Vanuatu

Turtles and dugongs!

Moso Island

Tranquillity Bommies is also known as Tranquility Shore Dive.

Tranquillity Bommies

Drift Dive needs to be timed with tides. Very fast drift dive from 10 metres depth. Abundance of fish life.

Only Boat Access

Moso Drift Dive

Cool site, awesome clown fish that were amazing!  Swim throughs, good diving.

Take boat trip to Tranquility Island (Moso Island) & depart with them from there.

Owens Reef is also known as Owen's Reef.

Owens Reef

This dive site gets its name from the numerous Bat Fish that accompany you on the dive.

This is a flat reef on top 12 to 14 metres deep with walls that drop down to 50 metres. Divers need to be able to monitor and control their depth if they are diving the walls.

White tipped reef sharks can also been seen at times.

Dive trips are operated out of Hideaway island by boat.

Gotham City

An old ship's anchor embedded in the reef at 14m deep.



Anchor Reef

Awesome vis, no current, fantastic diving!

Hideaway Island is a small island just outside of Port Vila (In front of Mele).  An awesome place to stay with shore dives available or great sites accessible by a very short boat trip.

Hideaway Island

This extensive reef rises up in the middle of Mele Bay to around 6 metres from the surface.  We have more than one buoy here and generally like to dive where there is a vertical wall with a shallow reef top to finish off the dive under the boat.  Masses of interesting life at this spot – you will want to visit Mele Reef more than once.


In the middle of Mele Bay.

Mele Reef

With depths starting at 3 meters this is a great dive for all levels of divers from the newly certified to the very experienced.  Konanda Reef  has a large variety of hard coral and  fish life, some of the fish and coral life that you will come across on this dive are  Clown Fish, Bat Fish, Lion Fish, Moorish Idols, large Brain Corals, Stag Horn Corals, not to mention Moray Eels, Octopus and the much loved Nudibranch.


Konanda Reef is only a 15 minute boat trip on MV Cowrie from Nautilus base.

Konanda Reef

The darling of the keen wreck divers, "Konanda" sits flat on a sandy bottom at 26 metres, her derricks and rigging reaching up to within 10 metres of the surface.  Imagine, even the snorkels can enjoy themselves here on the nearby reef as well, "Konanda" is an Island Trader, 45 metres in length, which was damaged in a vicious cyclone and deliberately sunk in October 1987 for the delight of scuba divers.  She was carefully  prepared so that penetration of the wreck into the cabins and holds is safe and makes an ideal introduction to the fun of wreck diving.




Konanda

Most species of tropical fish are to be found on this site which features a sheer wall as well as the two "bombora" formations riddled with grottos.  The site alive with fish life all used to divers and not afraid of the camera flash – depth from 10 metres on top of the reef to 18 metres over the edge of the drop-off.


Dive Site is in the harbour of Efata (Port Vila)


Twin Bommies

Less than ten minutes from Nautilus lies the Qantas S26 Sandringham Flying Boar – now here is something different.  With a wingspan of over 30 metres this bulky giant, abandoned and dumped in the Harbour after a mishap which rendered it unfit for further service, was discovered in 1978, after quite a search, as a fascinating dive site.  To successfully explore the "Tasman", the diver needs to plan for 40 metres maximum depth.  The mooring line leads onto the tail plane and from there it is easy to swim above the wreck gaining an overall view of the plane and drop onto the nose, climb through the cockpit window and out the other side, and peer through the many windows.  The spaciousness of the interior is surprising and the vastness of the wings which kept this old bird airborne is astonishing – just a reminder of the days when air travel was a long slow process.  This particular craft was also a record breaker – she was the first plane to fly the Tasman Sea from Auckland to Sydney in less than eight hours!!


Near Iririki Island Resort

Tasman Flying Plane is also known as VH-EBW, Qantas S26 Sandringham, Sunderland Mk V.

Tranquillity Bommies

Snorkeling and Scuba Diving at Tranquillity Bommies