Santo and the Coolidge wreck

It was an honour to return to Santo recently to dive the SS Coolidge wreck again. Vanuatu has long been a special place for me. It was the first place where I really sank my teeth into technical diving. At age 21, I moved to this South Pacific Island nation and worked as a dive master. On the island of Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu’s northern and largest Island, I learnt what it meant to dive deep, exceeding my no decompression limits and amounting long decompression stops.

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Pacific Dive is a fantastic dive operation in Luganville. The local Ni-Van boys take great pride in the Coolidge and make incredible guides, accruing tens of thousands of dives collectively on the wreck over the years.

I stayed at The Espirtu which was nothing short of fantastic; a multigenerational hotel that provides warm hospitality and incredible food.

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