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Reef manta ray
Reef manta rays are among the ocean's most graceful giants, with wingspans reaching five metres. These filter-feeding rays gather at cleaning stations and plankton-rich currents, offering unforgettable, close encounters for divers at world-class manta destinations across the tropics.
Shipwrecks
Shipwreck dives explore sunken vessels transformed into living reefs, from shallow shore wrecks to deep technical penetrations. These sites blend history, structure and marine life, rewarding divers with clouds of fish, encrusting coral and a tangible sense of the past on every descent.
Whale shark
Whale sharks are the largest fish in the sea, gentle filter feeders that visit certain dive and snorkel sites in seasonal aggregations. Encountering one of these spotted giants is a bucket-list moment, best planned around local upwellings and plankton blooms.
Coral reefs
Coral reef dive sites showcase vibrant hard and soft corals, from shallow gardens to dramatic wall systems, supporting extraordinary fish diversity in the Solomon Islands' warm, clear waters. These reefs form the living foundation of the dive experience, with bommies, lagoons and slopes alive with colour, nudibranchs, anemones and schooling fish year-round.
Drift dives
Drift dives use the current to glide along walls and channels, ideal where strong flows concentrate baitfish, sharks and other pelagic life on the outer reefs. In the Solomon Islands, passages like Tombatuni and the Slot let divers ride nutrient-rich currents past coral gardens and hunting predators without a fin stroke.
Grey reef shark
The grey reef shark is the Solomon Islands' most common reef shark, gathering in numbers at current-swept passages, cleaning stations and remote walls across the archipelago. Confident and curious, these sleek predators patrol drop-offs in stately circles, and a steady diver with good buoyancy is rewarded with close, natural encounters.
Hammerhead shark
Scalloped hammerheads school seasonally at remote offshore walls and seamounts, a bucket-list sighting for experienced divers in the Solomon Islands' blue water. These shy, unmistakable sharks form eerie silhouettes in the current, best seen on deep, early dives with patient positioning and minimal disturbance at the edge of the reef.
Macro life
Macro dive sites reward patient photographers with small wonders such as nudibranchs, frogfish, seahorses, ghost pipefish and octopus among the reefs and wrecks. The Solomon Islands' calm lagoons and encrusted hulls hide pygmy seahorses, mandarinfish and flashlight fish, making every slow, close-focus dive a treasure hunt for the keen-eyed explorer.
Manta cleaning stations
Manta cleaning stations are where reef mantas queue to be serviced by cleaner wrasse, offering reliable, close encounters at shallow, current-swept sites. In the Solomon Islands, places like Manta Point let divers hover motionless as these five-metre rays loop overhead, flaring their cephalic fins while parasitic cleaners pick them clean.
Pelagic dives
Pelagic dive sites focus on open-water life: schooling jacks and barracuda, tuna, sharks and rays that patrol the blue beyond the reef. The Solomon Islands' outer walls and seamounts, from Mary Island to the remote Temotu reefs, deliver the thrill of big-animal encounters drifting out of the deep.
Seahorse
Seahorses hide among seagrass, soft corals and gorgonians at the Solomon Islands' calm muck and macro sites, a favourite of underwater photographers. The diminutive pygmy seahorse clings to sea fans here, while their larger cousins drift through seagrass beds, best spotted on slow, shallow dives with a keen trained eye.
Shark dives
Shark dives and baited feeds bring grey reef, silvertip and other sharks close, delivering high-adrenaline encounters in the Solomon Islands. From the current-fed passages of Marovo Lagoon to remote outer-reef walls, these sites let divers safely witness shark behaviour, schooling and cleaning in numbers few destinations can match.
Soft coral sites
Soft-coral sites are draped in tree-like Alcyonacea and colourful gorgonians that cloak wrecks and walls, glowing under the right light. In the Solomon Islands these corals flourish on wrecks like Bonegi and Toa Maru and on lagoon bommies, pulsing with the current and sheltering countless small reef creatures.
Sea turtle
Green and hawksbill turtles graze and rest on the Solomon Islands' reefs, a reliable and gentle highlight for divers of every level. These ancient reptiles nap under ledges, nibble sponge and coral, and surface between dives, with the calm lagoons and walls offering frequent, relaxed encounters throughout the year.
Wall dives
Wall dives plunge from shallow reefs into the deep blue, draped in coral, fans and black coral and patrolled by sharks and pelagics. The Solomon Islands' signature walls, from Uepi Point to the remote outer-reef drop-offs of Marovo and the far north, offer dramatic topography and endless blue-water potential.
WWII wrecks
WWII wreck dives explore the ships and aircraft lost in the Pacific campaign, now coral-encrusted artificial reefs rich in history and marine life. The Solomon Islands' Iron Bottom Sound alone holds dozens of losses, and sites from Bonegi to Tulagi let divers swim among transports, destroyers and aircraft in accessible, story-rich conditions.
Aircraft wrecks
Aircraft wreck dives feature sunken seaplanes and fighters draped in coral, offering accessible, photogenic history on the Solomon Islands' reefs. From the Visale floatplane to scattered B-17 wreckage, these sites combine wartime poignancy with encrusted structure, attracting glassfish, lionfish and macro life for the curious diver.