Wayfarer (Dive and Discover)

Sri Lanka sits in the Indian Ocean at the intersection of ancient trade routes and two world wars. What that means underwater is extraordinary: WWII aircraft carriers, Royal Fleet tankers, a Dutch Catalina flying boat, Mughal coin ships, and reef systems that sustained fishing communities for centuries before scuba diving existed.

The island's dive seasons are almost perfectly counter-cyclical. The east coast --- where the WWII wrecks lie --- is calm from May to October when the south-west monsoon closes the west and south coasts. The west and south coasts --- Bar Reef, Hikkaduwa, Galle, the Great Basses --- are best from November to April when the north-east monsoon keeps the east coast rough. Between them, PKG 08A and PKG 08B give Ophiro a dive-focused product that is bookable for over ten months of the year.The island's underwater layer is the most literally buried of all its layers. This journey goes there.