Crashboat... diving in Aguadilla Puerto Rico

This morning found us up in Aguadilla... to Puerto Rico Technical Dive Center. PRTDC is a great shop... for advanced professional training, technical diving support and also for recreational diving. Tony and Brenda are the owners and will provide you with high quality enjoyable and safe training that will insure you become a life long diver.

They mostly dive the inshore reefs and one of the places they train is Crashboat in Aguadilla. Here is a youtube video about the site. Crashboat is about 30 minutes north of the Lemontree up Carr 2. Call ahead to PRTDC for tanks if you are a certified diver.

I made this photograph of one of the sunken girders. The site is a little like a wreck but shallow in most parts.

Diving at Crashboat

When people think of diving on the west coast they think about Desecheo Island off the coast of Puerto Rico. True, Desecheo is an outstanding destination, but is that all? If you are interested in a good, fun, and easy shore dive then consider Crashboat. Crashboat is located in Aguadilla about 20 minutes north of Rincon. You can rent gear, tanks and weights at either Taino Divers in Rincon or at PR Technical Dive Center in Aguadilla. The site consists of platforms, one of which is sunken. The bottom is sandy and gradually slopes down to the platforms at 30 feet on the seaward side. Now there are deeper spots at Crashboat but I recommend a guide for these. Occasionally the water is too rough for an easy entry and the visibility may fall considerably. But the site has a ton of soft coral encrusting the rusting pilings and metal wreckage and lots and lots of fish. The photograph above was taken from inside a giant fish ball... converted to black and white and toned.