Opposite Big La Laguna beach lays the dry dock dive site in 28m of seawater. The dry dock was designed for lifting small boats out of the water using its ballast tanks. The boats would sail in and the chambers were filled with air allowing the boat hulls to be cleaned and repaired. Once the job was done, the tanks were deflated slowly and the boats could sail away again.

This clever device was made with heavy structural steel beams and plywood construction but over time was getting worn out by the elements. La Laguna Beach Club sank this dock back in 1998 to make a reef habitat. On the way down to the bottom however, the dock overturned and landed upside down! What a bonus for us divers! In doing so it has created a brilliant habitat for many species of fish such that hide underneath and inside the now breeched hull. Soldier Fish, Harlequin Sweetlips, Red Snappers, Batfish, Lion Fish, Pygmy Sea Horses, Frog Fish, Porcupine Fish and Leaf Scorpion Fish can be found easily all over this site.

There is also a school of resident Yellowtail Barracuda that swim around the outside of the dry dock site and lucky divers may even get to see a Great Barracuda that stops in to see the dentist from time to time! (Give that fish plenty of room to maneuver…. It is over 6feet long and as thick as a palm tree!)