Aruba?

Looking for suggestions on diving in Aruba, preferably small, photo friendly
dive boats.
Thanks

somebody left this mess on Mon, 5 Jan 2004 11:17:44 -0600 for The Way to clean
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>Looking for suggestions on diving in Aruba, preferably small, photo friendly
>dive boats.

Red Sail or Pelikan.

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de Valois <devalois@nailedandused.com> wrote in message news:<btcnn801789@drn.newsguy.com>...
> somebody left this mess on Mon, 5 Jan 2004 11:17:44 -0600 for The Way to clean
> up:
> >
> >Looking for suggestions on diving in Aruba, preferably small, photo friendly
> >dive boats.
>
> Red Sail or Pelikan.

I wouldn't consider Red Sail to be "small" boats. Their boats
are packed from what I was told. They cater alot to the
cruise boat industry day visitors.

Pelican's boats aren't small six packs either, but i was happy
with them. Most of their boats are 30-40' Newton Dive specials,
but they were never crowded. At most we had 10 people on the boat.
2 tanks dive with tanks/weights was $55. They will also pick you
up and drop you off from your hotel, which is nice since it saves
you $10 in cab fare.

I really liked Pelican and I would dive with them again.
their website is http://www.pelican-aruba.com/

Unique Watersports runs "six Pack" type boats if you
want a smaller boat (I think).
They are located water/beachfront at the Aruba Grand hotel.
http://www.visitaruba.com/uniquesports/

Dive Aruba might have smaller boats also. Not sure though.
http://www.divearuba.com/


Make sure to dive the Antilla while there. It's a 400+ foot
ship sunk in 50-60feet of water.

Michael Sutton wrote:

> I wouldn't consider Red Sail to be "small" boats. Their boats
> are packed from what I was told. They cater alot to the
> cruise boat industry day visitors.

I don't know if it is alike, but if it is similar to Curacao, then
there tend to be very little visitors on the weekends for some reason.
Saturdays, I've been told, are the day when holiday makers fly in and
out, and hence there is little folk who want to go in the water. Could
be a good day for a quiet photoshoot.

/Marcin

On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 07:39:40 -0800, Michael Sutton wrote:

> Unique Watersports runs "six Pack" type boats if you
> want a smaller boat (I think).
> They are located water/beachfront at the Aruba Grand hotel.
> http://www.visitaruba.com/uniquesports/

Their boats aren't quite that small. I think they had about a 12-14 diver
capacity though they were never full when I was there. There's a trip
report and photos on my website.

Jason

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