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Follow THIS LINK to the combined PNG landbased AND Liveaboard trips to request to be added to the NOTIFY WHEN OPEN FOR BOOKING LISTS FOR THE LAND AND THE LIVEABOARD TRIPS! 
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Location: Bismark Sea, Papua New Guinea
Dates: Apr 22/23 - May 3, 2027 Tufi Resort Landbased
May 3-12, 2027 Liveaboard MV Oceania
Water Temp: Mid 80's
Air Temp: 86-90F Day and 73-75 Night
Current: Some sites have minimal current and some may have current (we will try to avoid as much as possible but it can't always be accomplished)
Visibility: Up to 150ft
Experience Level:
Moderate skills required. AOWD or equivalent. Good buoyancy needed to not damage the magnificent reefs.
Known For:
Lots of bio diversity. Amazing hard and soft corals, schools of jacks and barracuda, sharks to pigmy seahorses, a diver's dream come true. Add to this incredible diving all the AMAZING cultural experiences Tufi also has a snorkeling boat and a magnificent house reef that you can dive, snorkel, kayak or swim. Tufi and Papua New Guinea has it all.
Need To Know:
- This trip will be opened early for booking as everyone going must obtain a paper visa which requires a 2 month turn around time from making application to getting your visa back. Therefore we will need to book this trip earlier than usual to ensure that everyone has plenty of time to get their visas. SD.com will help you with the important step after you have booked.
- It is not easy to get to PNG so at this time this is the only trip we have scheduled for this unique destination.
- We will be booking many of the legs of this trip for you with the help of our air consolidator in Australia who specializes in this region
- There are safety concerns if you get off the beaten path so ALL our arrangements will be as a group with carefully selected 'group hotels' you will need to stay at to diminish extraneous and unnecessary risk. We appreciate you allowing us to help us all be safer.
Pricing:
LANDBASED TRIP PKG PRICING Apr 23-May 3, 2027:
- Deluxe d/o: 10 nites 24 boat dives unlimited shore diving all meals - approx $4500 (cash)
- Deluxe s/o: 10 nites 24 boat dives unlimited shore diving all meals - approx $5600 (cash)
LIVEABOARD TRIP PKG PRICING May 3-12, 2027:
- Deluxe Cabin d/o: 10 days estimated $5990 (cash) less $175 off if doing only boat and $300 off if doing land and boat with early booking discounts
- Deluxe Cabin d/o bed share: 10 days estimated $5990 (cash)less $175 off if doing only boat and $300 off if doing land and boat with early booking discounts
- Deluxe Cabin s/o: 10 days estimated $11,980 (cash)... the boat does not offer any break on single occupancy, so we will offer as much discount as we can in our early booking specials. less $400 off if doing boat only and $800 off if doing land and boat less $350 off if doing only boat and $600 off if doing land and boat as s/o with early booking discounts
MV Oceania (liveaboard) Kimbe Bay is home to stunning reefs with those brilliant coral formations you see in all the classic Walindi pics. Beautiful and dramatic sea mounts, coral laden walls and lush coral gardens are all a feature of Kimbe Bay diving, along with myriad fish and invertebrate life the reefs sustain.
- Witu Islands are a group of islands, volcanic in origin, situated to the north west of Kimbe Bay. The diving is a mixture of sea mounts rising from deep waters to within metres of the surface (such as Lama shoals), beautiful coral arches and great night dives in the black sand bays of the islands. Lots of interaction with the locals trading fresh fruit and veg out of their canoes too.
- Fathers Reefs are a series of off-shore reefs, also volcanic in origin. The underwater topography is startlingly different with dramatic reefscapes, arches and swim-throughs. Being offshore, these reefs also attract pelagic activity such as sharks, rays, turtle, schools of barracuda and jacks, etc.
