Because you love diving, you’ll adore the luminous waters and underwater treasures of the New Caledonia lagoon.

The world’s largest lagoon

The world’s largest lagoon stretches round the Grande Ile and the sublime Loyalty Islands. 24,000 km2, protected by a 1,600 km coral reef…

An outstanding diversity of marine fauna

Professional divers from all round the world know that they can find something in New Caledonia that exists practically nowhere else -  waters where they can indulge in their sport without being disturbed, some of the clearest waters on the planet, inhabited by an outstanding diversity of marine fauna - parrotfish, blue rocklings, groupers, leopard rays, reef sharks, tuna, rock lobsters and Spanish lobsters, turtles and dugongs…

All these wonderful creatures live happily amid luxuriant plantlife: caves lush with with bryozoa and sea fans, multiform sponges, multi-coloured corals, in corolla, balls or bushes…

Preserved sites, protected, and very rarely visited

Because you love diving, you can explore preserved sites, protected, and very rarely visited, throughout the archipelago. You can swim through the tranquil transparent lagoon with its impressive peaks of great marine faults… And you can even take your friends or family along; every kind of diving, with or without aqualung, is available to everyone.