If you could only dive one site for the rest of your life…

Helen Brierley · Issue 100, Jan/Feb 2018 · pp. 74–77

Products mentioned: Nikon D500, Nauticam Housing, YSD1 strobes, Tokina 10-17mm, 105mm Micro Nikkor

How often do divers, always in search of exciting new depths to explore, ask each other, “So where’s the best place you’ve ever dived?” The answer might be The Philippines, The Galapagos, Mexico or any number of places with thrilling big animals, great bio-diversity or stunning underwater topography. But is there one site you could see yourself returning to again and again? Somewhere you’d be happy to explore day in, day out? Well I think we just found the place that would fit the bill for us. Arriving in Papua New Guinea recently, our first stop was Milne Bay. With many different sites to choose from, some nearby and others an hour or two boat ride away, there is plenty to fill a week or two of diving, but once we discovered Lawadi, we were hooked and just wanted to keep going back. It’s no surprise, as we soon discovered, that this was where ‘muck diving’ first began, yet that’s not th…