Windsock lies opposite the end of the runway, with the airport's wind sock as its landmark. The entry is one of the flattest on the island and there is almost never any current. Overhead an aircraft lands now and then; underwater you notice none of it.
Windsock is a beginner shore dive at Kralendijk: a flat entry opposite the runway, a reef top at five to seven metres and a gentle slope to twenty-five metres.
A shallow sand strip gives way to a reef top at five to seven metres with finger coral, brain coral and plenty of juvenile fish. The slope runs gently to twenty-five metres. Sergeant majors and parrotfish school over the top, and now and then a turtle grazing the seagrass.
In light wind and flat sea, year round. One of the few sites that stays diveable even in a moderate afternoon wind.
Little depth and little drama: this is a calm dive, not a wall. In an onshore wind the shallow strip stirs up. Ample but unpaved parking, no shade, no water, no toilet.
Decisions on diveability, technique and health belong with STINAPA, a dive school or a doctor. This page only describes the conditions.
The site sits under the airport's approach path; on the map the wind sock is the reference point. The shallow strip belongs to the same seagrass area that continues south past Te Amo and serves as a nursery for juvenile fish.
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