Havannah Harbour

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

‘Warmo’s Bommie’ (Advanced / Deep Dive Certification)   Shore Dive

‘Warmo’s bommie’ is a nice cruisy dive as we follow the reef to the right from Critter Spotter Hub. Making a stop at the safety stop to see our regular anemone fish and maybe a few (sexy) shrimps, making our way down to 14mts to look for resident leafy scorpion fish, not always there as they can be hard to spot so it may take some time to find them. From here we head down towards Warmo’s Bommie, the top is around 20mts and the bottom around 33mts. We can find some interesting critters here, from scorpion fish, glass fish, several species of moray eels, plenty of coral cod, several species of cleaner shrimps and much more depending on the day of the dive. Circumnavigate this bommie as we slowly come to around near the top. Make our way towards 18mts to view the mushroom coral which can have some lovely Porcelain crabs and Anemone shrimps. Depending on time and air we can follow along towards some lovely large anemones, tube anemones, the yellow gardens and much more. Coming back around 10mts to see if we can see some octopus, spiny devil fish, moray eels and much more.

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The Spire (Advanced or open water certification)             Shore Dive

Unfortunately, after the devastating earthquake from December the 17th 2024 ‘The Spire’ no longer exists. We found the middle section at around 40mts and the rest much further down. Part of the dive still exists with part of ‘Nudi Rock’, where we will almost be guaranteed to see different types of nudibranchs, including the Halgerda carlsoni, where we are lucky enough to have a small colony which only inhabitant there. Incredibly difficult to spot but a joy to find.

 

We head back towards the shore coming to 12 to 15mts, where we find anemone fish and the odd turtle. Coming back from our dive as we are shallower, we may swim with the silver monos, and long jawed mackerel. Before we finish our dive at the safety stop, drop in to see if we can find any spiny devil fish. Check out our coral restoration garden.​​​​

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Hawksbill Turtle Reef (open water certification)              Shore Dive

Hawksbill Turtle Reef is another nice cruisy dive as we follow the reef to the right (North) from the Critter Spotter Hub. Making a stop at the safety stop to see our regular anemone fish and coral restoration garden. We make our way down to 14mts to view where we find the well camouflaged leafy scorpion fish, they are always around but they can be hard to spot, so all eyes on board. We cruise around 14mts to 17mts where we find some lovely different anemones and anemone fish. On this dive site we quite regularly see our resident turtles, crocodile fish, moray eels, plenty of different fish life including angel fish, puffer fish, trigger fish, glass fish and much more. We come along to see the yellow gardens, and feather tube anemones. We still find today Coca Cola bottles from World War II, the islands served as bases for allied forces in the Pacific. The original Coca Cola bottles had been thrown overboard from American battleships and aircraft carriers sheltered in the harbour. We head back to the safety stop and our lovely dive comes to an end as we search for spiny devil fish which are found in the shallows.

 

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Dave’s Mooring (open water certification)   Shore Dive

We meet at Karma Waters Critter Spotter Hub and travel a few kms down the road where we do a shore dive. As we head out to Dave’s Mooring the coral is only at 3mts depth as we swim over the beautiful coral gardens with plenty of fish life. As we get closer to the drop off, we will start to see the red bass as they swim around us and follow us during our dive. From here we head down to 18mts where there is a lovely whip coral that is over 4mts long which has some whip coral goby’s swimming up and down to make it interesting.  We make our way following along the shore and come to coral gardens, the tree of life, anemones and anemone fish, we may see turtles here, yellow coral gardens and much more, a very pretty dive. This site was damaged after cyclone Pam but has recovered quite nicely.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Havannah Vanuatu  (open or advanced certification)   shore Dive

This is a specialized dive site for those that are staying in house at The Havannah Resort. A nice shore dive right from the front of your accommodation. As we slowly head out, we pass over a sandy stretch as we make our way towards the reef, a seagrass area where we may encounter dugongs. This dive site depending on the level of certification, has some amazing features, for the advanced divers we can make our way down to around 23mts to see the old chandelier, which was blown in from cyclone Pam in 2015. Most of the rest of the dive will be around 13 to 18mts where we have large feather worms, plenty of fish life and corals. A really nice dive site which was not affected too much by the cyclones and crown of thorns.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Conservation Dive (open or advanced certification)              Shore Dive

Come along on one of our dive locations and make a difference, help retrieve any rubbish that may be floating or sitting on the bottom of the ocean floor. Some still from the cyclones which is taking many months to clear. We also look at the damage that has been done by crown of thorns starfish and cyclones and how the diversity of the eco-system changes from these natural disasters. Check out the reefs and fish life along the way.