Date: 11 to 18 December 2021 and 19 to 26 Feb 2022
Limited space: 16 people
Package price: R14 500
Includes:
– 10 dives package includes air fill, but exclude cylinder hire
– 7 nights accommodation,
– 7 dinners,
– Dive Guides on the boat
– Qualified PADI Scuba Instructor available for Refreshers or any courses needed
– Organising by Tridiving
Cost of diving:
**Dive prices exclude cylinder hire
Excess to further reefs – added to dive price
5 Mile Reef R50
7 Mile Reef R80
8 Mile Reef R90
9 Mile Reef R110
Gear Hire (depending on the season)
Full set: R 250.00 to R375.00
Single Item per day: R 90.00 to R120.00
Cylinder & Weights per dive: R35
Excludes:
- Instruction or Courses
- Travel to Sodwana
- Daily Sodwana Park fees (about R25pp per day)
- Drinks
- Food during day, includes dinner
- Flights
- Tips
- Any extra activities
The Diving
Classified as one of the top dive sites in the world, the park is visited by some 35 000 scuba divers per year. The bay is near the southern end of the tropical western Indo-Pacific marine ecoregion, and reef building corals are present. The 50 km reef complex is the habitat of a wide diversity of resident and migratory species. Several submarine canyons cut into the edge of the continental shelf, which is very close to the shoreline. It was in one of these that on 27 November 2000 that a resident population of coelacanths was discovered
Contact: Sonja@tridiving.co.za
About Sodwana
Sodwana Bay is a Bay in South Africa on the Kwazulu Natal north coast, between St Lucia and Lake Sabaya. It is in the Sodwana Bay National Park, and the Maputaland Marine Reserve, and is a popular diving destination.Sodwana Bay National Park is a narrow strip of forested sand dunes located along the east coast. Proclaimed a national park in the 1950s, it is frequented by anglers and divers. Sodwana is situated in the Maputoland Nature Reserve and is the only recreational scuba diving area along the Greater St Lucia Wetlands Park (now renamed to iSimangaliso) coastline.
Accommodation:
We stay in very comfortable houses at Sodwana Bay lodge just outside the Park
How to get there:
By Air: Fly to Durban and get a rental car to Sodwana bay, about 4,5 hours by car from King Shaka Airport to Sodwana
By Car: Drive to Sodwana