Solomons PNG Master

The Solomons PNG Master  has 12 comfortable cabins split into four categories over 2 decks.  All cabins have air conditioning, personal reading lights, towels, charging station and plenty of storage with hair dryers and iPod docking stations available on request.

The 4 standard single cabins and 2 standard twin cabins are located on the lower deck and have shared bathroom facilities.  The 2 classic double cabins, 3 classic twin cabins and 1 premium double cabin are all located on the upper deck and have en-suite bathrooms.

Between dives there is plenty of space to relax in the spacious lounge and dining area located on the main deck, with flat screen TV, DVD, library and dedicated Camera Area for the photographers on board. There is also a large sundeck with comfortable sunbeds, and a second deck which has a huge covered seating area where you can sit back and relax with a good book and cold beer.

The meals offered on board are hugely varied with something to suit every taste and dietary requirement!  Breakfast, lunch and evening meals are served in the comfortable and sociable dining area located on the main deck.  Soft drinks, tea, coffee and water are complimentary during your stay on board, and snacks are available throughout the day.

You can expect 4 fantastic dives a day, conditions permitting.  The expansive dive deck has personal dive stations for each diver with storage, 5 freshwater shower cubicles, rinse tanks for your equipment and toilets.  Diving is from the large dive platform making entry and exit very simple. The boat is also rebreather friendly and Nitrox is available.

Taste of Solomons – 7 night itinerary (Honiara – Honiara)
Taste of the Solomons includes the Russell Islands and Florida Islands around Honiara including Ghavutu Island with WWII wrecks. This 7 night liveaboard adventure allows up to 22 dives including several night dives (depending on conditions).

The Solomon Island waters are very nutrient rich, with an abundance of marine life and biodiversity. There are numerous unspoiled hard and soft corals plus a variety of dive sites ranging from WWII wrecks to caverns to reefs. You will have a chance to see macro species such as pygmy seahorses and nudibranchs, plus scores of reef fish, mantas, numerous sharks, and even pilot whales!

Best of the Solomons – 10 night itinerary (Honiara – Honiara)
The Best of the Solomons includes the Russell Islands and Florida Islands and ventures further west to Marovo Lagoon and Mbulo Island. This 10 night liveaboard adventure allows up to 30 dives including several night dives (depending on conditions).

With unspoiled and undiscovered reefs, caverns, walls, wrecks, pinnacles, coral gardens, WWII wrecks, macro species such as pygmy seahorses and nudibranchs, plus scores of reef fish, mantas, numerous sharks, and even pilot whales!

WWII Wreck Week – 7 night itinerary (Honiara – Honiara)
Besides being renowned as a pristine dive destination with flourishing marine life, the Solomon Islands were the setting for some of the most intense battles of WWII due to its strategic location near Australia. Beginning in 1942 with the Japanese invasion of Guadalcanal, and the Allied response with the Battle of Guadacanal (codename Operation Watchtower) throughout 1943, the Solomon Islands Campaign was a major strategy of the Pacific War of WWII. This was the first major offensive by the Allied forces against the Empire of Japan, and is considered a major turning point, along with the Battle of Midway, of the Pacific War.

WWII Wrecks includes some of the best wrecks of the Russell Islands, Florida Islands, and around Honiara. Wrecks on this itinerary are all within recreational limits and there will often be two or more dives on a single site, providing time to properly explore the wrecks. This 7 night liveaboard adventure allows up to 22 dives including several night dives (depending on conditions).

Guadalcanal and the Western Province – 7 night itinerary (Honiara – Munda)
Guadalcanal and the Western Province journeys between Honiara and the Russell Islands to New Georgia island. This 7 night liveaboard adventure allows up to 22 dives including several night dives (depending on conditions).

There are numerous unspoiled hard and soft corals plus a variety of dive sites ranging from WWII wrecks to caverns to reefs. You will have a chance to see macro species such as pygmy seahorses and nudibranchs, plus scores of reef fish, mantas, numerous sharks, and even pilot whales!

Solomons and PNG Navigator – 10 night itinerary (Munda – Rabaul)
Solomons and PNG Navigator is a pioneering itinerary that ventures along New Britain Island and the rarely visited Bougainville Island of PNG, crossing over to the north western reaches of the Solomon Islands, exploring areas that have rarely, if ever, been visited by divers before. This 10 night liveaboard adventure allows up to 30 dives including several night dives (depending on conditions), with huge marine diversity, from coral covered reefs and steep walls to secretive critters and schools of pelagics.