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Tucked away safely below the hurricane belt, Aruba is renowned for its beaches, nightlife and windsurfing, but divers know it for being a great dive destination as well. Unlike sister islands Bonaire and Curacao, the main focus of Aruba’s diving is not on its reefs, but on the shipwrecks and airplane wrecks. This does not mean however that the island lacks for reef dives! There are also several excellent reef and wall dives with abundant marine life, including stingrays, manta rays, moray eel, barracudas and nurse sharks. This combination of wrecks and reefs makes Aruba one of the most diverse dive destinations in the southern Caribbean.
Aruba is surrounded by a large, shallow sand plateau, meaning reefs need to be accessed by boat. Luckily the vast majority of the sites are only a short distance from Palm Beach, on the islands leeward western and southern coasts. Sites are marked with permanent mooring buoys that were established more than 10 years ago in order to protect the sites from damage from anchoring.
The Arashi Airplane, a twin-engine Beechcraft, is an excellent site for beginner divers and junior certified divers as it sits in only 33 feet not far from Arashi Beach. Though the planes propellers are no longer in tact, the cockpit has become the home for large numbers of schooling fish.
