the turtle patrol has started.
This
means that on Zeelandia beach volunteers will walk
the whole night to see if turtles (leatherbacks and green) come to lay their
eggs on the beach.
On April
19 we where all very lucky to witness one of the leatherback’s laying the
eggs and covering up the nest.
We feel very privileged to experience this event because very few people in the world will ever have that chance.
Judge Judy
You’ll never
guess who visited Statia. The most
popular American television judge Judith Sheindlin (Judge Judy), her husband
Gerry Sheindling (also a popular TV judge of People’s Court and one of my favorites, Florence
Henderson, who played the mother in the popular 1970s TV series, The Brady
Bunchy. Gerry popped into the dive
shop and asked Rudy who owned the truck outside. Rudy said that he did. Gerry then offered Rudy two of the four
women outside if he would drive them uptown. That’s a long way up you
know. Rudy told him he wanted all
four of the women. He agreed and
they entered the dive shop and introduced themselves. The rest is history.
Nick and Caroline Robertson
Brown (ex employees of Dive Statia) left us three years ago to start their own
dive shop in
Seahorse and pipefish.
The year 2006 was a very lucky year for rare finds.
We had two seahorses which were found on Double Wreck and on
Barracuda.
Lucky Sonja found the very rare white-nose pipefish on Double
Wreck.
Redoing the road in
town.
The island is
restoring the roads in our beautiful historical district to what they use to
look in the olden days.
It’s going to look really nice.
As soon as it’s finished we will give you some more
pictures.