Dive Review of Dive Aruba in
Aruba

Other Aruba reports
Subscriber Content Preview
Active subscribers go here

Dive Aruba: "Great weather, warm water and varied sea life", Mar, 2020, by Mary Caton, AZ, US ( 1 report). Report 11457.
No photos available at this time
Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations	N/A	Food	N/A
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity	N/A
Dive Operation		Shore Diving	N/A
Snorkeling	N/A
Overall Rating
Value for $$
Beginners
Advanced
Comments	Booked my trip months in advance to get away from the cold weather in the NE where I have spent my winter for my job, not knowing I would be caught up in the COVID-19 drama. When I left the states there were few restrictions but everything went awry while I was in Aruba. The day after I arrived all incoming international flights were cancelled and my hotel closed after five of my planned seven nights. Fortunately the airline was accomodating my change in flights with no fees or issues. I had three days of diving planned and was able to do them all. It was two morning dives each of the three days. There was only one other diver during the first two days and I was solo with Clive on the last day. I enjoyed the freedom he gave to us as experienced divers. All of our dives were at least an hour long. Fortunately we were both quite experienced as I am not sure what would have happened if the other person was not very experienced. The first dive of each day was to a wreck and then the second dive was a drift dive along the reef. Day 1 was to airplane wrecks. There were two of them which we were to do on the first dive but there was a technical problem with my buddy's weights so we dove on one for the first dive and the other for the second dive along with some drift diving. Day 2 was a large boat wreck. It was not the Antilla as we did not go up the coast that way. It was a nice wreck with some swim throughs. Day 3 was a smaller boat wreck right outside of the harbor. Each dive has something unique about it. There was always something memorable from the dive like the turtle we saw on the second day. Saw barracuda, morays, shrimp, sergent majors, angel fish, box fish, lots of juvenile fish. Some good coral and some broken up coral. One location looked like it had been bull dozed with all of the broken coral. Medium sized sea fans. Nice sized sponges. I had to hunt for the shrimp and the crabs that I saw. I saw two sting rays each on separate dives. There were sandy areas with goat fish searching the sand and several what looked like jaw fish popping up from their holes. If you do not want to be baby sat and allowed to dive some good sites I would recommend Dive Aruba. I could not say what it would be like for less experienced divers.
Websites	Dive Aruba
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	Over 1000 dives
Where else diving	Southern US coasts, a few lakes in AZ, Mexico-Sea of Cortez and Yucatan coasts, Galapagos, Caribbean, and a lot in SE Asia
Closest Airport	AUA	Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny	Seas	calm
Water Temp	-°F / -°C	Wetsuit Thickness
Water Visibility	20-40 Ft/ 6-12 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	?
Enforced diving restrictions	[Unspecified]
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?
What I Saw
Sharks	None	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	1 or 2	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish	N/A
Large Pelagics	N/A
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter	N/A	Boat Facilities	N/A
Overall rating for UWP's	N/A	Shore Facilities	N/A
UW Photo Comments	We both had GoPro's but there was not a rinse tank on the boat. There is a rinse barrel on the dock.

Subscriber's Comments

By Ms Lynda Durfee in VA, US at Mar 22, 2020 16:57 EST

Glad you enjoyed Aruba diving. I've been using another dive shop (Fly n Dive), but you got to some good sites. Aruba doesn't have sharks (very rarely, maybe a nurse shark), but lots of schooling fish, more than I've seen on recent Cayman trips, Hope to arrive on Aruba May 9th if the airlines are running

Leave a comment (Subscribers only -- 200 words max)
Subscribers can comment here

Subscribers can post comments, ask the reviewer questions, as well as getting immediate and complete access to ALL 59 dive reviews of Aruba and all other dive destinations. Complete access to all issues and Chapbooks is also included.

Other dive reports on Dive Aruba

All Aruba Dive Reviews and Reports
Diving Guide to Aruba
Diving Reviews for All Dive Destinations

Want to assemble your own collection of Aruba reports in one place?
Use the Mini Chapbook Facility to create your personalized collection.

Note: The information here was reported by the author above, but has NOT been reviewed nor edited by Undercurrent prior to posting on our website. Please report any major problems by writing to us and referencing the report number above.

Undercurrent Home

Page computed and displayed in 0.5 seconds

Get more dive info like these and other important scuba updates sent monthly to your email. And a FREE Recent Issue of Undercurrent
Get a free monthly email and a sample issue!

Dive Review of Dive Aruba in Aruba

Dive Aruba: "Great weather, warm water and varied sea life", Mar, 2020,

Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):

Overall Rating

Reporter and Travel

Dive Conditions

Dive Policy

What I Saw

Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):

Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):

Subscriber's Comments

Dive Review of Dive Aruba in
Aruba