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Pai II shipwreck’s gantry in Horseshoe Reef, Port Moresby, covered in soft coral Photo: Isabella Lee (www.prodivepng.com/)
renowned Walindi Plantation Resort in Kimbe, West New Britain; Tawali Resort in Alotau, Milne Bay; and Nusa Island Retreat and Lissenung Resort off Kavieng in New Ireland. Several liveaboard dive vessels also cater for six to 16 divers on extended trips to outlying dive sites. Keep in mind Port Moresby is home chamber , which is fully equipped and operational 24 hours a day. The chamber is maintained to international standards by operator Hyperbaric Partners in association with DAN (Divers Alert Network) International, and is located at the Port Moresby base of Tropicair, which can arrange aeromedical evacuations from locations countrywide. to the country’s only hyperbaric recompression For more information on diving in PNG contact: PNG Divers’ Association ph. 7211 5640 office@pngdivecom.pg www.pngdive.com
Home to hundreds of underwater sea mounts, bommies and pinnacles, as well as incredibly DIVING & SNORKELLING The pristine waters of Papua New Guinea are teeming with an abundance of rare and exotic tropical fishes, coral and critters well-preserved World War II wrecks, it is no wonder Papua New Guinea is one of the world’s most acclaimed dive destinations . The enormous concentration of fish and coral species in Papua New Guinean waters is due to the country’s central location in the Coral Triangle . The Coral Triangle is a meeting of three bodies of water: the Coral Sea to the south, the Bismarck Sea to the north and the Solomon
Sea to the east. With the huge
marine environment is largely unaffected by dive tourism and local operators strive to keep things this way. In Port Moresby, diving and snorkelling is varied and easily accessible. POMSAC at the yacht club, and the city’s oldest and largest dive operator, PRO Dive PNG (formerly The Dive Centre), offer snorkelling and diving tours in and around Port Moresby waters. You can choose from a range of snorkelling or diving options including shore dives, night dives, WWII wrecks, muck diving and wall dives. You can also take an hour’s flight across the Owen Stanley Range to Tufi Dive Resort in Northern Province. Other dive resorts outside of Port
expanse of the Pacific Ocean added to this unique combination you can see why Papua New Guinea is one of the world’s premier sites for the most diverse range of tropical fish and coral species in a single region. For many years droves of professional and amateur underwater photographers from around the world have been drawn to our waters, earning Papua New Guinea a well- deserved reputation as “an underwater photographer’s paradise” . An attractive
characteristic of diving in Papua
New Guinea is the uncongested sites . You will rarely see more than two or three dive boats at the same dive site. This also means the
Moresby are just a few hours away, such as the world-
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