4 years ago when I started reading travel forums, I was shocked to read (especially on Trip Advisor) posts that read "there is nothing in the West, so there is no reason to travel past Blue Bay". OMG! Andreas and I moved to Westpunt the same year and started to mention that there is good reason, the beaches, dive sites, hiking, biking, and the National Parks. For a while the other OE was heavily promoted as the best dive op and could take divers "all the way" to Mushroom Forest. MF is still the most talked about dive site. With Sunset Divers (now gone), Habitat (under any name) and Ocean Encounters WEST, divers have had the option of dozens of additional dives - many accessible only by boat. We personally think the shore diving is superb and often the dive shops do not have the personnel to take out divers any further than their house reef. I think the existence of The Dive Bus, Curious 2 Dive, Easy Divers and Trunk Divers allow divers to experience some of the dive sites they might not know about (Playa Hulu), know how to get to (Playa Largu) or feel uncomfortable being without a dive master (Sint Anna Bay or Superior Producer). Many of these operations are fairly new. Some, like Neils of Dive Charter Curacao, don't self promote and then it would be up to Sunshine, Gtoph etc. to tell the board that he has a rib boat, takes out groups up to 8 divers (this west end end girl can highly recommend the East Coast dives) either for a 2 tank dive or to charter for a week and go to sites all around Curacao. Diving is fantastic here and while every company excels at what they do and each has very loyal and returning clientèle, it's been my feeling that the dive ops (those with boats, those with busses and those with vans) could work together more to improve the dive community in general. Outlets such as Scubaboard does this to some extent with not only visiting divers but dive masters, OP managers, photographers (still miss you Stan) and, even silly pizza makers chiming in on occasions. If you haven't been to Curacao yet, this is a dive destination where you can dive the dive of your choice - boat, shore, self guided or with a professional. Whaddaya waiting for?