DE PALM SLOPE
Aruba
De Palm Slope is a dive site with beautiful coral and the wreck of a Cessna 414 off the coast of Palm Island on Aruba. In this turquoise blue water you'll find a colorful reef where moray eels hide and parrotfish forage for food. With some luck you might even surprise a sleeping nurse shark.
Particulars
De Palm Slope is located on Palm Island. This is a 'barrier island' off the coast of Aruba with a hotel, water park, bar and restaurant where tourist can visit the reef wit a Sea Trek helmet. De Palm Slope is a boat dive, but once on Palm Island you can access the site from shore. The boat trip from Aruba takes 10 minutes.
Warnings
There may be pleasure crafts in the vicinity of De Palm Slope.
DE PALM SLOPE Features
- Nicknames
- Palm Island
- Address
- Palm Island, Aruba, Nederlandse Antillen
- Parking
- At boat charter
- Distance
- 30 min.
- Suitable for
- All levels
- Permit
- N.v.t. / NA
- Access
- Free access
- Facilities
- Boat dive facilities
- Water
- Salt
- Kind of dive
- Boat dive, shore dive
- Current
- Limited
- Visibility
- 10 - 30 m.
- Average visibility
- 20 m.
- Depth
- 20 m.
- Bottom
- zand
- Life
- Anemone, moray, nurse shark, purple tube sponge , parrotfish
- Other recreation
- Boating, yachting