Papua New Guinea - The Perfect Location?

Staff · Issue 14, Aug/Sep 2003 · pp. 22–25

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22 A friend of mine once defined the perfect dive trip location as a place you could get to in a day or less, and once their dive on world-class sites from a first-class live-aboard boat. For most Australians, and come to think of it other most residents of SE Asia, Papua New Guinea has to be a prime contender for the title of the “perfect location”. There are so many places to dive in PNG, and so much to see, that it pays to do your research and decide what kind of diving you really want to do, as each location offers so many different opportunities. Milne Bay, at the southeastern tip of the main island of PNG is probably the best known of the diving areas and was pioneered by Bob Halstead, and his wife Dinah, on their boat MV Telita in the mid 1980’s. Since then other areas such as Kimbe Bay and Rabaul on the island of New Britain, and Kavieng on New Ireland, have been pioneered by peo…