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Vanuatu Dive Resorts

Kaiviti | Meridien | Bougainville | Santo | Aore

PORT VILA, EFATE, VANUATU

Port Vila is host to many duty free shops, 1st class resorts, an international casino, game fishing, sea kayaking, restaurants, sidewalk cafe's, Golf, horse riding, white sand beaches, sailing, and of course Scuba diving.

Port Vila has some good wreck and reef dives and it is recommended that you dive in Port Vila before travelling to Santo rather than after.

Kaiviti Village Motel, Efate, Vanuatu

Close to town, pool, suitable for long and transit stays. Very friendly offering twn/dbl rooms and family self contained units.

Le Meridien Port Vila Resort & Casino, Efate, Vanuatu

Overwater bungalows, pool, restaurants, casino, all you expect at a first class resort. All accommodations are serviced with free diving transfers!

ESPIRITU SANTO

Santo is the largest island in the group and most famous for its scuba diving and for being home of the largest most accessible wreck dive in the world, the SS President Coolidge. Built in 1931, it was a luxury passenger liner for 10 years before the military took it over and converted it to a troop carrier to support the war effort in the Pacific. While entering the harbour on the 26th October 1942, it struck two sea mines and sunk close to shore not far from the main town.

Measuring 654' 3" (202m) x 81' (24m) and weighing 22,000 tons the President Coolidge is a huge dive site strewn with military hardware and memorabilia of the World War II era. Sitting in 60' - 230' (18m 60m) and accessible by both boat and shore diving, 10 dives on this one wreck is not enough to even begin to appreciate the size and magnitude of this massive wreck. It has been said that diving the President Coolidge is as close as one will get to diving the Titanic!! Swimming past WWII trucks, jeeps, rifles, large guns, while at the same time looking at the grand fittings of lights and a fireplace, porcelain statues of an Elizabethan lady and unicorn, or a swimming pool reminds you of the contrast of a luxury liner turned troop ship.

Possibly one of the Coolidge's main attractions is "Boris" the 400lb (200kg) grouper. Boris is the ship's mascot and every day hangs around looking for food handouts. It's quite a sight to see a 400lb fish being hand feed right in front of you.

Santo also has other wrecks, Million Dollar Point where at the end of the war they pushed all the machinery off the shore, There are pristine coral reefs, drop-offs, wall dives, shark feeding dives, underground freshwater caves, and blue holes. You will never get bored for things to dive on. A month would not be enough time to see all there is to see.

Other attractions to Santo are custom villages, waterfalls, underground cave adventures, tracking, fishing, and Champagne Beach, a picture perfect white sand beach.

Bougainville Resort, Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu

Secluded separate bungalows set in a tropical garden atmosphere, swimming pool, ala-carte restaurant, lovely atmosphere, over looking the Segond channel. .

Hotel Santo, Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu

Center of town, air conditioned rooms, restaurant, pool, divers accommodation. Deco Stop - Excellent elevated view of Segond channel and surrounding islands, great hosts, pool, restaurant, real country welcome atmosphere, full and half day remote bush and village tours.

Aore Resort, Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu

Off shore island resort, Pool, beach, fishing, that remote off shore tropical experience, sgl/twn/dbl, family bungalows available. Aquamarine provides free diving transfers to all accommodations.