Dive LoloataPort Moresby

The resort's own dive shop offers two or three tank dive excursions to the reef. Their two 30ft monohull purpose built dive boats, "Reef Master I + II", take up to 10 divers each. The boats leave for the first dive from the resort around 8am in the morning and travels to the reef for two dives. It returns to the resort again at around 2pm. With 20 knots cruising speed, "Reef Master" can reach all the fantastic dive sites around Port Moresby in a very short time.

Dive courses and equipment rental (all except dive computers) are available.
The dive shop organises snorkelling tours to "Lion Island" as well, which is close to Loloata Island.

This is our "home turf". Dirk and Claudia dived here regularly for 3 years when they lived in PNG and still love it. There are about 30 charted dive locations in close distance to Port Moresby and nearby Bootless Bay, which offer wreck and reef diving in calm waters with sometimes slight currents. The reefs and wrecks are in sport diving ranges, between 10 and 40 metres approximately. Also on offer are some very enjoyable shallow dives, such as the Lion Island "muck dive site" where you can encounter a lot of critters in the sand and gravel, such as crocodile fish and ghost pipefish.

Diving the reefs around Port Moresby is great for novice to experienced divers. The reefs close to Port Moresby are accessible all year round. Water temperatures range from 24C (76F) in August and September, up to 29C (86F) in March and April.

Pacific Gas: a very nice wreck to dive at - the "Pacific Gas". She lies between 15 and 43 metres, with the mast at 14 metres. On the whole shipwreck, but particularly on its mast, the coral growth is impressive. Divers can penetrate parts of the wreck quite easily, for example the bridge at 25 metres. There is a large number of lionfish at the wreck, sometimes 12 or more are hovering at one spot.

Pai II: This wreck of an ex fishing trawler at 30 metres, is worth a few dives. The wreck is upright on the ocean floor, one of the masts reaches up to 10 metres. The coral growth and fish life on the wreck is enormous. A huge puffer fish and a large grouper are "permanent residents" here. The nearby reef is pretty, and ideal for a safety stop. Both The "Pacific Gas" as well as the "Pai II" have been sunk by Bob Halstead and are now overgrown with corals and teeming with fish life.

End Bommie: At the "End Bommie" you can sometimes find the "Rhinopius" and the Pygmy seahorse. The reef walls are overgrown with gorgonians, and with currents there, is abundant with fish life.

Suzies Bommie: "Suzies Bommie" is a pristine bommie situated on white sand with a plethora of corals and fish life. This is a good site for the Pygmy seahorse and a real treat for macro photographers!

Bring your own equipment. The dive shop does have digital editing facilities for video and you might be able to dump digital data on a CDR.