SS President Coolidge

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What you'll see (21)

Blackback AnemonefishAmphiprion melanopusseen 24× near here

Clark's AnemonefishAmphiprion clarkiiseen 16× near here

Common LionfishPterois volitansseen 12× near here

Three-spot DascyllusDascyllus trimaculatusseen 11× near here

Pink Skunk AnemonefishAmphiprion perideraionseen 11× near here

Orangestripe TriggerfishBalistapus undulatusseen 10× near here

Anemone Porcelain CrabNeopetrolisthes maculatusseen 10× near here

Sixbar WrasseThalassoma hardwickeseen 8× near here

Indo-Pacific Sergeant MajorAbudefduf vaigiensisseen 7× near here

Granulated Sea StarChoriaster granulatusseen 7× near here

Tawny Hermit CrabCoenobita rugosusseen 7× near here

Purple Hermit CrabCoenobita brevimanusseen 6× near here

Spotfin SquirrelfishNeoniphon sammaraseen 6× near here

Blackbar DamselfishPlectroglyphidodon dickiiseen 6× near here

Moorish IdolZanclus cornutusseen 5× near here

Blacklip ButterflyfishChaetodon kleiniiseen 5× near here

Spotted LinckiaLinckia multiforaseen 5× near here

Brown TangZebrasoma scopasseen 4× near here

Freckled GrouperCephalopholis microprionseen 4× near here

Bleeker's ParrotfishChlorurus bleekeriseen 4× near here

Blacktail SnapperLutjanus fulvusseen 4× near here

Planning a trip

8–12 days

worth going for

Long haul, usually two flights.

7,213km from Singapore — about 24h each way, so two of those days are travel. 3 dive sites within 25km.

When people dive it

Busiest Oct · almost nobody dives it Feb, Mar, May, Dec.

From 1,404 logged sightings — when divers are in the water, which is not quite the same as when visibility is best.

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Moon and tides

Waning gibbous

71% lit · day 20 of the lunar month

Neap tides

Neap tides — the smallest range of the month, so the weakest currents. Easy conditions and usually the clearest water, though a drift site may barely drift.

New 10 Oct Full 26 Oct

Phase computed here, not fetched. This is the spring/neap cycle, which sets how hard the water moves — not a tide table: no free source publishes high and low water for Southeast Asian reefs, and the range peaks a day or two after the moon does, by an amount that varies with the coast. For times on the day, ask the operator.

Getting there

~18h 24m

door to water, each way · 4 legs

FlightPort Vila (VLI)~12h 18mFlight time plus the airports at both ends. A connection adds to it.Find flights →
Transferthe jetty~3h 36mFor the President Coolidge, which is a shore entry off Espiritu Santo.Directions →
Ferrythe crossing~2hAt this distance the last stretch is a scheduled crossing rather than a dive boat, so book it before the flight — a missed sailing usually costs a day. Which crossing it is has been worked out from the distance and not from a timetable; ask the operator.
Dive boatSS President Coolidge~30 minThen the dive boat out from the island.

📍 SS President Coolidge on Google Maps 🧭 Route from Port Vila

Times marked ~ are estimated from straight-line distance and will be roughly right at best. The road legs are the ones Google Maps answers properly; it will not plan the ferry or the dive boat at all. A dive site's coordinates put a pin in open water, so the map link drops you on the site, not on a jetty.

Details

Max depth: 70m
Type: wreck
Island: Espiritu Santo
Country: Vanuatu
Marks: 15°31.385'S 167°14.115'E
Position: -15.5231, 167.2352

Where it is

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Nearby

Sightings and photographs from iNaturalist contributors, research-grade records within 6km, under Creative Commons licences. Counts are what divers and snorkellers have bothered to log — a common fish with few records is common all the same.