Papua New Guinea

Diving New Britain Island in PNG

Diving New Britain Island… Papua New Guinea’s “second island” sits right on the interface of some incredibly powerful forces of nature! Physically located along the infamous Pacific Ring of Fire. New Britain is a large crescent shaped island …

Diving New Guinea Island in PNG

Diving New Guinea Island… When the 16th century Portuguese and Spanish explorers first arrived in the far-eastern part of what was then called the Malay Archipelago. They had no way of knowing they had stumbled upon the second largest island in …

Underwater Photography in PNG

Underwater photography in Papua New Guinea… PNG, as is it more commonly referred to, is located just south of the Equator and to the north of Australia. It is a large and diverse nation that is known principally for its unique tribal cultures, …

Diving the North Coast of Milne Bay

Diving the North Coast of Milne Bay… I am often asked why I like Papua New Guinea so much. And the honest answer is, as they say in the movies, it’s complicated! First of all, for me PNG is a wild and adventurous place. And as an Australian I …

Diving the Witu Islands

Diving the Witu Islands… As they say in the real estate business, location is everything. And it is Papua New Guinea’s physical position, astride the Equator, at the end of what was historically referred to as the Malay Archipelago. That puts …

Best Aircraft Wrecks in PNG

The Best Aircraft Wreck Dives in PNG – World War II came to New Guinea in January 1942 when the Imperial Japanese Army invaded Rabaul in New Britain. Turning the region in to a major theater of war in the battle for the Pacific. There were many …

Aircraft Wrecks of PNG

The aircraft wrecks of Papua New Guinea offer some of the best and most interesting, dives in the country… PNG was a major battle theater during the Second World War. Many lives were lost on both sides in the bitter fighting between the …

Diving in PNG – Intro and Overview

Diving in PNG… At the closest point of contact just 6km separates Australia from Papua New Guinea. And yet there is so much that is different between these two close neighbours!Australia is a first-world country with many things that are …

The Manta Rays of Milne Bay

Milne Bay Manta Rays – At the southern end of the China Strait is a small island called Gonu Bara Bara. It is quite simply the best place in the whole province to see the manta rays. In fact it is probably the best place in all of Papua New …

Kavieng’s WWII Wrecks

Kavieng’s WWII Wrecks… The small town of Kavieng was seized by the Japanese in January in 1942 when they invaded PNG. That invasion came just seven weeks after the surprise air attack on Pearl Harbour which brought America into …

Kimbe Bay – The Coral Crucible

Kimbe Bay the Coral Crucible. There is a line of thought in the scientific community that this is where it all may have began. Where the first corals originated… a large sheltered bay, roughly one third along the north coast of the large island of …

Diving PNG’s Holy Grail – Black Jack

Diving PNG’s Holy Grail... Like a scene from a Hollywood film set – the huge plane sits serenely in 50m of clear blue water just of the fringing reef near the village of Boga Boga. The area is quite remote at the tip of Cape Vogel on northeast …