Solomon Islands Diving, Gizo - Toa Maru WWII wreck and Grand Central Station

Wreck and reef dive in the Solomons. First dive is at the Toa Maru Japanese wreck, sitting just of the shore of Kalaluka island. The wreck lies in 37m of water and rises to 7m, making it suitable for snorkelling. This wreck was a cargo ship that was torpedoed and sunk by the Americans. The ship is full of history with many artefacts still visible today. You can see old medicine bottles, gas masks, bullets, jars of condoms, tanks, sake bottles, beer bottles, cement bags, timber and more. We descended down from the mooring line (around the bow) to the stern and entered the cargo holds. After checking out the inside, we swam through a salvage hole the native Solomon's people blew open to obtain resources. Second dive is at Grand Central Station, sitting off Njari island. This site is a stunner. Shallow reefs steeply drop down into a wall covered in fans and colourful corals. There is a large feeding cliff where you can use a reef hook in the current, and watch the show of large schools of barracuda, reef sharks, GT's, blue trevally, rays and other large species. As you ascend to the shallow coral reefs, there is still loads to see. Schools of sweetlips, glassy snapper and moorish idols as well as moray eels are all right there to see at the end. Toa Maru Wreck: 44 minutes, 15m viz, 30m max depth Grand Central Station: 53 minutes, 35m viz, 26m max depth