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

67mm lens Adaptor for Panasonic / Lumix Housings: Price: $AU 76.00

Gallery

Frogfish Portrait

Lionfish 2

Articles

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.

Madang Madness: by DanielaB; How in god's name could "HE" have created such wonderful place and then kept it hidden away from all us mortals for so long? The crystal clear water, schools of big fish and warm tropical days all concealed from the world simply by a 12-hr flight back in time.