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PADI dive center · Palm Beach, Aruba

Wrecks and reefs, by boat.

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.

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0 m · ON DECK

Your ride to the reef.

A customized Gulf Craft Touring 36, set up for divers: room to gear up, tanks racked and ready.

Deck of the boat with tanks lined up, moored at the pier
The Gulf Craft Touring 36 with divers on board
On-board counter with drinking water and the marine restroom
  • ENGINES Twin 250 HP Yamaha outboards
  • DECK Sunroof and a spacious floor plan to set up gear
  • COMFORT Two showers and an electric marine restroom
  • GEAR Rinse compartment for gear and cameras, plus dry storage
  • SAFETY Full complement of required safety equipment
  • AIR Our own tank filling station and equipment
A diver splashing into turquoise water from the boat
2 m · GIANT STRIDE

Two boats a day.

8:30MON–SAT · MORNING

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.

1:30AFTERNOON

Introduction, refresher or 1-tank dive. Check in at the shop at 1:30, back around 4:00. Refreshers run Monday to Friday.

SundayCLOSED

Book ahead for the rest of the week.

  • An instructor always dives with the group.
  • Regular air only (no nitrox).
  • Bring your certification card, or email it before you come.
  • No fixed site schedule: we pick the sites each day based on ocean and weather conditions.
  • Pay at the shop before the dive.
A diver descending through a cloud of bubbles under the boat
Refresher course in calm, clear water by the pier
6 m · DESCENT

Never dived? Start here.

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.

Discovery Scuba

First dive, with the basics and a guided dive at Pedernales. Mon–Fri, 1:30 pm, back around 4 pm. All gear included.

$110

Refresher

Been 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.

$110

Open Water

PADI certification, e-learning included.

$550
Before your first dive
  • 10 years or older
  • Average swimming ability
  • PADI medical form, signed (download)
8 – 27 m · WHERE WE DIVE

Every site, at its real depth.

Keep 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.

Hand-painted mural of Aruba's dive map at Palm Beach Divers
Our hand-painted map of the island's dive spots.
8 m25 FT

Pedernales

Wreck · beginner-friendly

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

Historic photo of the Pedernales tanker
The Pedernales wreck underwater
12 m40 FT

Arashi Reef

Reef · all levels

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

Arashi Reef
Marine life at Arashi Reef
A sea turtle swimming over the reef

Turtles at Arashi.
Lionfish everywhere.

17 m55 FT

Antilla Wreck

Wreck · swim-throughs

A German freighter scuttled in 1940, with cargo holds you can swim through.

Historic photo of the Antilla freighter
The Antilla wreck underwater
18 m60 FT

Star Gerren

Wreck

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

The Star Gerren wreck
Diver at the Star Gerren
Four divers posing over a coral-covered wreck

Small groups.
Plenty of room on every wreck.

21 m70 FT

Blue Reef & Debbie II

Reef + wreck

Lobsters, eels and stingrays on the bottom reef, plus a 120 ft fuel barge sunk in 1992.

The Debbie II barge
Diving the Debbie II
27 m90 FT

Airplanes

Wreck · our deepest site

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

Sunken airplane off Aruba
Diver near the sunken airplane

Also in the rotation: Harbor Reef. And on the map: Tres Trapi (reached down a carved rock staircase), Sponge Reef, Tire Reef and Skalaheim.

Divers inside a wreck, light coming through the hull

27 meters down.
Time to check your air.

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Prices, taxes included.

Bring your own gear or rent ours: switch to see both.

Boat dives

1-tank dive (PM)$75
2-tank dive (AM)$105
4-tank package$210
6-tank package$280
8-tank package$350
10-tank package$420
Every extra 2-tank dive$80
Introduction / refresher dive$110

PADI courses

Refresher$110
Referral$375
Open Water (incl. e-learning)$550
Advanced$400
Rescue$500
SpecialtiesUpon request

Rental & boat

Full equipment$40
BCD$15
Regulator$15
Wetsuit$10
Mask / fins$10
Boat passenger$15
Snorkel passenger$25

All prices in US dollars, taxes included.

SAFETY STOP · TIME TO SURFACE

Save your spot on the boat.

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.

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