Solomon Islands Dive “Fest”
There are many destinations around the world that both recreational and technical divers routinely visit to dive a treasure-trove of shipwrecks, such as Truk Lagoon, North Carolina, Scapa Flow, the Red Sea, and more. Now the Visitors Bureau of the Solomon Islands is reminding divers across the world that its tropical waters showcase a vast number of important World War II wrecks throughout its 900+ islands and nine provinces as it hosted its second Dive Fest in the last quarter of 2017, highlighting the 75th anniversary of the Battle for Guadalcanal.
From the battles of Guadalcanal to Bougainville, the Allied forces in 1942 started pushing back the Japanese invasion of the South Pacific with ferocious air, land and sea battles – island by island in the Solomons until they pushed the Japanese forces out of the
