Shefa Province

Vanuatu

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.

Natapao

Owens Reef

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

Turtles and dugongs!

Moso Island

Tranquillity Bommies is also known as Tranquility Shore Dive.

Tranquillity Bommies

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

A cargo carrying trading vessel well known around these islands over many years, this strong old ship was about to be relegated to the scrap heap as useless in 1985, when the Ports and Marine Department were persuaded that she would indeed be very useful as a new dive site and a home for the plants and animals of the sea along the Pango Coast in Mele Bay and this is where she reclines now.  The "Semle" moved down the reef during Cyclone Uma in 1987 and the stern area cabins and wheelhouse can be dived within 40 metres.  The clarity of the water at this site is a feature, i.e. if you can see the whole ship at a glance while descending the mooring line; you have over 60 metres viz.  As a build up towards the "President Coolidge" in Santo, the "Semle" is a valuable experience.




Owens Reef

Snorkeling and Scuba Diving at Owens Reef