Million Dollar Point
La profundidad indica el rango desde la parte superior del punto hasta su máximo habitual; la "certificación recomendada" es el nivel que los operadores suelen exigir según las principales agencias, no una norma legal. Las corrientes y la visibilidad cambian a diario — considera todo esto como rangos de planificación.
In 1945, when postwar sale negotiations for America's Santo base equipment collapsed, the departing forces drove the lot off the point: bulldozers, six-wheeled trucks, cranes, jeeps, crate after crate, all pushed into the sea. The result is diving's strangest reef. Tires stand in coral like planted rings, gearboxes sprout anemones, and a diver can descend forty years of industrial archaeology from snorkel depth to 30-plus meters. Glassfish own the engine bays; morays own the exhaust pipes. It is comic and mournful at once — a monument to waste that the ocean has spent eighty years quietly redeeming.
El momento por el que vienes: Bulldozers and trucks stacked down the slope; coral colonizing machinery; easy depths that suit any certification.
Topografía: A slope of dumped military equipment — bulldozers, trucks, cranes, forklifts — descending from the shallows past 30 m
Entrada: Beach entry near Luganville over coral rubble; the debris field starts within a few fin kicks.
Lo que debes saber antes de tirarte al agua
Riesgos: Sharp, shifting metal; entanglement in cable and machinery; surge in the shallows on windy days.
Conservación: Protected as an historic site — bottle hunters and souvenir takers have already thinned it; leave every relic where the bulldozers dropped it.
A quién encontrarás
Clownfish & Anemonefish
Common Reef (Day) Octopus
Giant Moray Eel
Lionfish
Nudibranchs
Para fotógrafos
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