Absolute Fishing
With world renowned fishing at your doorstep, don’t miss out on this adventure! A Full or ½ day ( 4 – 5hrs ) day scouring the seas for the big one. Only a stones throw away and we are in game fishing territory where you have the chance of catching mahi mahi, wahoo, dog tooth or yellowfin tuna, GT’s or even a marlin!! With a great boat crew on hand, this is light to medium game fishing at its best. Take your fresh catch back to the resort where it will be cooked to your liking – complimentary.
Absolute Scuba Diving
Coral Quays Resort is a SSI Dive facility, (No 731476), offering Introduction/Try dives, and boat dives on exclusive reefs only accessed by us, and select wrecks around Santo.Also on offer at our SSI facility, is high quality new scuba diving equipment for hire, & tank fills.
Our Resort SSI Dive Instructor is qualified as the most versatile instructor on Santo, offering Scuba Diving (Open water to Tech diving), Free Diving (Level 1), Snorkeling adventures, Game Fishing adventures, along with the safety aspects of CPR/First Aid, and oxygen provider instruction.
Coral Quays Resort is the one and only Resort Dive Centre on the island of Santo, where you can do intro dives using the pool, and then dive off our private jetty and beach, utilising our the fantastic water frontage.
Coral Quays Resort offers the most air on the island of Santo, by way of using 13.1 litre scuba cylinders.
REEF DIVES : (Exclusive to Absolute Diving CQR)
Pulon Reef: Distance from the jetty 55-60mins
This is an excellent opportunity to dive a virgin reef only recently discovered and dived. The dive is started on the south side of Tangoa island where you will follow the wall along and swim through a series small caves and swim throughs or spend your time cruising over the plate coral fields, then head along the wall and take in the beautiful topography in about 10-20m of water Parrot fish and giant travelly are commonly seen here .
Mal Mal Point: Distance from jetty 40-45mins
This exceptional reef dive on the point of an uninhabited tropical island is known for the schools of big eye travelly that can be found here as well as passing giant travelly and dog tooth tuna.
In the shallows you can cruise around swim throughs and small caves filled with life or head a little deeper to the edge of the reef where Grey reef sharks and other small reef sharks might be curious enough to let you capture their beauty on camera. With countless varieties of corals slow cruisey diving is key to this dive.
This dive is 10-21m deep with an expansive variety of corals and fish life.
Ratarata Reef: Distance from jetty 40mins
This vein of reef pops up two to three hundred meters offshore rising from 45m up to 3m of depth, Ratarata has plenty to see, frequented by schools of rainbow runners, barracuda’s, GT’s, trevally, green sea & hawks beak turtles, countless parrotfish and reef sharks. Open to the sea this reef is abundant in fish life and stunning corals, hard and soft corals, stag horn, plate, brain, and fan corals can be found on the sea side of the majestic bombies. a dive not to be missed.
Blossom Bay: Distance from jetty 15-20mins
With small crevices and swim throughs this dive site is a fantastic choice as a second dive as time can be spent up in the shallows. This dive is great for beginners and inexperienced divers, along with experienced divers with minimal current, located in the stunning Blossom Bay, which is sheltered by the easterly winds.
Max depth of 15 -18 metres, which allows for stunning coral colours of all shapes and sizes, along with various size and different fish life.
REEF DIVES : (others).
Tutuba Point: Distance from jetty 45-50min.
This stunning reef is on the Eastern point of Tutuba island located at the eastern entrance into the Segond channel varying from 5m-25m depth and having any where from 20m-40m+ visibility this beautiful reef extends along the coastline of the island, a world class reef with magnificent plate coral fields, there is a seemingly endless variety of soft and hard corals, there are swim troughs and gloomy trenches and caves in which if you are lucky you can spot lobsters guarding their homes, above you schools of tropical fish cruise around going about their business, this dive is a brilliant opportunity to see some of the untouched reefs that surround the island of Santo
Chails Reef: Distance from jetty 35-40min
This reef is located on the northern edge of Tutuba island extending from 8m-21m with awesome visibility ranging from 15m-40m+ this reef offers all different types of corals there are bommies that loom up in the shallower water with clown fish playing in the anenomies and in the deeper water there is clumps of Staghorn Corals with brilliant colors, brain corals are also feature a lot on this reef.
Chances of seeing resident turtles and passing barracudas is high.
