Explore Aruba’s Wreck & Reef Dive Sites

Type: Wreck Dive
Depth: 45 feet (14 meters)

Overview: Aruba's most famous and massive shipwreck. A 400-foot German freighter scuttled off the northwest coast, surrounded by vibrant tube sponges, coral formations, and abundant marine life. Excellent for both daytime and night dives.

Type: Wreck Dive
Depth: 60 feet (18 meters)

Overview: A deliberately sunk 120-foot fuel barge sitting on a sandy bottom next to Blue Reef. The wheelhouse and deck fixtures are heavily encrusted with marine growth, providing shelter for schooling fish, rays, and lobsters.

Type: Wreck Dive
Depth: 60 feet (18 meters)

Overview: A Colombian freighter wreck featuring broken-open sections that create spacious, light-filled swim-throughs. Frequently patrolled by yellowtail snapper and barracuda.

Type: Wreck Dive
Depth: 27 feet (8 meters)

Overview: A beginner-friendly World War II oil tanker torpedoed by a submarine. Features large, scattered structural pieces including cabins, washbasins, and pipeline systems intermingled with coral formations.

Type: Wreck Dive / Airplane Wreck
Depth: 85 feet (26 meters)

Overview: An intact former commercial airliner sitting upright with its nose pointing upward. Stripped of doors and seats, it offers an accessible and unique artificial reef experience for intermediate divers.

Type: Wreck Dive / Airplane Wreck
Depth: 85 feet (26 meters)

Overview: A sunken DC-3 aircraft resting near Sonesta Island surrounded by a sandy bottom and beautiful brain coral formations, attracting a wide variety of reef fish and marine life.

Type: Reef Dive
Depth: 15 to 130 feet (4 to 40 meters)

Overview: A dramatic deep-water drop-off and sloped reef system featuring massive coral formations and rich pelagic activity.

Type: Reef Dive
Depth: 15 to 110 feet (4 to 34 meters)

Overview: A pristine sloping reef characterized by diverse hard corals, sea fans, and frequent sightings of rays and cruising coastal fish.

Type: Reef and Wreck Dive
Depth: 45 feet max / slope down to 110 feet

Overview: One of Aruba's premier dive spots. Features a shallow mangrove channel opening up to a breathtaking drop-off filled with staghorn coral, deep-water gorgonians, sponges, octopuses, and seahorses.

Type: Reef Dive
Depth: 60 feet (18 meters)

Overview: A vibrant southern reef slope rich in sheet and leaf corals, serving as a safe haven for snapper, groupers, grunts, and angelfish.

Type: Reef Dive
Depth: 15 to 100 feet (4 to 30 meters)

Overview: Features underwater coves and formations made of sheet and leaf coral where moray eels, coral crabs, and schools of snapper play.

Type: Reef Dive
Depth: 15 to 60 feet (4 to 18 meters)

Overview: A calm, sandy-bottom reef environment near Sonesta Island adorned with healthy brain corals and comfortable depths for relaxed exploration.

Type: Reef Dive
Depth: 15 to 80 feet (4 to 24 meters)

Overview: A sweeping sandy-bottom reef featuring an abundance of brain corals and massive sea fans that sway rhythmically with the ocean current.

Type: Reef Dive
Depth: 15 to 60 feet (4 to 18 meters)

Overview: A fascinating drop-off site characterized by gigantic boulders of brain and star coral, massive leaf and sheet coral formations, and great underwater photography opportunities.

Type: Reef Dive
Depth: 15 to 60 feet (4 to 18 meters)

Overview: Beautiful coral pinnacles and structures rising from the seabed, teeming with colorful reef fish, sponges, and vibrant marine life.