Our dives sites are world-class, we have some of the best and most well-preserved reefs in Puerto Rico. Spanning more than 20 miles, the wall system is our office and it provides an endless bounty of underwater experiences to be had. Come and see healthy sea fans, tube sponges, barrel corals, and canyons teeming with lobster, barracudas, puffer fish, and even sharks!
Below we’ll try to summarize some of our top sites into a few short sentences, but nothing compares to actually hopping into the water and seeing things for yourself.
Wall Dive Sites
– Blackwall: Named after the black coral that lines parts of this wall, here you’ll appreciate the sharp drop of the wall from 65ft at the shelf to 160ft at the first landing below. Here we observe lots of Barjacks, schooling Atlantic Spadefish, Great Barracuda, Caribbean Reef Sharks, and Flamingo Tongue Snails. Blackwall is a favorite of many of our guests and will give you a good taste of what we have to offer.
– Hole in The Wall: Although we no longer go into its namesake swim-through (it lies at 120ft !!), Hole in The Wall ranks high among our site requests whenever repeat customers hop aboard. The reason is simple, lots of sharks, a sheer drop-off, and sandy channels teeming with napping nurse sharks are a mainstay of this site.
– Efra’s Wall: Named after a legend among the diving community of Guanica and La Parguera, “Efra” was one of the OG’s of the diving scene back in the day. He discovered and named many of the dive sites that shops like ours visit to this day! Efra’s Wall is one of the further spots from our dock, but the extra 2 miles are worth it just for the views: large Canyons, inviting you to swim through them, stunning Rock Formations that hang precariously on the edge of the wall, and one particular spot where it seems as if all the Creole Wrasse of the town come to meet up!
– Old Buoy: A tamer alternative to sheer wall drop-offs, the sloping bottom of this site is crawling with Spiny Lobster and Spanish Lobster as well. Swim a bit further west of the drop point and you’ll see the few remnants of what this portion of wall gets its name from, the tattered remains of an old mooring line float lazily down below… it would almost seem spooky if it wasn’t also visited by schooling Barjack, Barracudas, and Mackerel.
– Canyons 1 & 2: A back-to-back pair of dive sites that really deserve their name. These sites put the scale of our Wall System into perspective… Carved by years and years of currents, deep canyons have formed the bottom composition of these two sites which span just shy of 2 miles combined. The larger examples of these canyons can even trick your eyes into thinking their shallow, but don’t be fooled, the tops of some of these canyons start at 60ft and go all the way down to 130ft and more! One of our Divemasters “Jill”, calls it “Estrella on steroids!” comparing it to one of our Ocean Reef sites!
Ocean Reef Sites
– Estrella: This sandy-bottomed ocean reef is best described as a large sandy highway flanked by many small roads, all separated by tall outcroppings of reef rock and soft corals. The bottom here is very flat as the variation from shallowest point (55ft) to deepest is just 5 feet! This site is very well balanced as it is very beginner-friendly in its layout while offering plenty to enjoy for more experienced divers too. Here you’ll likely see Nassau Grouper, Lionfish, Southern Stingrays, Nurse Sharks and Yellow-finned Goatfish.
– Chimney: Chiqui and Edwin’s favorite dive site, Chimney gets the name from a small cavern and swim-through that kind of resembles a fireplace and chimney waiting to be crawled into. With a bottom of 73ft this site is currently the deepest out of our Ocean Reef lineup, but it’s well worth it as long as safety rules are followed as this spot is full of life: Orange Encrusting Corals line the entrance to the cavern, Green Moray Eels patrol the reef under the leadership of Betsy the Eel (ask Chiqui about her!) and Caribbean King Crab scurry between the rocks at this fun, adventurous reef.
– Forest: With a sampling of basically all types of coral, sponges, and fish, Forest lives up to its name. Its bottom layout runs from 50ft at the shallowest to about 65ft at the deepest. It hosts many species of fish (too many to name here) but among key players we see Spotted Drumfish, Barracuda, Sargeant Major, and most importantly: Pancho the Pufferfish, the friendliest puffer you’ll ever meet! He stays around the group most of the time and will swim around saying “Hi” to some of the divers.
– Enrique Reef: One of our Inland Reefs, this site is mainly used for Scuba Courses, Discovery Scuba Dives, and snorkel excursion. With a very beginner-friendly, sloping bottom that takes you from just 7ft at the shallows to around 55ft at the deepest. This site is host to many varied sub-species of Sea Cucumber, it also has lots of Brittle Sea Stars, Spiny Lobster, Spotted Eagle Rays and if you’re really lucky, you might get visited by a big ol’ Manatee or a pod of Dolphins!