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              Puerto Rico's Electrifying 'Parguera Wall'! Imagine yourself lazily following your dive leader about 50fsw along a gorgeous reef. You discover schools of juveniles grazing in the crevices of mini sea mounts. You feel the warn sun shining down on you. You look towards the surface and see the flat sea above. You are breathing continuously, comfortably and controlled. Your console is slung over your arm. Your trim and buoyancy are perfect. You are at peace with the Universe...
              Suddenly, you see your dive leader and group ahead descend out of sight! You follow them. There is a little current. You want to breath a little harder...but you control that urge. Then...just past a giant sea fan you look down. Clear dark blue water. There is no bottom anymore...just endless blue space. Your buddy fins over to your side and links arms with you. You see your group about 30fsw lower and moving with the current. You relax and just "sky dive" down to join them. You spot a shark! A ray sails by... Morays peer out at you with a toothy grin. Gazillions of colorful fish...from infant, to tiny-tot, to small, to medium, to large, to extra large, to "super-size me!" You begin to feel at-one within your surrounding splendor...
              Fish everywhere! Swimming individually, in pairs, and in schools along the wall. Myriads of brilliantly colored corals! Gorgonians! Black Coral! You and your buddy fin out a little from the wall and get an overview. The harmony and variety of life along the wall...the beautiful, Natural order. A peaceful Universe. You and your buddy are sharing Puerto Rico's "Parguera Wall"... Puerto Rico's unsurpassed...unparalleled underwater adventure...

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Electrifying Puerto Rico !

Puerto Rico Map Puerto Rico is about a 3–hour jet ride away from Miami, and is about 100 miles long and 35 miles wide. Geography ranges from lush tropical rain forest in the north to rare tropical dry forest in the south, from the Atlantic to the Caribbean. San Juan and several other cities bustle with restaurants, bars, shopping malls and casinos. Loaded with history, there are many, many land–based sights to visit.

Puerto Rico Parguera Diving!—Parguera Divers, located in the southwest, has over 25 dive sites from Guanica to La Parguera. Approximately 6–7 miles offshore the famous La Parguera Wall runs for over 20 miles. The Wall drops from 55–65 ft. to over 1500 feet. Visibility ranges from 60 to 150 ft. Average Water temperature is about 85 F in the summer, and between 78 F to 80 F in winter. We do not experience strong currents, and the underwater surge is very mild or non-existent. Parguera Divers also features divesites closer to shore used for checkout dives, resort courses & night dives. The reefs are very well kept, healthy, abundant and alive. Diving in La Parguera offers a great variety of marine life, deep-water gorgonians and rare black coral.

Weather & Water—Year round air temperature averages—65–85 deg.F. October and November are the wettest months bringing frequent rainstorms. Water temperature ranges between 77 deg.F.–84 deg.F. Visibility runs between 80 to 100 feet.

Price Validity—All Package Prices are subject to change without notice, unless Paid-In-Full. Changes may be required in the event of increases or decreases in the cost of services imposed by hotels, dive operators, air carriers (if included in package), or other contractors. Government taxes can change at any time.

Dive Sites

NOTE: The following are only a few of the many incredible sites visited on a regular basis by Parguera Divers, varying in depth from 55–130fsw along the Parguera Wall, about 7 miles from shore, which drops to 1500fsw and is over 20 miles in length. There are many shallower sites on the way out to the wall.

