Exceptional Staff
Aquamarine has the most highly trained and qualified guides guiding on the SS President Coolidge. We pride ourselves in our friendly and professional service and we have guides fluent in English, French, Dutch, German and Japanese.
Professionals Who Simply Love to Dive.
Diving the SS President Coolidge promises to be some of the most adventurous diving you may ever do. To ensure your safety and fun, Aquamarine’s guides are the most highly trained dive guides on the Coolidge (see sidebar for photos and credentials). We have been guiding on the Coolidge for over 17 years and our guides have logged over 30,000 combined dives on the Coolidge alone. We are fully qualified to cater to novice, advanced and technical divers.
The most highly trained and qualified guides in Santo.
We are a PADI Resort, SSI Instructor Training Facility, SDI Instructor Training Facility and TDI Instructor Training Facility. We offer a full range of dive courses from Introductory Dives and Open Water to Tec Training. We also offer Nitrox and Trimix as well as personalized tec tours on the Coolidge for qualified divers. Our spacious training facility is also ideal for dive shops wanting to use Aquamarine as an overseas training location.
The Dive Shop
Aquamarine s the only waterfront dive shop in Santo with our own private harbour perfect for boat dive departures and diver training. Our dive shop is decorated with a photo history of the SS President Coolidge in her cruise liner days as well as photo essay of her sinking. You can read reports of her final voyage and see bits of Coolidge memorabilia.
The Back Deck
You’ll also enjoy a visit to our retail shop where you can purchase gear as well as log books, t-shirts, hats, Coolidge mementos, and locally made handicrafts. Also through our dive shop, you can arrange to do one of the numerous local tours around the island of Santo, a perfect activity for your non-diving days.
“I first dived with Aquamarine in 1994 and had the trip of a lifetime. So when I returned to Vanuatu in 2003 on holiday it was natural that I would come back and dive with Aquamarine again. Nowadays, I am living in Port Vila and sneak up to Santo at every opportunity. For me there is but one choice of dive shop there, as Barry Holland, Aquamarine’s owner, is the only other Trimix qualified diver in Vanuatu and he has become a regular dive buddy for my photo dives to the stern of the magnificent SS Coolidge.”
“Over the years I have been lucky enough to dive at some of the best dive sites around the world and to teach in the Pacific, Asia, Europe & Africa. I can honestly say that the guys & gals of Aquamarine in Santo, Vanuatu offer a dive site that is unequalled and service that is professional, accommodating and fun! The President Coolidge is without doubt one of the, if not the, best wrecks in the world to dive. Covered with corals, good fish life and easy access the wreck is an awesome sight and at a depth of 20m to 60m offers a full range of diving and penetration. The crew at Aquamarine are all well geared to support new divers and deep wreck explorers and offer Nitrox, Trimix and Rebreather familiarity. They know the wreck well, offer careful and well prepared guides and are happy to accommodate individual requirements. I have taught at Aquamarine; my wife and I have dived with them when on holiday and on each trip we have found Aquamarine & Santo a real gem in the diving world. If you haven’t dived Santo with Aquamarine, then you have missed the best part of the experience!”
