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PORT VILA DIVE SITES

Centrally located on the seawall in Port Vila, her starboard side in 26 meters of water. In calm
Vanuatu’s capital city, Big Blue is Vanuatu’s conditions Aloara is an excellent penetration dive

only PADI 5 Star Instructor Development Dive for experienced divers. Excellent pre-Coolidge

Resort, offering professional, friendly service to diving. This dive is usually combined with an ex-

both divers and snorkelers. We take divers of all tra 15 mins on top of the nearby reef. Max depth:

levels out to our reefs and wrecks. With 3 boats 26 meters.

Big Blue has the flexibility to accommodate

divers with different abilities and requirements ANCHOR REEF: An old ship’s anchor embedded

including cruise ship passengers. For groups of in the reef gives this dive site its name. The top

six or more they can even arrange for you to have of the reef comes to within 6m of the surface.

your own boat and dedicated dive master of Numerous plate and stag horn coral as well as

instructor. Email us for more details. Well known schools of multi colored reef fish can be seen as

dive sites include: you descend down the mooring line. Visit the old

anchor at 14m then cruise slowly at 20m around

ALOARA (RISING SUN) WRECK - An island trader the reef and see trigger fish and many anemones

purchased by the people of Tongariki in 1990 to with their resident clownfish. A feature of this

work for the island. After carrying cargo from Vila dive is the white tip shark nursery. Usually 2 – 4

to all the islands, Aloara was laid up in 1999. In baby white tip sharks can be seen under a large

November 2001, after being prepared for sinking plate coral. Max Depth: 20 meters.

by the Hideaway staff, Aloara was sunk as a div-

ing wreck off Hideaway Island. She now lies on