La Cabana scuba diving - a reason for your vacation
Aruba offers enough coral reefs, marine life, and wreck diving to keep scuba divers and snorkelers busy. The coastal waters have an average temperature of 80°F (27°C), and visibility ranges from 18 to 30m (59-98 ft.). Snorkelers: Be forewarned that waves can be choppy at times in some locations. Divers should wear wet suits, especially for deeper dives (the water doesn't always feel like 80°F). The best snorkeling sites are around Malmok Beach and Boca Catalina, where the water is calm and shallow, and visible and kinetic marine life is plentiful. Dive sites stretch along the entire southern, leeward coast. For those who like toys, there's Power Snorkel, which uses motorized jet packs to pull you through the water. Don't expect to see many fish, though, as the noise and bubbles scare them away. Plus, your focus is on not crashing into other swimmers or not losing your swimsuit, rather than on the beautiful corals that you go buzzing past. Besides snorkeling, snuba is another non-scuba underwater option. Snuba divers breathe compressed air through a regulator on a hose attached to a tank floating at the surface. Though entertaining, interference with the line, guide, other snuba divers attached to the same tank, and unintended encounters with the razor-sharp reef make the experience at times frustrating and potentially painful. Just south of Arashi Reef, the 120m-long (394-ft.) Antilla wreck is the Caribbean's largest shipwreck. Once a German freighter, the ship was scuttled in 1941 when threatened by Allied forces. The wide compartments make diver penetration easy. It's one of the island's most popular dives, though, so you may have to wait in line to have your photo taken inside. Covered by giant tube sponges and coral formations, the 18m-deep (59-ft.) ghost ship is swarmed by angelfish, silversides, moray eels, and the occasional lobster. Octopus, sergeant majors, and puffers can also be spotted. Leaf and brain coral await you at Malmok Reef, just south of the Antilla. This 21m-deep (69-ft.) bottom reef's dozing lobsters and stingrays are popular with underwater paparazzi, and the giant purple, orange, and green barrel sponges pose for the camera as well. The Debbie II, a 36m (118-ft.) fuel barge sunk in 1992, attracts schools of fish, including barracudas.
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