Vacations To Cabo San Lucas

Santo diving offers great access to some of the world’s finest 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.

Dive operators tend to stick to the south-east coast, where you will find the wrecks of the SS President Coolige and the USS Tucker and an area known as ‘Million Dollar Point’. However, great reef dives can be found all along the coastline. Most of the wreck and reef diving is suitable for divers of any ability, provided you have completed basic training.

These two quality wreck dives are just meters from the Vanuatu coast, both highly accessible to those diving on the island of Santo.

The SS President Coolidge is a American luxury liner converted to a US troop ship during the second world war. It sank just meters from the shore and is generally considered the largest accessible wreck dive in the world, and the top 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 second wreck is the SS Tucker, an American destroyer that was stationed in Vanuatu during the second world war. Unfortunately it was accidently sunk by one of the USA’s own mines, and now it too sits just offshore, close enough to be accessible to those diving in Santo.

During the relatively shallow Million Dollar Point dive, divers can see huge areas of military war equipment simply dumped when the US Army left Vanuatu at the end of world war two. This Santo dive includes ammunition boxes, military vehicles and even the odd bulldozer - understandably making this one the most popular Santo dives.