Santo diving offers great access to some of the world’s best reefs and underwater caves, plus two of the world’s most accessible shipwrecks. On the reefs, and in the underwater caves, you can see hundreds of colourful and interesting fish.
Wreck and reef diving in Santo is suitable for divers of any ability, provided they have completed basic training.Great reef dives can be found in most areas of the coastline. Dive operators tend to stick to the south-east coast, where you can find the wrecks of the SS President Coolidge and the USS Tucker and an area known as ‘Million Dollar Point’.
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, an American destroyer that was stationed in Vanuatu during WWII, is the second wreck. Unfortunately it was accidently sunk by one of the USA’s own mines, and now it too lies just offshore, close enough to be accessible to those diving in Santo.
When diving the relatively shallow Million Dollar Point, divers can see vaste areas of military war surplus that was simply dumped into the ocean when the Americans left Vanuatu at the end of the war. This Santo dive includes military vehicles and even the odd bulldozer – making it one the most popular Santo diving sites.
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