Eagle Beach diving - enjoy distinctive feeling
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.) At the island's extreme northeast point, the California wreck has haunted the ocean floor for almost 100 years. While traveling from Liverpool to Central America, the wooden passenger ship ran aground, its merchandise, clothing, and furniture eventually washing ashore. Tour guides often circulate the romantic notion that the ship was the only vessel to have heard the Titanic's distress signal. It's a nice story but a bunch of malarkey. The ship that ignored the Titanic's flares was the Californian, which was torpedoed by a German submarine off the coast of Greece in 1915. About 14m (46 ft.) beneath the ocean's surface, Aruba's California is draped in orange and yellow sponges, plate coral, and anemones. Grouper, jewfish, lobster, and barracuda make frequent appearances, and a dense reef of staghorn and pillar corals forms a breakwater beyond the ship. Due to strong currents and choppy seas, this dive is strictly for advanced divers, and only when the water is unusually calm. At Arashi Reef, around the island's northern tip from the California, pieces of a Lockheed Lodestar litter the silty bottom of tranquil Arashi Bay. The wings, cockpit, and front half of the fuselage sit upright in a frozen take-off position. Maybe the neighborhood angelfish, parrotfish, sergeant majors, yellowtail snappers, caesar grunts, gray chromis, and blue tangs are contemplating how to reassemble all the pieces. Just south of the plane parts, brain coral, star coral, and sea rods dot the strip before dropping off to a ledge painted with sea fans and multicolored encrusting sponges. The plane's depth of 11 to 12m (36-39 ft.) is ideal for novice divers and snorkelers. 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.
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