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The Car Wrecks at Vaersenbaai is located east of the the house reef at Kokomo Beach Curacao. Today, the wreckage lies on a sandy patches surrounded by stunning hard coral formations. Unfortunately, tragedy struck Elvin’s Plane Wreck in 2008 when Tropical Storm Omar decided to turn and hit Curaçao squarely from the South West causing this plane wreck to be ripped off the seafloor and turned into aluminum debris scattering the plane into multiple pieces.
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This Fokker Fairchild 27 once flew regularly for Antillean Airlines as an island hopper between the ABC Islands, Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao, and afterward came to rest at the premises of Curacao’s International Airport Hato. In 2006 the Curaçao Fire Department donated a Fokker Fairchild 27 to All West Apartments & Diving and Go West Diving to create a new diving attraction at the west end of the island. Together, they formed the original dive shop at Playa Kalki, known then as All West Watersports. Please contact us for more details how you can dive this amazing Curaçao dive site.Įlvin’s Plane Wreck is a wonderful site that commemorates Elvin, an incredibly passionate underwater enthusiast and cousin to the owner of GO WEST Diving. Numerous colorful species inhabit the wreck and if you are lucky, you will even encounter seahorses.ĭue to the location of the Saba Tugboat shipwreck, this dive is only accessible by boat.
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The drop-off is only a few meters from the wreck where you will find an incredible array of sponges, corals plus the usual suspects like morays, doctor’s fish, glass fish and parrot fish.ĭive Tip: Schedule a boat dive to the Saba Tugboat with Ocean Encounters and dive along the reef wall to reach the wreck between 5 and 12 meters (15-40 feet). Blue Chromis, Rock Beauties and other fish have made the Saba their new home. The wheel house is gone and the deck is deteriorating, but it provides reef structure and home for a wide variety of marine life. This dive site is interesting for both divers and snorkelers since the wreck of the Saba Tugboat is situated at a depth of only 12 meters (40 feet) and is fully covered with vegetation. The Saba Tugboat is located, between Cornelius Bay and Sandy’s Plateau, just outside the inlet to ‘De Zoutpannen’, otherwise known as the salt pans or salt flats of Jan Thiel.