The Solomon Islands

Large aggregations of these sharks are a common sight in the current-rich passages and on the outer reefs of the islands.

Grey Reef Shark

Graceful rays are seasonally encountered at specialized cleaning stations and in the nutrient-rich channels.

Manta Ray

A unique and rare encounter; they are occasionally seen by divers in the mangrove areas and some reef sites.

Saltwater Crocodile

A dazzling variety of colorful sea slugs can be found among the sponges and bryozoans of the pristine reefs.

Nudibranchs

The Solomon Islands offer one of the most pristine and diverse diving experiences in the world, characterized by an extraordinary density of WWII wrecks, vibrant coral reefs, and breathtaking underwater topography. This archipelago of nearly 1,000 islands in the South Pacific remains remarkably untouched by mass tourism, providing a sense of discovery that is rare in modern diving. Guadalcanal and Iron Bottom Sound are world-famous as the final resting place of dozens of shipwrecks and aircraft from the Pacific theater of WWII. Beyond the historical significance, the Solomon Islands boast some of the highest marine biodiversity on the planet, being part of the Coral Triangle. Sites in the Western Province, such as Gizo and Munda, offer spectacular vertical walls, intricate caves, and pristine hard coral gardens. The Russell Islands and Mary Island provide high-voltage pelagic action with schools of barracuda, jacks, and various shark species. With exceptional visibility often exceeding 30 meters, warm water year-round, and a deeply ingrained culture of hospitality, the Solomon Islands provide a premier underwater adventure that perfectly complements its stunning tropical beauty and unique Melanesian heritage.

Liveaboards are an exceptional way to explore the more remote reaches of the Solomon Islands, particularly the Russell Islands and Mary Island, which are difficult to reach via land-based operations.

Heritage Park Hotel

Fatboys Resort

Agnes Gateway Hotel

Gizo, the lively capital of the Western Province, sits among a scatter of islands and reefs that deliver the Solomon Islands' most celebrated shark action and s...

Gizo & Ghizo Island

Guadalcanal and its capital Honiara sit above Iron Bottom Sound, one of the most historically charged bodies of water on Earth, where the 1942–43 Guadalcanal Ca...

Guadalcanal – Honiara & Iron Bottom Sound

Makira and Ulawa, in the remote Southern Province, are among the least-explored dive frontiers in the Solomon Islands, prized for pristine outer reefs that see...

Makira & Ulawa (Southern Province)

Mborokua, widely known as Mary Island, is a remote volcanic island south of New Georgia that delivers some of the most exhilarating big-animal diving in the Sol...

Mborokua (Mary Island) – Remote Pelagics

Munda, on the western tip of New Georgia, is the laid-back adventure capital of the Western Province, a place where WWII wrecks, mushroom-coral fields and thril...

Munda & New Georgia

Ontong Java and the Stewart and Sikaiana Islands are the far-northern atolls of the Solomon Islands, a near-mythical diving frontier reached only by the longest...

Ontong Java & Stewart Islands (Far Northern Atolls)

The Temotu Province and the Reef Islands form the far eastern extremity of the Solomon Islands, a remote frontier reached only by long liveaboard voyages from t...

Temotu & Reef Islands (Easternmost Remote)

The Tulagi and Florida Islands group, part of Central Province, is the Solomon Islands' other great wreck-and-macro theatre, a short hop across Iron Bottom Soun...

Tulagi & Florida Islands

Uepi Island sits on the barrier reef at the mouth of Marovo Lagoon, the largest double-barrier enclosed lagoon in the world and a UNESCO-listed treasure of the...

Uepi Island & Marovo Lagoon

Batfish Corner (Uepi)

Batfish Corner (Uepi) is one of the signature dive sites of Uepi Island & Marovo Lagoon in the Solomon Islands. Batfish Corner is a cleaning station at Uepi whe...

Bonegi I (Hirokawa Maru)

Bonegi I (Hirokawa Maru) is one of the signature dive sites of Guadalcanal – Honiara & Iron Bottom Sound in the Solomon Islands. The 133 m Japanese transport Hi...

Bonegi II (Kinugawa Maru)

Bonegi II (Kinugawa Maru) is one of the signature dive sites of Guadalcanal – Honiara & Iron Bottom Sound in the Solomon Islands. The 122 m Kinugawa Maru sits j...

Bonegi III (Kyusyu Maru)

Bonegi III (Kyusyu Maru) is one of the signature dive sites of Guadalcanal – Honiara & Iron Bottom Sound in the Solomon Islands. The 40 m Kyusyu Maru is the sma...

Cabbage Garden (Russell Islands)

Cabbage Garden (Russell Islands) is one of the signature dive sites of Tulagi & Florida Islands in the Solomon Islands. Cabbage Garden is a pristine field of ca...

