Dive info

Charapoana Island is 1.8 km long raised coral reef, covered in thick rainforest, approx. 45 min. motorized canoe ride from Seghe airport, through the longest island enclosed lagoon complex in the world and renowned as world class dive location. Charapoana Island Resort offers unlimited, customized, world-class diving in a tropical paradise setting.

Nudibranch	Caves and tunnels

There are potentially hundreds of dive sites, offering incredible topographic and marine life diversity. From the spectacular house reef to breathtaking drop-offs and slopes, coral gardens and lagoonal coral bommies, all at your doorstep.

Charapoana Drift is a dive not to be missed. The currents move gently and you can stop without too much difficulty to take pictures or make a closer inspection of large gorgonians, huge amphora baskets, soft coral trees and hard corals. School of trevally, rainbow runners, barracuda, mackerel, tuna, sharks and an abundance of reef fish including basslets, surgeons, butterfly cods and angelfish.

For the hard corals, Landoro Gardens must have one of the largest selections. Landoro Gardens contrasts with the steep dropoffs of other sites, as the terrain changes to rolling hills of hard and soft corals.

Nearby Elbow Caves have a series of intriguing crevices, ledges and caverns cutting deeply into the sheer wall, providing homes for a wide variety of reef creatures.

Charapoana passage

One of the best dives is Charapoana Point. The slope is covered in gorgonians, sea whips, soft coral and sponges and providing a stage for a procession of pelagics, including sharks, trevally, jacks and schooling barracuda.

Charapoana-Ngoete dive is another perfect and easy shore dive. Just wade in and drift on an oncoming tide.

Among the most favourite dives is Mongo Passage, where vigorous currents propel huge volumes of water through a narrow gap in the outer barrier reef.

Beyond Charapoana are many other excellent sites. One of the most interesting of these is a WW II plane wreck, a P-38 Lightning. In only 25 feet, the twin-engine fighter is just of Seghe airport.

Dive Equipment

Although we recommend to all our guests to bring their own equipment, however tanks and weights are provided. The rest and other equipment can be rented for optional activities. Necessary to bring along your "Dive Certificate" and DAN or equivalent evacuation insurance.

We are organizing dive services and expeditions through a dive operator in our area, who is a Scuba Schools International (SSI) facility.

38 US$ per single dive (shore or boat). This includes the tank & weight belt with weights, boats and driver plus qualified dive leader. Custom dive fees are incurred for any dives away from Charapoana Island Resort and other localities as an extra cost.

Jabule fishing

Gear Hire

The long term rate (more than 4 days) for all gear except computer is $18/day.