New Guinea
New Guinea is home to the world’s fourth largest surface area of coral reef ecosystem (40,000 km2 of reefs, seagrass beds, and mangroves in 250,000 km2 of seas). The underwater diversity is quite something. and It has 2500 species of fish, corals, and molluscs. There are so many dive sites that we don’t know about. Only recently our former divemaster, Rebbecca Mayoll found a Mitsubishi Zero in 18metres of water. Yes she really found a WW2 aircraft by herself. The best aspect of Papua New Guinea Dive holidays is the simple fact that the dive centres are so far apart. This means that while your dive PNG there is only ever one boat at any dive site.
Our Papua New Guinea Dive Holiday takes you south of the equator and just off the northern coast of Australia, the country of Papua New Guinea is perhaps the most isolated and yet most rewarding dive location on earth. Formed of New Guinea and Papua, the nation is known as PNG to westerners, and Niugini to its people. We like the name Niugini, so we always call it by its pidjin name or in English: New Guinea. Never confuse New Guinea with the Indonesian Province of Iriyan Jaya, sometimes called West Papua. The diving and the welcome and services are very different. New Guinea Diving is mind-blowing.
Lissenung Island
Lissenung Island Resort is unique, it is one of the northern most dive locations in Papua New Guinea and during the second world war was firmly under the Imperial Japanese Navies air supply route. What this means to the diver in Lissenung is that in addition to the most phenomenal passage diving where schools of jacks and sharks abound, there are deep and shallow aircraft wrecks to explore.
Walindi Plantation, Kimbe Bay
There is little doubt that the scuba diving in Kimbe Bay is some of the best tropical diving on earth. We will go out on a limb here and say that diving in the Witu Islands, the Fathers Reefs and Kimbe Bay are probably the best tropical dives in the World. The Walindi Dive Resort maintains its plantation heritage, with colonial style bungalows raised off the ground, overlooking the sea.
MV FeBrina
New Guineas only liveaboard dive boat. Under the command of Alan Raabe the owner/skipper, the vessel plies the waters from Walindi Resort in Kimbe Bay to the Witus and beyond. She is one of the most famous dive vessels in Oceania owed to the quality of the diving and hospitality onboard. The sheer number of repeat customers is the only reference needed.
Tufi Dive Resort
Stunning, untouched, full of life, full of surprises and clearly very rarely visited – that best sums up the diving off Tufi. Unlike traditional beach resorts Tufi Dive Resort is located on a cliff top in the Oro Province and overlooking the ocean.This means that besides diving, the location is superb for hikers, bird watchers, kayakers and fishermen, offering something for everyone.