Cathedral Wall (Marovo Lagoon)

Cathedral Wall (Marovo Lagoon) is one of the signature dive sites of Uepi Island & Marovo Lagoon in the Solomon Islands. Cathedral Wall is a vertical Marovo wal...

Doma Reef (Coral Sea Wreck)

Doma Reef (Coral Sea Wreck) is one of the signature dive sites of Guadalcanal – Honiara & Iron Bottom Sound in the Solomon Islands. Doma Reef holds the scattere...

Ghizo Island South Wall

Ghizo Island South Wall is one of the signature dive sites of Gizo & Ghizo Island in the Solomon Islands. The Ghizo Island South Wall is a vertical drop-off cla...

Grand Central Station (Gizo)

Grand Central Station (Gizo) is one of the signature dive sites of Gizo & Ghizo Island in the Solomon Islands. Grand Central Station is a world-famous baited sh...

Haepe Reef

Haepe Reef is one of the signature dive sites of Munda & New Georgia in the Solomon Islands. Haepe Reef is a pristine hard-coral garden with giant clams, turtle...

HMNZS Moa

HMNZS Moa is one of the signature dive sites of Tulagi & Florida Islands in the Solomon Islands. The 51 m New Zealand corvette HMNZS Moa sank in 1943 and lies a...

I-1 Japanese Submarine (Tambea)

I-1 Japanese Submarine (Tambea) is one of the signature dive sites of Guadalcanal – Honiara & Iron Bottom Sound in the Solomon Islands. The 98 m Japanese Type I...

Japanese Seaplane Wreck (Visale)

Japanese Seaplane Wreck (Visale) is one of the signature dive sites of Guadalcanal – Honiara & Iron Bottom Sound in the Solomon Islands. The Japanese Aichi E13A...

Japanese Sweeper Wreck (Gizo)

Japanese Sweeper Wreck (Gizo) is one of the signature dive sites of Gizo & Ghizo Island in the Solomon Islands. The Japanese Sweeper Wreck is a shallow small-bo...

Japanese Transport Wrecks (Tulagi Harbour)

Japanese Transport Wrecks (Tulagi Harbour) is one of the signature dive sites of Tulagi & Florida Islands in the Solomon Islands. Several smaller Japanese freig...

Japanese Zero Wreck (Munda)

Japanese Zero Wreck (Munda) is one of the signature dive sites of Munda & New Georgia in the Solomon Islands. The Japanese Mitsubishi Zero rests intact on a cor...

JFK Reef (Gizo)

JFK Reef (Gizo) is one of the signature dive sites of Gizo & Ghizo Island in the Solomon Islands. JFK Reef is a shallow Gizo macro site rich in frogfish, ghost...

Kennedy Island (Plum Pudding Reef)

Kennedy Island (Plum Pudding Reef) is one of the signature dive sites of Gizo & Ghizo Island in the Solomon Islands. Kennedy Island's Plum Pudding Reef is a sha...

Kennedy's Barge

Kennedy's Barge is one of the signature dive sites of Gizo & Ghizo Island in the Solomon Islands. Kennedy's Barge is a small wreck at 15 to 20 m, now an artific...

Kicha Island (Marovo)

Kicha Island (Marovo) is one of the signature dive sites of Uepi Island & Marovo Lagoon in the Solomon Islands. Kicha Island in Marovo has pristine fringing ree...

Leru Cut (Russell Islands)

Leru Cut (Russell Islands) is one of the signature dive sites of Tulagi & Florida Islands in the Solomon Islands. Leru Cut is a narrow, deep cleft sliced into a...

Makira Outer Wall

Makira Outer Wall is one of the signature dive sites of Makira & Ulawa (Southern Province) in the Solomon Islands. Makira Outer Wall is a steep, current-washed...

Manta Point (Russell Islands)

Manta Point (Russell Islands) is one of the signature dive sites of Tulagi & Florida Islands in the Solomon Islands. Manta Point in the Russell Islands is a sha...

Marovo Lagoon House Reefs

Marovo Lagoon House Reefs is one of the signature dive sites of Uepi Island & Marovo Lagoon in the Solomon Islands. The Marovo Lagoon house reefs are shallow, c...

Mary Island Bommies

Mary Island Bommies is one of the signature dive sites of Mborokua (Mary Island) – Remote Pelagics in the Solomon Islands. Mary Island Bommies are isolated cora...

Mary Island Manta Point

Mary Island Manta Point is one of the signature dive sites of Mborokua (Mary Island) – Remote Pelagics in the Solomon Islands. Mary Island Manta Point is a west...

Mary Island (Russell Islands)

Mary Island (Russell Islands) is one of the signature dive sites of Tulagi & Florida Islands in the Solomon Islands. Mary Island in the Russell Islands is a ste...

Mary Island Wall

Mary Island Wall is one of the signature dive sites of Mborokua (Mary Island) – Remote Pelagics in the Solomon Islands. Mary Island Wall is a remote volcanic dr...

