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SOLOMON ISLANDS SCUBA DIVING
S olomon Islands has some of the most of nudibranchs, pygmy seahorse, ghost to beat. After WWII, the water in between
pristine dive sites in the world. Un- pipefish and more. The reef is covered in the Florida Islands (Tulagi) and Guadalcanal
spoiled and undiscovered, our remote a variety of hard corals home to mandarin was renamed to Iron Bottom Sound due
location means there are not many divers to fish, eels and masses of reef fish. Many of the to the 200 ships, 690 air crafts and count-
put pressure on the reef and fish. The islands islands are surrounded by deep walls which less landing barges that sunk there during
have caverns, reefs, large sea fans, soft corals allow divers to interact with schools of pe- those many months of battle. Wreck diving
and lots of macro including a huge diversity lagics. The diversity of the Solomon’s is hard abounds.