Cindy's Reef: Distance from jetty 20-25min
Cindy's reef sit just off the eastern point off Aore island directly south of the SS President Coolidge.
This is a brilliant reef with beautiful colors and variety of fish life. Zebra / Leopard sharks can be seen here on occasion. Nice and easy diving with good visibility Cindy's reef is an excellent choice of a dive
WRECK DIVES
USS Tucker. (US Destroyer) Distance from our jetty 20-25min.
This WWII wreck is one of the less explored in Santo and sits on a fantastic reef. Another casualty from friendly fire the USS Tucker went down just off the island of Malo. Over the years she has broken into three main pieces the bow, the mid section engine blocks, and the stern spread over a hundred meters of reef or so the depths found on this wreck are 14-21m. A must do when in Santo.
Tui Tawaite. (Marine Tug) Distance from our jetty 10min.
The Tui Twaite is a tug boat heroic in the historic Wahenni ferry incedent in New Zealand. She found herself in Santo pumping fuel and oil out of the sunken President Coolidge, following a leak that could have been, and was a ecological disaster for Luganville, and the Segond Canal. She is 40m long and now rests up right in the middle of Segond Canal straight off our jetty, sitting in 40-45m of water this is a fantastic dive for the experienced diver looking for something a bit different than the Coolidge.
Submarine Nets (Shore Dive)
Located directly off Coral Quays Resort’s jetty is the remains of WWII submarine nets placed by the American troops to protect Luganville from the Japanese mini Sub threat.
Mini subs no longer being a threat these steel nets have collapsed and over the passed 70 years have turned into an abundant artificial reef. A very interesting dive.
President Coolidge
If you are wanting to dive on the President Coolidge, please speak to the Resort Dive Instructor, Mr Michael Batcock who is a “SSI Dive Instructor #52001 (DG, DM, DCS, AI, AOWI, SPI)” for all the information you may require, as Michael has done in excess of 400 dives on the President Coolidge as a Instructor and guide.
Our Dive Instructor can advise on the safest and best options reqarding diving the Coolidge, and is happy to assist you in any way.
Note: If you are a beginner or inexperienced, come dive with us, we will ensure you are fully capable to then go onto the great big wreck, with the right wreck dive operator.
Absolute Snorkelling - ( by boat)
Turtle Island - The ultimate in Exclusivity
Cruise the Segond Canal and visit the very private Turtle Island. Have the whole island ot yourselves for the day. Enjoy a picnic lunch on the white sands beach. Snorkel the shallow reefs and swim the gorgeous turquoise water. Just relax and wile the time away with your partner of family. Get away from the world and enjoy true serenity. We drop you off by boat, then you are free to enjoy the island for a few hours before we cruise back to pick you up. We will slowly make our way back to San Michel Bay.
Duration: 4-5 hours.
Blossom Bay – Stunning Snorkelling
In addition to the wonderful snorkeling directly off our private jetty!, Cruise the Segond Canal past the coconut plantations of Aore, natural beauty of Malo and pristine beaches of Aore Island to the shelter of Blossom Bay. Here you can relax on the sandy beach for a light snack & cool drink before diving in and exploring the crevices and dive throughs of this world class snorkeling spot just off the shore.
Next we head to a small blue lagoon for a bit of site seeing before venturing back past the many fresh water inlets to Coral Quays Fish & Dive resort.
Duration: 3-4 hours
Turtle Island & Blossom Bay combo
Combine the blossom bay snorkelling tour with the turtle island stay. Snorkel then chill on the beach. Duration 4-5 hrs
Absolute Boating
Island Tours
Why not hire the boat for a half or full day, with our skipper and tour around the islands by sea, stop at a small secluded beach for a swim and picnic. There are many beautiful Islands along the way including Aore, Malo, Turtle, Belmol, Bokiss, Tutuba, Ratua, experience isolated bays, reefs and the beauty of Islands with 5 – 20 mins from Coral Quays Resort.
Duration ½ or Full day charters available.
Segond Canal Tours
Experience the Segond Canal from the water, cruise down Santo’s coast line and sight see the town of Luganville and its port, then across to Aore Island, along the North side of the island – gaze at the private waterfront homes, coconut plantation & beaches. Go through the Malo passage, across to Santo and back along the coast where freshwater river run into the Segond Canal before returning to Coral Quays Resort jetty.
Duration 2 hrs
