Papua New Guinea's coral reefs form a huge natural marine park. Located in the Indo-Pacific Ocean, it is said to have up to twice as many marine species as the waters of the Red Sea and up to five times as many as the Carribean.
Divers enjoy a huge diversity of dive sites including barrier reefs, coral walls (drop off), coral gardens, patch reefs, fringing reefs, sea grass beds, coral atolls, and wreck dive sites.
The wreck sites provide a collection of ships, aircraft and submarine wrecks from World War 2. The average water temperature varies from 25 degrees Celsius along the edge of the Coral Sea to 29 degrees Celsius in the Bismark Sea.
Dive operators offer both Land Base and Live-Aboard Dive Tours.
Land Base Tours normally consist of a day tour taking up to three dives whilst Live-Aboard Tours are on average up to six days.
Most land-Base Operators offer resort type dive courses and have fully equipped dive shops with diving and snorkelling equipment available for hire.
For those bringing their own equipment there are facilities available in the main cities to clean equipment.
The Papua New Guinea Diving Association has an environmental Code of Ethics that they honour to ensure that our country's sea beds, reefs and marine life are conserved and protected.
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