Pedernales
Wreck · beginner-friendlyAn oil tanker torpedoed in 1942. Its cabins, basins and pipework now lie among the coral, shallow enough for first dives.


PADI dive center · Palm Beach, Aruba
Small groups, our own boat and equipment, and dive sites a short ride from Palm Beach. For certified divers and for your very first breath underwater.
A customized Gulf Craft Touring 36, set up for divers: room to gear up, tanks racked and ready.




2-tank dive, usually one wreck and one reef. Check in at 8:30, the boat leaves at 9:00 and we're back around 12:15.
Introduction, refresher or 1-tank dive. Check in at the shop at 1:30, back around 4:00. Refreshers run Monday to Friday.
Book ahead for the rest of the week.


Discovery Scuba is your first underwater experience: the basics first, then a guided dive at the Pedernales wreck. Already certified but out of practice? Take a refresher before you head out.
First dive, with the basics and a guided dive at Pedernales. Mon–Fri, 1:30 pm, back around 4 pm. All gear included.
$110Been a while? Mon–Fri, 1:30 pm. Basics and gear at the shop, skills in shallow water by the boat, then a fun dive at Pedernales. All gear included. After it you're ready for the morning 2-tank dives.
$110PADI certification, e-learning included.
$550Keep scrolling and you'll go down with us: World War II wrecks, two sunken planes and reefs with turtles. The depth on the left is where each one sits.

An oil tanker torpedoed in 1942. Its cabins, basins and pipework now lie among the coral, shallow enough for first dives.


A reef for beginners and experienced divers alike, known for its turtles and the scattered remains of a plane.


Turtles at Arashi.
Lionfish everywhere.
A German freighter scuttled in 1940, with cargo holds you can swim through.


A cargo ship sunk in 2000. It rests almost upside down, with its propeller at the shallowest point.


Small groups.
Plenty of room on every wreck.
Lobsters, eels and stingrays on the bottom reef, plus a 120 ft fuel barge sunk in 1992.


Two aircraft sunk on purpose off a sloping reef: a Convair 340 and an Air Aruba YS-11 you can enter.


Also in the rotation: Harbor Reef. And on the map: Tres Trapi (reached down a carved rock staircase), Sponge Reef, Tire Reef and Skalaheim.
27 meters down.
Time to check your air.
Bring your own gear or rent ours: switch to see both.
All prices in US dollars, taxes included.
Our shop is between the Holiday Inn and the Marriott Surf Club, next to the Jolly Pirates. The boat is right there at the Hadicurari pier. Tell us how many divers you are, everyone's full name, and whether you'll rent gear.