Million Dollar Point

Luganville, Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu

A WWII-era US military equipment dumping ground on the shore of Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu. At the end of the Pacific war in 1945 the US offered to sell the equipment to the British and French colonial administrators; when the offer was refused, the US dumped the entire inventory into the sea. Tanks, bulldozers, trucks, jeeps, forklifts, and supplies scatter from the shore to approximately 40 m depth. Shore-access dive; suitable for Open Water through tech divers depending on depth.