Aquarium
Also known as: The Aquarium
Dive siteFrom Puerto Rico Dive Sites, the sourced field guide
Aquarium
| Region | Guánica & La Parguera |
|---|---|
| Access | Boat dive |
| Site type | Wall, Reef |
| Depth (reported range) | 25–60 ft (8–18 m)Historical source only (1998) |
| Location | Pinned on location: a DRNA mooring buoy at the site.Location evidence: Official GIS[1] |
| Confidence | Moderate confidence |
| Last researched | 2026-10-17 |
Overview
Aquarium is a site off the Guánica–La Parguera coast, where DRNA lists a named mooring buoy near the shelf edge. A 2007 description from a Guánica resort dive center named The Aquarium among popular dives inshore of the shelf-edge wall, with three zones: sandy bottom, large coral heads (one estimated at over 1,000 years old) and soft and hard corals with sponges, plus a coral head about 10 ft tall and 12 ft across. It listed sergeant majors, blue chromis, goatfish, garden eels, crabs, cleaner shrimp, butterflyfish and several anemones. A 1998 guide gave depths of 25–60 ft.[1][2][3]
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Safety considerations
No site-specific hazards are recorded in our sources. That does not mean there are none.
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Depth reports by source
| Reported | Source | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 25–60 ft (8–18 m) | Colleen Ryan & Brian Savage / Complete Dive Guide Publications[3] | Historical (1998) |
Historical record
What a historical source reported at the time. Not verified as current — access, moorings, reef condition and names may have changed.
Listed as “The Aquarium” · 25–60 ft (8–18 m) · 1998[3]
- boat
- wall — small coral wall
- soft corals
Match to this modern site is ambiguous; see research notes.
See also
Straight-line distance only — not travel time, and not necessarily reached from the same departure point.
- Efra's Wall — 0.7 mi
- Two for You — 0.8 mi
- Cañones — 1.2 mi
- Old Buoy — 1.8 mi
- Star — 2.9 mi
- Coral Gardens — 3.0 mi
Sources & verification
Last researched: 2026-10-17 · Last independently verified: not yet field-verified · Confidence: Moderate confidence
- 1.Noreste Mooring Buoys3_WFL1 (layer pr_mooringbuoys2) - Boyas de Amarre — Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambientales (DRNA); published on ArcGIS Online by a DRNA Northeast Ecological Corridor reserve management officer (2021-06-10) · Government dataset · Tier 1: Primary / authoritative · accessed 2026-10-17
- 2.Dive Copamarina — Dive FAQ (archived page) — Copamarina Beach Resort & Spa (2007-10-17) · Dive operator · Tier 2: Specialist · historical
- 3.The Complete Diving Guide: The Caribbean, Volume 3 (Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands, British Virgin Islands) — Colleen Ryan & Brian Savage / Complete Dive Guide Publications (1998) · Historical guide · Tier 3: Corroborating · historical
Facts are summarised in our own words from the sources above; we do not reproduce operators’ or publishers’ descriptions. How confidence is assigned.