DIVING IN THE SOLOMONS: NO WETSUIT REQUIRED

Mike Parker Brown

Just what makes the Solomon Islands such a mecca for lovers of the underwater world? The answer is simple – the 992 islands and unspoilt coral reefs making up these ‘Hapi Isles’, literally teem with huge numbers and varieties of marine life. Add to this the literally hundreds of shipwrecks and downed aircraft that litter the seabed, so much so that in one area just a short journey from Honiara, the country's bustling capital, has been renamed ‘Iron Bottom Sound’. Throw in technicolour coral pastures, steep walls, shallow reefs, tunnels, drop-offs, and a veritable pot pourri of demersal, reef and pelagic fish which literally swarm these bath warm waters and the result is a diver's paradise and definitely ‘no wetsuit required’. Most of the known accessible diving in the Solomon…

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