Mbulo Island (Marovo)

Mbulo Island (Marovo) is one of the signature dive sites of Uepi Island & Marovo Lagoon in the Solomon Islands. Mbulo Island's outer-reef drop-offs in Marovo ca...

Munda Bar (Kashi Maru Wreck)

Munda Bar (Kashi Maru Wreck) is one of the signature dive sites of Munda & New Georgia in the Solomon Islands. The 90 m Japanese freighter Kashi Maru sank in 19...

Munda Reef (Mushroom Forest)

Munda Reef (Mushroom Forest) is one of the signature dive sites of Munda & New Georgia in the Solomon Islands. Munda Reef's Mushroom Forest is an extensive fiel...

Ontong Java

Ontong Java is one of the signature dive sites of Ontong Java & Stewart Islands (Far Northern Atolls) in the Solomon Islands. Ontong Java is one of the world's...

Reef Islands

Reef Islands is one of the signature dive sites of Temotu & Reef Islands (Easternmost Remote) in the Solomon Islands. The Reef Islands are pristine outer atolls...

Sandy Beach (Mbokona Bay)

Sandy Beach (Mbokona Bay) is one of the signature dive sites of Guadalcanal – Honiara & Iron Bottom Sound in the Solomon Islands. Sandy Beach at Mbokona Bay is...

Seal Point (Gizo)

Seal Point (Gizo) is one of the signature dive sites of Gizo & Ghizo Island in the Solomon Islands. Seal Point is a steep Gizo wall clad in gorgonians, where wh...

Shark Point (Munda Bar)

Shark Point (Munda Bar) is one of the signature dive sites of Munda & New Georgia in the Solomon Islands. Shark Point at the Munda Bar is a baited shark dive wh...

Sikaiana & Stewart Islands

Sikaiana & Stewart Islands is one of the signature dive sites of Ontong Java & Stewart Islands (Far Northern Atolls) in the Solomon Islands. Sikaiana and Stewar...

The Cave (Russell Islands)

The Cave (Russell Islands) is one of the signature dive sites of Tulagi & Florida Islands in the Solomon Islands. The Cave is a submerged cavern in the Russell...

The Pinnacles (off Honiara)

The Pinnacles (off Honiara) is one of the signature dive sites of Guadalcanal – Honiara & Iron Bottom Sound in the Solomon Islands. The Pinnacles are offshore s...

The Slot (Uepi Island)

The Slot (Uepi Island) is one of the signature dive sites of Uepi Island & Marovo Lagoon in the Solomon Islands. The Slot is a deep channel between Uepi and Cha...

Toa Maru Wreck

Toa Maru Wreck is one of the signature dive sites of Gizo & Ghizo Island in the Solomon Islands. The 140 m Japanese transport Toa Maru was torpedoed in 1943 and...

Tombatuni Passage (Vona Vona Lagoon)

Tombatuni Passage (Vona Vona Lagoon) is one of the signature dive sites of Munda & New Georgia in the Solomon Islands. Tombatuni Passage in the Vona Vona Lagoon...

Turtle Point (Honiara)

Turtle Point (Honiara) is one of the signature dive sites of Guadalcanal – Honiara & Iron Bottom Sound in the Solomon Islands. Turtle Point is a gentle sloping...

Uepi Point

Uepi Point is one of the signature dive sites of Uepi Island & Marovo Lagoon in the Solomon Islands. Uepi Point is the hallmark wall dive of the Solomons, a she...

Ulawa Atoll

Ulawa Atoll is one of the signature dive sites of Makira & Ulawa (Southern Province) in the Solomon Islands. Ulawa Atoll is a pristine, untouched coral atoll wi...

USS Aaron Ward

USS Aaron Ward is one of the signature dive sites of Tulagi & Florida Islands in the Solomon Islands. The 106 m US destroyer USS Aaron Ward was sunk in 1943 and...

USS Kanawha

USS Kanawha is one of the signature dive sites of Tulagi & Florida Islands in the Solomon Islands. The 140 m fleet oiler USS Kanawha was sunk in 1943 and rests...

Vanikoro Island

Vanikoro Island is one of the signature dive sites of Temotu & Reef Islands (Easternmost Remote) in the Solomon Islands. Vanikoro Island is famous for the 1788...

Vonavona Lagoon

Vonavona Lagoon is one of the signature dive sites of Munda & New Georgia in the Solomon Islands. Vonavona Lagoon is a calm muck and macro paradise where seahor...

Yandina Reefs

Yandina Reefs is one of the signature dive sites of Tulagi & Florida Islands in the Solomon Islands. Yandina Reefs are sloping coral gardens rich in macro life,...

Internal transport is almost exclusively by domestic flight (Solomon Airlines) due to the rugged terrain and lack of roads. On the islands, taxis and local boats are common.

Scuba Diving Sites in The Solomon Islands

Site Statistics

Finding Your Spot

Filter All Sites