Big Blue Vanuatu

Big Blue Vanuatu

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Big Blue Dive Vanuatu is a top PADI 5-Star Dive Centre in Port Vila, proudly Ni-Vanuatu owned. Let's go Diving!

From first bubbles to pro training, our friendly team is here to help you dive into adventure, explore vibrant reefs, and protect what we love.

26/08/2026

Meet the humbug damselfish. Its entire world is one coral head.

Those little black and white fish over the staghorn are not passing through. The whole group lives in that one coral, feeds on plankton in the water just above it, and drops back into the branches the second anything comes close.

Next dive, hover a metre off a branching coral patch and hold still. Give it a minute and they come back out around you.

Tag the buddy you want spotting these with you.

Morning double dives run every day except Monday.
Call or WhatsApp +678 5544054
or email [email protected]



24/08/2026

Take only photos, leave only bubbles.

Here are ten reef hazards worth knowing how to spot. Not reasons to stay out of the water, just things worth being able to recognise, because knowing what you’re looking at is what keeps your hands, your fins and the reef out of trouble.

The golden rule is the easy part: if you didn’t bring it down with you, don’t touch it.

Learn to spot them, keep your buoyancy tidy, and leave only: 🫧🫧🫧🫧🫧🫧🫧🫧🫧🫧🫧🫧🫧🫧🫧🫧🫧🫧🫧 (bubbles)

Come dive with us and we’ll teach you the rest!

21/08/2026

Five dives takes you from 18 metres to 30.

That's Advanced Open Water. Deep and Navigation, then three you pick yourself. No pool, no final exam, just two days of diving with an instructor beside you.

That's Cathy up there. She teaches this one.

Save this one, and tag the buddy who's due an upgrade.

PADI Advanced Open Water, 59,500vt over two days.
Open Water certified, 12 and up.
Book on 5544054 or [email protected]

Photos from Big Blue Vanuatu's post 19/08/2026

Best free show on the reef 🐟

Find a coral head with a little cleaner wrasse working it and you've found a cleaning station. One wrasse can get through a couple of thousand customers in a day.

Don't park on it. Hang back a couple of metres, get level, stop finning, give it a minute.

They go back to work, and you get to watch fish far bigger than them hold still, open up and let something the size of your finger swim right in.


Boat dives every day except Mondays.
Give us a ring on +678 5544054 or email [email protected]

17/08/2026

Blue spotted rays breathe through the top of their heads.

Look just behind the eye. That opening is called a spiracle. The mouth and gills sit underneath, flat against the seabed, so the ray draws clean water in through the top and pushes it out through the gills below.

That is how it can lie still on the sand all night without taking in a mouthful of it.

Found resting on the sand on a night dive.

Save this for your next dive and tag the buddy who always spots the rays first.

Night dives run year round. Call +678 5544054 or email [email protected]

14/08/2026

Know someone who would love diving and just hasn't tried it yet?

Discover Scuba is where it starts. A bit of pool time to get comfortable, then a real reef dive with a PADI instructor next to you the whole way. A lot of people come up from that one already asking about the next.

No license, no experience. If you can swim and you're 10 or over, you're in.

Tag the person you have in mind, or surprise them and put a gift card in their hands instead.

Discover Scuba Dive from 15,500vt, gear included. Gift cards available for any dive or course, just call +678 5544054 or email [email protected]


Photos from Big Blue Vanuatu's post 12/08/2026

Look up more 👀🪸

Overhangs, ledges, under the table corals. Anything with a bit of a roof on it usually has something living on the ceiling, and we all swim past at eye level and miss it.

So get low, hover off it a bit, and look up. Feather stars, pipefish, shrimp, soldierfish. None of that is visible from above.

Have a look, don't touch, carry on.

Tag whoever you're diving with next.

Boat dives daily, single dive 1 to 3pm. Give us a ring on +678 5544054 or email [email protected]

11/08/2026

Leopard shark at Cathedral. 🦈

Our diver Marcus caught this one on camera a few weeks back and shared the video with us today. These guys are harmless, gorgeous, and not something you see every day out here.

Save this for your next dive wishlist. 📌

Book a dive with us: +678 5544054 / [email protected]

10/08/2026

This little reef fish sleeps buried in the sand.

The bright orange baby up top is a young yellowtail coris. At night, and any time it feels threatened, it dives headfirst into the sand and vanishes completely until the coast is clear. It also grows into the spotted, yellow-tailed adult below, so the baby and the grown-up barely look like the same fish.

Next time you're over a sandy patch, watch closely. That flash of orange might disappear right in front of you.

Book a dive with us: +678 5544054 or [email protected]

07/08/2026

Be the one who knows exactly what to do.

Emergency First Response is CPR and first aid made simple, and it's useful far beyond diving. At the dive site, at home or at work, you'll know how to step in and help with confidence until the pros take over.

Open to everyone, no diving needed. It's also the first aid training that sets you up for your Rescue Diver course down the track.

Save this and tag the mate who should do it with you.

Ask us about the next class:
Call or WhatsApp +678 5544054 or email [email protected].

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Seafront
Port-Vila
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Opening Hours

Monday 08:00 - 16:00
Tuesday 08:00 - 16:00
Wednesday 08:00 - 16:00
Thursday 08:00 - 16:00
Friday 08:00 - 16:00
Saturday 08:00 - 16:00
Sunday 08:00 - 16:00