Kabaira Dive - Rabaul

Kabaira Dive is situated on the north coast side of Rabaul, an hour scenic drive from New Rabaul Airport, Tokua. With good clean accommodation for up to 8 divers and a separate Dining/Lounge house for relaxing in between dives and enjoying the home style meals with the natural sounds of the village and waves washing on the beach.

Dives are done from either land or boat, sometimes both. The boat used is a 23ft open banana boat with shade and an 85 hp engine. Dive equipment supplied is limited to 5 sets (BCD,Regulator,computer). Fins masks are on hand but adviseable to bring own gear for personal comfort.

Affiliation:

PADI

Training Level:

Dive Master

Boat Description:

23ft open banana boat with shade powered by 85 hp engine.

Sites Visited:

Reef dives - Flat worms, nudibranchs, pelagics, sharks, schooling fish general marine life. Soft corals and hard corals, fans with pigmy sea horses.

Walls - endless drop offs with overhangs. Fans, barrel sponges, small corals

WW2 wreck dives - 120 feet mine laying boat encrusted with corals, mitsubishi bi-plane, Japanese zero with variety of scorpian fish, nudibranchs, shrimp.

Facilities:

Scuba hire
Own accommodation
Showers

Diving seven days
Own Boat(s)

Shopfront

Mirage Dive Slate: Price: $AU 9.95

Gallery

Fangblenny

Unidentified Cowrie

Articles

Diving Papua New Guinea - Milne Bay: by Chris Bartlett; It is one of the few places left in the world where a diver can see macro critters, pelagics, and big stuff, as well as fantastic soft and hard corals. The often misused and abused adjective “pristine” is actually appropriate here, due to low fishing pressure in the area in comparison to other areas of the Coral Triangle, no dynamite fishing, and thanks to a system implemented by dive resorts whereby local reef "owners" receiving a small fee for every diver that visits "their" reef. As a result elders make sure that the reefs are not fished.

Diving Papua New Guinea - New Ireland: by Chris Bartlett; Part two of a series of three article about diving in Papua New Guinea. Two hours flight north-east of Port Moresby, with a 10-minute stop in West New Britain near the site of PNG’s last volcanic eruption, lies Kavieng, the capital of New Ireland province.