Dive Sites
With over 40 dive sites of stunning diversity, Christmas Island has something to suit everyone!
Whether it’s dramatic walls with large, healthy hard corals and fans; cave dives with ‘exit and explore’ options or a scattered wreck from WWII, the visibility is spectacular.
Whatever your fancy, diving here is very relaxing as most of our sites are drift dives that ‘go with the flow’ of the current.
Click on the map to see more details on 5 of our key dive sites:
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Perpendicular Wall
Floating along the swift current, over this fathomless vertical wall, makes you feel like a superhero. A spectacular dive, with columns of butterflyfish, enormous and colourful fan corals and sharks and rays cruising by in the blue. -
Thundercliff Cave
The dive outside is a gorgeous coral garden, guarded by flocks of friendly batfish that really couldn’t get any closer. When the tide is right, follow the tunnel into the large cathedral cave within; surface and leave your gear behind to explore the wonders within. -
The Morgue
A field of bombies on a bed of sand cover the gentle slope down to the more dramatic drop-off at around 25m. Cruise slowly exploring the nooks and crannies and you will be rewarded with the delicate Blue Ribbon Eels and their offspring, among countless other eels, nudibranchs and fish. -
Eidsvold Wreck
Sunk by a Japanese submarine in WWII, the Norwegian phosphate ship, Eidsvold, was scuttled in the Cove and later dragged around Smith Point to its final resting place. Half of the structure is accessible at 5-18m depth, the rest went over the edge and lies somewhere in the deep below. Now home to a healthy coral colony and squillions of colourful tropical fish, the remains of this old hulk is a very interesting site to explore.
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Ryan’s Ravine
One of the few vertical walls on the Eastern side of the island, Ryan’s Ravine is short and sweet, with beautiful whips, fans and soft corals a favourite haunt of the sea turtles who live and feed around the island.
