Old Buoy

Also known as: Boya Vieja

One of the oldest dive sites off La Parguera, a gently sloping section of the wall with coral trenches and canyons. It is named after a former university buoy whose anchor block and line remains are still there.

Old Buoy is a gentler alternative to the sheer walls, with a sloping bottom cut by coral trenches and canyons that divers can swim through. The site was once marked by a buoy of the University of Puerto Rico's marine sciences department; the buoy is gone, but a large concrete anchor block and the remains of the mooring line are still on the bottom west of the usual drop point. Spiny and Spanish lobsters are common in the reef. Bar jacks, barracuda and mackerel pass by, and large green moray eels, big snappers and occasional eagle rays are reported. PRDayTrips dived it as a shallower second dive after the deep wall.