Nusa Island Retreat, a lovely island just off the coast of Kavieng in northern PNG, offers an environmentally aware and low impact facility set within a truly beautiful pacific paradise location. The Retreat also provides personalised service, excellent meals, a variety of guest activities, nature walks and a look into local culture for the interested. Other than its friendly locals the island is host to beautiful natural flora and fauna

The Retreat is set on an idyllic sandy point, enjoys harbour / island views and has quick access to nearby Kavieng township.  It is an unspoilt location, central to a smorgasbord of activities.
  
The central beachfront restaurant offers a fully licensed bar and has 270 degree views of Kavieng Harbour. The food is tasty, innovative and features plenty of fresh local seafood, vegetables and fruit.

While the diving is the main attraction here, it’s also a great place for fishing and surfing.  There are island an jungle walks to do, WWII relics to explore and a host of other activities for non diving days.

The Diving

Kavieng is known for its current swept passages, rich aquatic life and big Pelagic action, but also has a wide variety of different dives to choose from:  plunging walls and precipitous drop offs, patch reefs, fringing reefs, macro  dives, muck dives  and WWII wrecks. Recent exploration has uncovered a new Japanese plane wreck, 2 ship wrecks, a barge carrying WW II equipment and a more recent fishing vessel . What ever your diving interest it’s here in Kavieng.

Scuba Ventures offers a full range of diving services; dive charters, guided snorkelling excursions, gear hire, camera hire, slide shows, gear servicing, retail and a full range of NAUI and PADI dive courses.

Scuba Ventures has three Dive Boats, each equipped with full safety gear, suncover and ladder seat for easy boat entry.

Some of the more popular Dive Sites are:

Ecucha Patch & the Der Yang

A large coral ridge rising to within 15m from the surface and sloping down to 50m in open water, close to Nusa Island. A Taiwanese fishing vessel, the Der Yang, scuttled by fisheries in 1988, rests on her starboard side on top of the ridge covered in colourful soft corals, makes for an interesting dive.

Blow Holes

An eroded limestone formation close to Nusa, Caverns and overhangs covered in soft yellow corals. Sleeping white tip reef sharks, lobsters and Queensland groupers are often found here.

Albatross Passage

A narrow channel between Baudissin and New Ireland. This passage sucks pelagics and reef fish between and into its narrow flanks as the tide rushes in and out. Big Eye Trevally, Spanish Mackerel, Tuna, Barracuda, Reef Sharks, Turtles and Rays are often spotted here. Small creatures like pygmy seahorses and nudibranchs are also commonly found. The wall is overgrown with big fans, black corals and colorful soft corals. This spot is like a big Amphitheatre. A number of dives are possible in this area. A Truly spectacular dive.

B25 Mitchell Bomber

This plane lies in 12m of water in the mangroves close to Albatross Channel.  Badly damaged and broken up, it lies on a silty bottom.

3 X Japanese Aichi E13A type Zero "Jake"
Mitsubishi F1M Type Zero "Pete" BI-Plane
4 WWII aircraft lying in Kavieng Harbour, a must for aircraft enthusiasts.

Steffen Strait

Big fish diving is possible on any of several patch reefs just outside the entrance to the main shipping channel into Kavieng, but watch out for strong currents. Helmuts Reef lies in the middle, sloping down to about 50m, and here Gorgonian fans, Jacks, and Reef sharks are abundant. Peter's Patch is another reef in the strait that has a mixture of plate corals, sea fans and whips on the slopes. Golden cowries have been spotted at this site

Planet Channel & Eagle Ray Pass

One of the most fantastic areas for diving near Kavieng. This site has a truly remarkable variety and concentration of flora and fauna. Part of this passage is also called Eagle Ray Pass with strong current running through this narrow channel eagle rays are almost guarantied.

Lemus Island

This dive is made on the Southern point of Lemus Island. Fantastic Hard Coral Gardens in the shallows and Gorgonian fan covered ridges at 20-30m where pelagics congregate when a current is present. A Very pleasant drift dive.

One of the best Macro dives that Kavieng has to offer. Hard Corals, sand and sea grass beds are waiting to be explored. Nudibranchs, shells, elusive frog fish and ghost pipe fish have been seen here.

2 Unidentified Japanese WWII wrecks & a more recent fishing boat wreck

Recent exploration has resulted in the exciting discovery of 3 as yet unidentified ship wrecks in Kavieng Harbour. These wrecks are now home to interesting marine life and shoals of Pelagic & Reef fish. Not to be missed by the wreck enthusiasts.