Diving Northern Papua New Guinea - Wewak and Madang
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GOLDEN DAWN'S annual schedule of dive destinations involves relocating the vessel to different locations in the country. This enables us to offer our clients the kind of varied and |
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exciting
diving that is consistent with Papua New Guinea's reputation for world
class underwater action as we choose to dive these regions during the
optimum weather conditions.
Muschu
and Kairuru. Here the Japanese were surprised attacked during WW2 and
a number of their armed merchant fleet were sunk. The testimony of time
has changed these wrecks
into large artificial
reefs, providing homes for an abundance
of marine life. Many species of scorpion fish can be found camouflaged
against the hull ghost pipefish and frogfish have been sighted. You could
easily spend a few days on these wrecks, while the vis can be modest sometimes
it is around 100' (30m). Continuing north some 120nm towards the equator
the outer islands of Ninigo and Hermits provide true atoll
style 
diving
with visibility exceeding 130' (40m) and the seas are calm and warm. On
this part of the journey we frequently encounter eagle rays, mantas, devil,
marble and cow rays, turtles and a huge pod of friendly dolphins. One
of the dive locations in this region, "The Dive", is another memorable
site with pelagic fish life in the thousands against a dramatic back drop
of reef in visibility that is in the region of 200' (60m).
