The Complete Milne Bay Scuba Diving Guide... A comprehensive guide to help you plan your trip to this incredible area of Papua New Guinea. Milne Bay is what put PNG on the radar of traveling divers and underwater photographers the world over. That was way back in the 1990's - but the diving is still as good as it always was! Milne Bay offers everything from black sand critter sites to manta ray cleaning stations. Simply stated, it is a tremendous place to go scuba diving! Milne Bay scuba diving was pioneered by Bob and Dinah Halstead with their liveaboard dive boat MV Telita. Liveaboards were just coming in to vogue about then …
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Papua New Guinea Scuba Diving
Papua New Guinea Scuba Diving... There is some amazing diving in PNG, but it really is a large and diverse country. It is also spread out over a big area - so where to even start? In reality it would take several trips to experience all the best places! So, if you are going there for the first time it is best to concentrate on one of the main scuba diving locations. Unless, of course, you have unlimited time and money… In which case you should probably do them all - diving PNG is addictive! Papua New Guinea Scuba Diving - Quick Overview The country of PNG consists of the eastern half of the island of New Guinea. Which is the second …
The Complete Papua New Guinea Survival Guide
Use Indopacificimages’ Complete Papua New Guinea Survival Guide to make sense of this wild and adventurous country. PNG has so much to offer both divers and travelers who want to go somewhere different! Papua New Guinea suffers from a pretty bad reputation for corruption, violence and a general lack of safety. Yet dig deeper and you will find a truly interesting and rewarding location. By peeling that onion you will understand the country much better. And you will be able to make an informed decision as to whether the country is for you. Because, let's be honest, Papua New Guinea really is not for everybody! The …
The Complete PNG Scuba Diving Guide
Use Indopacificimages' Complete PNG Scuba Diving Guide to help you to plan your trip to what really is one of the last frontiers. Truly a wild and adventurous place, Papua New Guinea scuba diving is without doubt some of the best in the world. And the country also offers many unique and fascinating things to see above the water. But it’s not the easiest place to get to... And you will heard all sorts of stories about PNG. So you will probably be wondering if is even safe to go? Where and when to go to and how to get there? The basic thing to understand about PNG is that it is one of the world's most diverse and contrasting …
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 Guinea to see these wonderful creatures!. From a distance there is little to distinguish the island from the myriad of others in this part of southern Milne Bay Province. Reef manta rays - Manta alfredi - had been known to patrol its northern beach of Gonu Bara Bara for many years. But all attempts to try and interact with them were random at best.... Maybe you would see one or more, maybe you …
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 WWII. Although it played second fiddle to the huge Japanese naval base at Rabaul in New Britain. Kavieng was in fact a very strategic location for the invading Japanese forces during WWII. The town's location in New Ireland Province meant that it protected their rear. It was also an important part of their military supply chain. Fighting as they were to gain complete control of PNG and then prepare …
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 New Britain. The bay is called Kimbe and the country is Papua New Guinea. The wild and exciting nation crafted together in colonial times from the eastern half of the huge island of New Guinea and a string of other islands stretching out in to the Bismarck and Solomon Seas. Surveys have shown that the bay is host to around 860 species of reef fish and 400 species of coral. Not to …
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 coast of New Guinea island. The wreck is the B17-F Black Jack Flying Fortress and what many consider to be the very best aircraft wreck in Papua New Guinea. Discovered, almost by accident, in 1986 by Australians Rod Pearce, Bruce Johnson and David Pennefather. Who were conducting a dedicated expedition to look for what they thought was probably an Australian Beaufort A9. Pennefather …
It’s PNG Expect The Unexpected
It's PNG Expect the Unexpected - Papua New Guinea is truly one of the last frontiers, the country is a wild & adventurous place that offers some tremendous scuba diving, combined with many unique and fascinating things to see above the water. One of the world’s most heterogeneous countries, Papua New Guinea (PNG) has a population of around 6.5 million people, but over 850 languages and nearly 1000 traditional societies & ethnic indigenous groups. X-Ray magazine recently published an extensive section on scuba diving in Papua New Guinea featuring articles on Tufi, Milne Bay, New Ireland and New Britain and asked me to write an …