World-class beaches, restaurants, casinos and shopping all draw the cosmopolitan crowd to the Caribbean island of Aruba. The main attraction in this part of the Caribbean is all the divable shipwrecks that are just off the island’s beaches. This island is a regular stop for cruise ships and consistent flights by U.S. carriers allow for easy air travel. As long as you have your fins, mask and snorkel with you, you can easily escape the crowds of Oranjestad Aruba.
Back in 1940, to prevent capture by Dutch troops, a German captain scuttled his ship, the Antilla, in this area and it is now a premier wreck dive site. This ship is covered i cup corals and tube sponges as she rests o her side in sixty feet of water. Blue tangs, French grunts and silversides call this ship home and are seen an abundance. Just off the beach near Hadicurari in a mere forty feet of water lies a two hundred foot tanker named the Star Gerren. To add to Aruba’s impressive array of artificial reefs, the Star Gerren was sunk intentionally four years ago. Today it is colonized by yellowtail snapper and silversides. Another wreck waiting for your enjoyment is the Jane Sea which is upright at a depth of ninety feet. It is a two hundred and fifty foot freighter where fish life abounds and with the ship’s cavity gutted, it offers a long, easy swim.
Aruba weather almost never drops below seventy-five degrees during winter and summer season the mercury is never seen about eighty-five degrees. It is a dry and sunny location with trade winds that will always keep you comfortable. The water visibility ranges between fifty to one hundred feet which is paradise to any diver.