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Madang, the nearest town, 1 km away. Photo: eGuide Travel, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons

MV Coral Queen

Dive site · Papua New Guinea

Advanced divers and up

Is it worth the trip?

80Good out of 100 for your dates

Home sucks

Every day scores the same

Each day of your trip, out of 100

Tue 3 · 80 out of 100

Sea
0.1 mflat
Wind
3 kn
Gusts
10kn
Air
30°C

Wed 4 · 80 out of 100

Sea
0.1 mflat
Wind
3 kn
Gusts
11kn
Air
30°C

Thu 5 · 80 out of 100

Sea
0.1 mflat
Wind
3 kn
Gusts
10kn
Air
31°C

Fri 6 · 80 out of 100

Sea
0.2 mflat
Wind
5 kn
Gusts
14kn
Air
31°C

Sat 7 · 80 out of 100

Sea
0.2 mflat
Wind
6 kn
Gusts
15kn
Air
31°C

Sun 8 · 80 out of 100

Sea
0.2 mflat
Wind
5 kn
Gusts
14kn
Air
31°C

Mon 9 · 80 out of 100

Sea
0.1 mflat
Wind
6 kn
Gusts
16kn
Air
31°C

Tap a day for sea, wind and water. Full forecast

Forecast: next 10 days

Full forecast
  1. Mon 280, good
  2. Tue 380, good
  3. Wed 480, good
  4. Thu 580, good
  5. Fri 680, good
  6. Sat 780, good
  7. Sun 880, good
  8. Mon 980, good
  9. Tue 1080, good
  10. Wed 1180, good

The site in five facts

  • Down to 32 mits deepest
  • From a boathow you get in
  • Advancedand up
  • Water 30 °Crash vest or 1 to 2 mm
  • Faces SEswell from there reaches it

Full forecast

every day, every number

The score doesn't know currents, the visibility on the day or your certification.

Suits Advanced divers and up, as a dive guide states it. Scored for Advanced divers.

Sea and wind forecast and score for each day at MV Coral Queen
DayScoreSeaWindGustsAir
Mon 2Nov80, good0.1 mflat3 kn12kn30°C
Tue 3Nov80, good0.1 mflat3 kn10kn30°C
Wed 4Nov80, good0.1 mflat3 kn11kn30°C
Thu 5Nov80, good0.1 mflat3 kn10kn31°C
Fri 6Nov80, good0.2 mflat5 kn14kn31°C
Sat 7Nov80, good0.2 mflat6 kn15kn31°C
Sun 8Nov80, good0.2 mflat5 kn14kn31°C
Mon 9Nov80, good0.1 mflat6 kn16kn31°C
Tue 10Nov80, good0.1 mflat5 kn14kn31°C
Wed 11Nov80, good–9 kn21kn31°C

Sea is the waves near the site, in metres; wind and gusts in knots. "Boats in": gusts that keep dive boats in. More

Tide

  • Mon 2 NovLow 07:01 −0.5 mHigh 15:00 +0.4 mLow 21:16 +0.1 m
  • Tue 3 NovHigh 00:40 +0.1 mLow 07:46 −0.4 mHigh 15:16 +0.4 mLow 21:32 −0.0 m
  • Wed 4 NovHigh 02:02 +0.1 mLow 08:26 −0.3 mHigh 15:32 +0.3 mLow 21:59 −0.1 m

Local clock times; heights about mean sea level. On open coasts the times are usually within a quarter of an hour; in bays, estuaries and on the Gulf of Mexico they can be an hour or more out. Slack water, the safest time to dive where there is current, is about half an hour either side of each high and low. Tide: EOT20 global ocean tide model, Hart-Davis et al. 2021, DGFI-TUM (doi:10.17882/79489), CC BY 4.0. Times and heights computed by us. A model, not a tide table: check a local table before you go.

Forecast updated . It refreshes every three hours. Forecast data: ECMWF, DWD, Météo-France and NOAA, served by Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0). Changed by us. Generated using E.U. Copernicus Marine Service Information.

Map

the site and its town

Each place wears its best day on these dates: green good, amber fair, pale red poor, as the key says.

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About

the place in full, sources, credits

About MV Coral Queen

A wreck dive. It goes down to 32 m. You get in from a boat. It suits Advanced divers and up, as a dive guide states it. The coast faces SE: swell from the SE reaches it, and wind from the NW blows out to sea. No dive centre within 50 km on the map: book a liveaboard or a boat from further off. The sea is about 28°C in August, its coldest month (3 mm wetsuit), and 30°C in January, its warmest (rash vest or 1 to 2 mm). The town to stay in is Madang. Within 5 km we also list 5 dive sites.

  • What it is Wreck.
  • How deep Down to 32 m.
  • Getting in From a boat.
  • Who it suits Suits Advanced divers and up, as a dive guide states it.
  • Dive centres No dive centre within 50 km on the map: book a liveaboard or a boat from further off.

Water about 30°C: rash vest or 1 to 2 mm. Typical sea temperature for the time of year, not a forecast.

Visibility about 15 m. Typical for the time of year, estimated from ten years of NASA satellite water clarity, not a forecast. Clearest in Jul, Aug and Sep (about 20 m).

The score is the conditions only: the journey, the price and the partners never change it (how we score, how we earn).

Where to stay: Madang

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Closest

Madang

about 5 min by car · 15 places to stay

about US$74/nightcountry average

See 15 places to stay in Madang · Booking.com

About Madang its beds, food and every spot near it

About US$74 a night is our estimate of the country's average 2-star double room that month: not each town's price, and not a quote. Drives are estimates. Prices are about, in US Dollar (USD): our pound figures at the European Central Bank's rate of 30 October 2026.

Getting there

An estimate, one way; the journey never changes the score.

In the water

Dive centres nearby

No dive centre mapped within 50 km.

Dive centres: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Credits

What you might see

Animals divers and surveys have recorded within 2 km of this site in the last 15 years. A record says someone saw it here, not that you will.

  • Dichrometra palmata

    Seen in 16 records, mostly Dec.

  • Alloeocomatella pectinifera

    Seen in 4 records.

Records: OBIS (Ocean Biodiversity Information System, IOC-UNESCO), from the datasets named here, CC0 and CC BY records only. Names: WoRMS, through OBIS; common names from Wikidata. Largest datasets here: 0c9c73d0-7fa1-4c6d-b18b-9affde19eb60; d9a20f0e-2653-4f02-a1ed-eb90782f6b09; 679cb1fa-3d8d-4f22-bab0-8ca2971a96ce; aa16d305-d413-4c4a-90be-b1ec3298d58d. Credits

This week's visibility and the current no free forecast gives. Ask a dive centre before you book.