  • Fallen Rock—Expect the unexpected! The wall virtually drops off, leading to a huge boulder with two huge trenches around it, filled with tropical fish such as grunts, durgeons, parrot and angelfish. Sharks, rays and morays are frequently encountered. This site has been featured by Rodale's Scuba Diving Magazine and Scuba Times. Puerto Rico Slug
  • Old Buoy—The oldest dive site in La Parguera used to be marked by a buoy of the University of Puerto Rico Marine Sciences Department. After 20 years the buoy is gone, but a huge concrete anchor block reminds us we are not the first to gaze at the ancient coral trenches that drop off the edge of the wall at 65fsw, leading down a gentle drop off.
  • Efra's Wall—The abundance of rare black coral, forests of deep water gorgonians and schools of black durgeons make this site one of our favorites. As we anchor and start our dive we can see the schools of fish ready to greet us. The Wall starts at 60fsw and drops into a sheer precipice of deep blue water.
  • Chimney—The Wall offers fantastic dives, but this non-wall dive cannot be disregarded. A small drop off leads up to a stone and coral formation in the unmistakable shape of a chimney. The Chimney is at 80fsw and divers can swim right through. Barracudas are usually circling that area and greet divers as they swim along. Simply a spectacular dive which should not be missed.
  • 1990—Huge Coral Mounts nested in a sandy area. Lots of marine life! The sandy bottom invites stingrays to come along. A huge hogfish calls this dive site his home. Puerto Rico Flamingo
  • Black Wall—This site is named for the abundance of rare, huge black coral gardens, black gorgonians and schools of black durgeons that surround you during the whole dive. A sheer wall begins at 55fsw and drops to 200fsw, providing a blue water experience full of marine life and encrusted coral. This dive site has been featured in Rodale's, Scuba Times, PADI Underwater Journal, Tauchen, and TV/radio documentaries and programs.
  • The Aquarium—Most people just observe an aquarium, but here you can swim in it and explore. Beautiful overhangs are home to schooling grunts. At the sandy bottom you can find conch shells, sand dollars and a family of yellowhead jawfish. Watch out—the fish will follow you the entire dive!

Some of the many other dive sites include—

  • The Star
  • The Pinnacles— Rodale's named it "Disney"
  • Hole in theWall
  • Grunts Alley
  • Hog Heaven
  • Venice
  • Cylinders
  • Manhattan
  • The Playground
  • Trenches
  • 2–4–U
  • The Forest
  • The Canyons

Dive Adventures

  • Hotel Parador Posada Porlamar and Parguera Divers

Hotel Parador Posada Porlamar and Parguera Divers—$714(incl. 7% tax) Adventure per person, double occupancy includes: 7-Nights Accommodations (Standard Room) - daily American breakfast - 2 dinners at La Pared Restaurant - 6 days of diving (2–tank boat trips) - snacks and drinks onboard - divemaster - weights/tanks/air/belt.

Hotel Parador Posada
Porlamar and Parguera Dive Boat Hotel Parador Posada Porlamar—is located in La Parguera, a small fishing village on the southwest coast of Puerto Rico. On the weekends, the bars are open, and youths throng the main street listening to music and people watching. The weekends are very quiet with fewer bars and restaurants remaining open. One of the highlight "things to do" is to enjoy an evening cruise over the rare bioluminescent bay, one of seven such permanently bioluminescent bays in the world. La Parguera is approximately 2 hours from San Juan and 45 minutes from both Mayaguez and Ponce, where shopping malls and casinos are available. Hotel Parador Posada Porlamar is a small, cozy, family–run hotel with 40 rooms—all with A/C, phone and TV. And a pool for relaxing during the day!

Puerto Rico Parguera Divers Parguera Divers—is located on the premises of the Hotel Parador Posada Porlamar. We offer daily 2–tank dive trips to the Wall, as well as scheduled night dives and courses from Open Water I to Dive Master, including Specialty Courses. Parguera Divers provides overnight storage for your dive gear and a freshwater rinsing bucket for your convenience.

Owners & Operators—Parguera Divers is operated by its owners, Captain Angel C. Rovira and his wife Roberta Santos. Angel has been exploring the wall at La Parguera since1992, providing you with a special opportunity to experience some of the best diving in Puerto Rico. Parguera Divers has been diving the wall since 1985, and continues to explore new dive sites in order to provide visitors the most exhilarating underwater experience.

Angel is a highly trained diving professional, with a Bachelor of Sciences in Recreational Diving Management from Barry University in Florida, the only such college degree in the United States. Aside from a minor in Business Administration, Angel has acquired numerous credentials, including—

  • U.S. Coast Guard Certified Captain,
  • PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer,
  • PADI Emergency First Response Instructor,
  • PADI Specialty Instructor,
  • NAUI Instructor, and
  • PSI Visual Inspector

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