Iron Bottom Sound

Iron Bottom Sound between Guadalcanal and Florida Islands holds the densest concentration of WWII shipwrecks on earth — named for the hundreds of Allied and Japanese vessels sunk in furious naval battles of 1942 and 1943. USS Kanawha, HMAS Canberra, and dozens of other warships rest alongside pristine outer reef walls off Malaita, creating a destination where deep history and extraordinary coral biodiversity coexist within the same dive day.