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 For the wreck enthusiast, Truk is the holy grail of wreck diving. A true wreck divers paradise, suitable for both novice and experienced divers. The calm, clear, sheltered lagoon is relatively free from currents, providing safe, easy diving conditions.
The Truk Lagoon ocean floor holds an entire Japanese fleet frozen in time, where it sank in February 1944. Complete with sake cups, skeletons, jeeps, tanks, bulldozers, cranes, canons, ammunitions, bombs, torpedoes and fighter planes still waiting in their holds, the wrecks have been declared an underwater museum. These days the battle scars, WWII ruins and underwater wrecks attract dive enthusiasts to these remote islands. As the lagoon has been declared a monument, salvage and souvenir taking of relics are prohibited by law.
 The World's largest accessible WWII shipwrecks along with million dollar point have made Santo a mecca for divers from all over the world because of the diversity of the diving offered, ranging from live coral to spectacular wrecks.
Now the final resting place of the massive 22,000 ton liner turned troopship “SS President Coolidge" and the destroyer “USS Tucker", both victims of US placed mines.
 During World War II, Guadalcanal came to international attention as the stage for one of the bloodiest battles of the Pacific campaign. Bitter fighting raged between American and Japanese forces for six months on Guadalcanal Island until the Japanese withdrew early in 1943. Now many war wrecks and relics can be seen on both on land and underwater. These include ships, aircraft, guns, cannons and tanks. From Guadalcanal it is easy to combine another Great wreck diving location of Tulagi
 In these beautiful waters around Tulagi, some of the Solomons best diving is to be found, from pristine reefs to spectacular WWII wrecks.
Want some wrecks? Tulagi is the place to go. Two Seaplanes, one Mine sweeper, one Oil Tanker and the Destroyer “Aaron Ward” are just waiting for you.
Combine with some big fish action and caves like Twin Tunnels you can descend through two vertical openings and emerge 35m below to watch gray reef sharks cruising through big schools of Fusiliers. It all adds upto 1 exhilarating diving location.
 Simpson Harbour boasts a multitude of big ships and plane wrecks from WWII when Rabaul was the biggest Japanese Naval and submarine base for the South Pacific. It was the fortified base and staging area for Japan’s invasion of Papua New Guinea.
A selection of these wrecks are accessible to divers and offer unique experiences enhanced by exhilarating reefs, walls and drop-offs. It is truly the Mecca for the adventurous wreck diver.
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