Santo Diving – the SS President Coolidge

Santo diving offers great access to some of the world’s best reefs and underwater caves, plus two of the world’s most accessible shipwrecks. On the reefs, and in the underwater caves, you can see hundreds of colourful and interesting fish.

Wreck and reef diving in Santo is suitable for divers of any ability, provided they have completed basic training.Great reef dives can be found in most areas of the coastline. Dive operators tend to stick to the south-east coast, where you can find the wrecks of the SS President Coolidge and the USS Tucker and an area known as ‘Million Dollar Point’.

For anyone diving on the island of Santo, Vanuatu, the SS President Coolidge and the USS Tucker wreck dives are just meters from the Vanuatu coastline and both are highly accessible. Both wrecks are American ships that during World War II.

The worlds biggest accessible wreck dive, the SS President Coolidge is a American luxury liner that was converted to a US troop ship during the second world war. It sank just meters from the shore and is the premium dive in Santo. Novices can dive the main bulk of the ship, and more experienced divers can go deeper into the wreck to look at life on the inside.

The SS Tucker was an American destroyer stationed in Vanuatu during the second world war. It was accidently sunk by one of the USA’s own mines, and now it too lies just offshore.

Diving the relatively shallow Million Dollar Point, divers can see huge areas of military war surplus that was simply dumped into the ocean when the Americans left Vanuatu at the end of WWII. This Santo dive includes ammunition boxes, military vehicles and the odd bulldozer – items which make this one the most popular sites when diving in Santo.

Santo Diving

Santo dives include two of the world’s most accessible shipwrecks, the USS President Coolidge and the USS Tucker. Plus, on the reefs and in the underwater caves you can see hundreds of colourful and interesting fish.

Great reef dives can be found around most of the Santo coastline. Dive operators tend to stick to the south-east coast, the location of the world war II wrecks of the SS President Coolidge and the USS Tucker and an area known as ‘Million Dollar Point’. Wreck and reef diving is suitable for divers of any ability who have completed basic training.

These two quality wreck dives are just meters from the Vanuatu coast, both highly accessible to those diving on the island of Santo.

An American luxury liner converted to a US troop ship during the second world war, the SS President Coolidge sank just meters from the shore and is the premium dive in Santo. Novices can dive the main bulk of the ship, whereas more experienced divers can go deeper into the wreck to look at life on the inside.

The SS Tucker, an American destroyer that was stationed in Vanuatu during the second world war, is the second wreck. Unfortunately it was accidently sunk by one of the USA’s own mines, and now it too lies just offshore, close enough to be accessible to those diving in Santo.

When diving the relatively shallow Million Dollar Point, divers can see large areas of military war surplus that was simply dumped into the ocean when the Americans left Vanuatu at the end of the war. This Santo dive includes military vehicles and even the odd bulldozer – making it one the most popular Santo diving sites.