Our PADI Dive Centre - Let's Go Diving, with local and expatriate PADI Instructors and Dive Masters, offer diving on virgin WWII wreck sites and coral reefs that teem with sharks, pelagics and over 1,600 varieties of reef fish.  Shark Point is famous for it's cruising inhabitants, which gather there twice a week when the islands' butchery gives them their regular snack!  You can imagine the fish life.  Our latest find, a WWII fighter plane, is situated in a perfect 15 meters of water.  There is a story behind it as well.  Hear it from the old men of the nearby island....

Shore dive at the very front of the Resort. Slopes quite steeply to 34-36m sandy bottom of channel between Resort and Little Loun Island (across the channel). Occasional white and black tip reef sharks. There is a beautiful crop of elephant ears.  Current moderate to nil.  This can also be done as a snorkel.

A perfect wall dive, with healthy coral and abundant fish life.  This reef is located 20 minutes by boat from the Resort on the outer edge of the island chain towards Isabel Province.  Lighthouse wall is a serene reef, do not expect big currents or big fish (but there is always the chance). Top of the wall in 3 meters of water.  Depth to sand is rather endless.

Entry is by giant stride from a block inside the wharf between copra works and Telekom office.

Dive proceeds down a moderately steep slope scattered with wreckage. Many small schools of fish are spotted along the way to the barge, which is sitting on a sandy bottom. There are old US War material water tanks and various other items such as cups, helmets, really anything could turn up here!  Slopes down to 35 meters, after which divers slowly ascend to second big barge which is also smashed up.  Large amount of ammo coming out of low bottom of hill.  Further north of barge #1 is barge #2. Also from World War II, interesting swim down the length of barge.

This is a dive inside Yandina Harbour, done from the boat.  Divers drop down to 26m, where there is a World War II American Barge and various bits of war material.   Just beside it is the Am-track  (Amphibious tractor) that is mentioned in the Guadalcanal Book on the war (available from Reception). This is good!

The American’s dumping ground for trucks, for jeeps, and ammunition.  Diggers will be rewarded by finding fascinating relics in the muck.  Be forewarned, however, there is a stringent law against taking any World War II artifacts out the island, which we fully support. 

Very, very good dive! Heaps of all sizes of ammunition. Some still packed in squares, two small bulldozers and one caterpillar tractor. Trucks also here.  Dive to 32m.    There is a large hill near bottom that may be just an entire mountain of war material.  This dive goes on and on, with interesting war material to see every inch of the way.  Untouched.

This dive adventure is begun by a taking a really beautiful drive along the coast and through the coconut plantations.  Ferns and tropical flora  everywhere.  This shipwreck is located in 10-34 meters off the shore of one of the plantation worker’s villages.  This is a shore dive, where divers walk into a very clear wreck sitting upright. It was a coastal trader, with a single hold.   The ship was sunk over 15 years ago by Brian Bailey and Joe Entrikin.

The wreck is intact and is a super attraction for fish life. It offers a perfect exploration spot for metal enthusiasts!  Growth is young but beautiful. Inside the hold on the deck are about a million tiny fish. Under the wreck are rays lying in the sand, and be on the look out for very big spotted cod. At least ten big black lionfish inhabit the wreck and many, many more species of fish abound. Dive to 34m.  Current nil to moderate.  Able to shelter behind the wreck.

This plane wreck was discovered by Eric and Lindy Quinn.  They were told about it by a fisherman, and went to a village on Hae Island in Sunlight Channel to pick up a man who supposedly knew of the locale. The divers went to the northern end where they found the wreck in 15m water. It seems to consist of the wings, nose and front of the cockpit. There are no instruments or controls.

The story told by villagers is that it went down into the sea during the war and Navy divers brought it up from deeper down to get the body of the American pilot out.

We start the dive at the village, where some of the old men remember the wreck and the dramatic dive by Navy divers to recover the pilot’s body.  Hearing them recount their memories of the War is almost better than the dive!  The dive is then made to 15 meters, where plane enthusiasts have plenty to keep them occupied.  The rest of the plane is not visible, despite exploratory dives to 70m.  The bottom is nowhere in sight.

There is not much to mark this spot.  There is a submerged bommie starting 15 meters down, located between islands.  A favorite spot for schooling barracuda, trevally, unicorn fish, and many other types. Divers swim from a buoy line to the tip of the reef into the current to reach the big fish action. Current can be strong to nil, dive is obviously best in a strong current.  Divers wait on the edge of the reef and watch fish and sharks. Some divers report the most fish life they have ever seen is on this site!  Going down the sides of the bommie can be deceptively deep, so divers need to watch their computers.  Safety stops are on buoy line.   Large schools of Barracuda populate this bommie and allow divers to swim within their circles (if you are lucky enough to be that close to the schools!)  Depth from bommie to sand slope about 70 meters.

Another American legacy, this time with leftovers from the PT boat base right across the shore on Hai island.  This dive is a little murky, but yields fascinating finds.  PT boat moorings and even thick underwater cables to stop Japanese submarine attacks are still visible in this area.  This is a favorite dive for war buffs and reef buffs alike, and is a gradual slope to 45 meters, with finds every inch of the way.

Home to many, many fat and happy sharks who are well fed by the island’s abattoir twice a week.  Dives take place one to two days after offal throwing.  Sandy shelf to 30 meters, with most of the dive taking place in 10-15 meters, looking at the over-full sharks sleeping off their big meals!  On offer are nurse sharks, gray reefs, white and black tip reefs, and the occasional tiger shark!

Diving off the West point of this magnificent island, divers are thrilled to stumble across a bommie covered in healthy soft corals, 20 to 35 meters in depth.  After circumnavigating the bommie, the dive continues along the wall of the island until reaching its southern bay.  Commonly sighted here are Turtles, eagle rays.

This unique cavern dive starts off of the wall of the outer edge of the last Russell island before the ocean passage to the Western Province.  Only 15 meters, this dive is a journey into a mysterious cut in the island, shaded by tree growth high above.  Squirrelfish and spiny shrimp and other nocturnal types inhabit this enchanted road into the island interior, abruptly cut off by a huge boulder that blocked the cavern several hundred years ago!  After exiting the cavern, which is a snaky path along the sand from the sea, divers can continue to explore the wall of the outer island, where silvertip and hammerhead sharks have been spotted.

Excellent wall dive into current point, spectacular coral, fish life, and water clarity.  Always on the look out for pelagics.  Super dive on both sides of the island, and friendly village of people to visit.