Diving Holidays and Worldwide Dive Destinations

Fiji - West and South

Fiji’s extraordinary reef system provides a perfect design for awesome diving and is a drawcard for dive enthusiasts around the world. Fiji has been a firm favourite over the years for so many reasons. If you haven’t been, we can’t begin to tell you what you’re missing. If you’ve already been, you know as well as we do why you’re going back.

We have on offer two of the best dive and holiday destinations for you to choose from—the Yasawa Islands and Beqa Resort. Be warned, you may never want to leave.

Fiji - North and East

Fiji boasts the second largest reef system in the world. It is a diver’s wonderland of gorgeous coral, tropical fish, warm waters, and great visibility.

Read the trip report for our most recent visit.

Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea (PNG) is a vibrant and adventurous destination. With over 1000 different tribes and 700 languages, it is a land of diversity and richness of culture. The rainforest drenched mountains and 600 islands provide an exotic backdrop for some of the world’s finest diving.

PNG has always been a hot dive destination for those in the know, and it just keeps getting hotter. For years Walindi has been a favoured haunt of underwater photographers, who in the early days booked it out years in advance.

Solomon Islands

The Solomon Islands, with its small tourists numbers, means you’ll have diving unspoilt by the masses. It will feel like you’re diving in virgin waters never dived before (and you may well be)—it is truly the last dive frontier. This is diving like you’ve only dreamed about, set in a natural paradise.

The Solomons are an archipelago of 990 volcanic islands and coral atolls, covering 1000 miles of the Pacific. They are surrounded by nutrient rich water that is teeming with an abundance of marine life, big and small. Pinnacles, walls, reefs, bommies, caverns, and coral gardens showcase nature at its finest. Being a hotseat of WWII activity, it also has more than its fair share of wrecks to explore.

Vanuatu

Vanuatu is home to the famous SS President Coolidge. The wreck of wrecks—the big one that everyone wants to dive. It is the largest accessible wreck in the world, and is without doubt a true diving legend. People with thousands of dives under their belt still talk about this being their best.

The 200m long SS President Coolidge is still virtually intact. She lies in depths of 20m to 70m, although the dive operators adhere to an agreed maximum dive depth of 60m. All dives are guided, and you will be taken to spots suited to your level of experience. All dives are decompression dives. Visibility is usually an amazing 15-25m and up to 40m. You will need numerous dives to the ship to explore her fully.

Micronesia

Truk Lagoon (Chuuk) is a very special place that has taken a cruel and ugly part of its history and turned it into something beautiful. During WWII Truk Lagoon was a centre of wartime activity. The heritage it left, buried under the sea, has become a haven for coral and fish life. It is a maze of military wrecks waiting to be explored.

Yap is an island full of history and tradition, and the islanders are determined that their culture will not be lost to westernisation. Their traditional villages and lifestyle round out a perfect dive destination. One of their most fascinating traditions is the use of stone money, representing prestige and wealth, which is still traded by the islanders today.

Palau is breathtaking above and below water. An archipelago of more than 300 islands, it lies in the southwest of Micronesia. The Rock Islands are their special jewel, a group of lush green limestone outcrops appearing to float on the sparkling blue water. Palau is a place of natural beauty, with jungle clad mountains, waterfalls, atolls, marine lakes, and a huge barrier reef.

Tonga

Captain Cook dubbed Tonga ‘the friendly isles’ and the name has stuck for good reason. The warmth and friendliness of the locals will leave you with memories for a lifetime. Tonga is the only South Pacific country never to have been colonised, giving it a true island feeling.

Tonga was the first Pacific Island nation to set up marine parks and sanctuaries and is reliant for survival on the sustainable management of its natural environment. Marine life has thrived under Tonga’s protection, offering a diver’s wonderland. Diving is varied, ranging from shipwrecks to limestone caves, and from walls to coral reefs. But perhaps the best feature is just how much you can see – with exceptional water clarity and visibility of at least 30-40 metres.

Australia

The Great Australian Dive Tour takes you on a 16 day holiday to all the hot dive spots down the eastern coast of Australia from Brisbane to Cairns, or vice versa. Visit famous dive sites such as the Great Barrier Reef, the wreck of the SS Yongala, and the Taka 2 and Oceania liveaboards.

The Great Barrier Reef is the largest reef in the world measuring 2011km in length and 72km across at its widest point. It is the world’s largest marine protected area being approximately 348,700 sq km in area. The colossal size of the reef allows for a spectacular range of tropical diving, with over 1500 species of fish to be seen.