28 Jun

Santo Diving

by T J Fisher

Diving in Santo offers you access to some of the world's finest reefs and underwater caves, plus two of the world's most accessible shipwrecks.

Dive operators tend to stick to the south-east coast, where you will find the wrecks of the SS President Coolidge and the USS Tucker and an area known as 'Million Dollar Point'. However, great reef dives can be found all along the coastline. Most of the wreck and reef diving is suitable for divers of any ability, provided you have completed basic training.

The USS President Coolidge and the USS Tucker wreck dives lie just meters from the Vanuatu coastline, both highly accessible to anyone diving on the island of Santo. Both wrecks are American ships that during World War II.

An American luxury liner converted to an American troop ship during WWII, the SS President Coolidge sank just meters from the shore and is the premium dive in Santo. Novices can dive the main bulk of the ship, whereas more experienced divers can go deeper into the wreck to look at life on the inside.

The SS Tucker is an American destroyer stationed in Vanuatu during the second world war. It was accidently sunk by one of the USA's own mines, and now it too lies just offshore.

During the relatively shallow Million Dollar Point dive, divers can see huge areas of military war surplus simply dumped when the US Army left Vanuatu at the end of world war two. This Santo dive includes ammunition boxes, military vehicles and even the odd bulldozer - understandably making this one the most popular Santo dives.

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