Million Dollar Point
La profondeur indique la plage entre le sommet du site et son maximum habituel ; le « niveau de certification recommandé » correspond au niveau généralement demandé par les opérateurs selon les agences grand public, et non à une règle légale. Les courants et la visibilité varient chaque jour — considérez toutes ces informations comme des estimations de planification.
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.
Le moment pour lequel vous venez: Bulldozers and trucks stacked down the slope; coral colonizing machinery; easy depths that suit any certification.
Topographie: A slope of dumped military equipment — bulldozers, trucks, cranes, forklifts — descending from the shallows past 30 m
Entrée: Beach entry near Luganville over coral rubble; the debris field starts within a few fin kicks.
À savoir avant de plonger
Dangers: Sharp, shifting metal; entanglement in cable and machinery; surge in the shallows on windy days.
Conservation: Protected as an historic site — bottle hunters and souvenir takers have already thinned it; leave every relic where the bulldozers dropped it.
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Pour les photographes
Grand angle: ★★★★★ · Macro: ★★★☆☆ — note 1–5 des éditeurs sur ce que ce site offre à chaque style de prise de vue