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Pure Diving Aruba can be reached via telephone at (297) 567 0582 or via email at
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On aruba for 2 months working at HOH and having the island expierence. One of my goals was diving, and it is totally perfect with pure diving! I recommend this diving centre highly. Family feeling, very good instructors and rapid answer with any of your questions. If you are alone or with a buddy, no problem here. Up to date materials and good knowledge of diving sites. They made me feel at home and welcome. If you Come to aruba and want to dive….contact them!
And above all…fair prices. – via
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I try to do plenty of research on any company that we use when traveling. I went back and forth on who I should dive with while visiting Aruba. I ended up going with Pure Diving Aruba because of their eco-friendly practices. However, this was the worst experience I’ve ever had diving with a company and I wish I would have gone with a different company. I’ll admit, part of it was my fault because of a misunderstanding on what we were doing on the first dive. However, I think the instructor Jay should have took some responsibility as well and apologized for his yelling in between dives.
In the short dive briefing of the first dive, Jay said he was going on a deeper dive with a guy trying to get his lionfish hunter certification. He told me and 2 others that he put with me, not to follow him with that guy once we got down there and to stay around 60 feet. I don’t remember the exact name of the other instructor, but I think it was a version of Michael. Michael was going to stay above us with 2 others around 40 feet.
I have my Advanced Open Water certification, so I’m certified up to 100 feet deep. Every dive I’ve previously done, we all go down together and then meet at a spot and split up, so that’s what I thought we were doing. I wasn’t paying attention to my depth (like I should have been) as we were descending, as I was following Jay, the instructor down. When I did check my depth, I was at 89 feet, well within the guidelines of my certification. The other 2 that were with me were above me and we stopped and started to go to a shallower depth. At this time, Jay started to come up to our depth and the other instructor came down to our depth, trying to communicate with us underwater.
I believe Jay’s student ended up having issues and went back up to the surface, which caused more issues and frustration for Jay. We only got to dive about 25 +/- minutes that first dive. Once we surfaced, we were quite a distance from the boat. Things happen, so not too big of a deal. I don’t know if the boat captain just never saw us or was dealing with other issues, but after waiting for quite awhile, we all started swimming back to the boat. The boat finally started moving towards us and picked us up.
Once we all got on the boat, Jay started yelling, which I felt was mostly directed at me. I apologized for the misunderstanding and that I thought I was originally to follow him to a stopping point and then he would split off. With me being certified up to 100 feet, I didn’t think it was as big of a deal as it was made out to be. He came over to check my computer and it showed that I went 89 feet. Jay never apologized for his actions even once we got back to the dock.
It just wasn’t that fun of an experience for me. The dive sites were decent, but nothing spectacular. I know mother nature controls what you will or won’t see, so I can’t blame the dive company for that. I understand things happen and don’t always go the way they’re planned and emotions can get the best of a person, which is probably what happened here and why I didn’t give a 1 star rating.
Positives: I like that the instructors put on neon green/yellow long sleeve shirts so they could easily be seen underwater. The rental equipment was of good quality and great shape.
Negatives: Dive briefings could be more detailed. There were no conversations about anything we saw underwater and nothing was pointed out while underwater either. Compared to other dive companies I’ve used around the world, nobody here seemed to be that friendly. Honestly, out of every place we went to the week we were in Aruba, this was the least friendly place I dealt with. If things go wrong and emotions get the best of you, maybe try to handle it more professionally, or at least apologize to the divers for your actions later on after things have calmed down. – via
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Excellent your guides, great scuba. This was my first time scuba diving but my boyfriend’s third. It was easy to learn and overall a lot to look at. We dove for about an hour, and that was probably plenty. My mouth was sore and dry. I thought that I was going to be sad that it was only an hour but it was the perfect amount.
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Genuinely fantastic dive centre. Very relaxed and calm environment, not to mention extremely welcoming. My wife and I did our SDI Open Water course here, and even though we arrived as strangers, by the end of the several days of diving we left with so many new friends. I really hope we will be back – via
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So disappointed in this company. We told them our ship would be docking a little later, and they told us they could see that and that it wouldn’t be a problem. I made sure to communicate this with Marc several times, and they assured me that because there were others from our ship that they would make sure to make it work. 30 minutes before our pick up they canceled, leaving us with no time to find anything else. Don’t trust these people. Very unprofessional. – via
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This dive operation is one of the best in the industry. We’ve been to many others. From the equipment they provide to the way they help beginner divers with skills while allowing the advanced divers the latitude to enjoy some great diving. Some may say that they don’t set up diver’s equipment but as an experienced diver, it is important to me to set up my own equipment and performing my own pre-dive checklist with my buddy. Steve, Marjolein, Alonzo, Jay and Justin were extremely attentive to our needs and always tried to have us diving a different site every day of our 7 days of diving. We will be coming back to this operation for our next Aruba trip. They have become our family in Aruba. – via
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We wanted to do diving on the south part of island so chose Pure Diving. It’s a lovely dock area with great dive masters that took us to great reefs. Everyone does their own gear set up and take down. Rinse tank is small. We took gear back to hotel to rinse ourselves. Refreshments are served in between dives. Dive masters are knowledgeable and ready to help. It’s a large, covered boat that holds up to 12. No bathroom on board. – via
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