Ironbottom Sound
Tulagi offers some excellent scuba diving. The wrecks of USS "Aaron Ward", USS "Kanawha", and HMNZS "Moa" are close by, and the wrecks of Ironbottom Sound are not much further off, to the south and west. These three ships were all sunk in the same Japanese naval air raid, part of the Operation "I" on April 7, 1943. The "Ward" lies upright and intact, its deck replete with artifacts, on a sandy bottom at , about deeper than one can safely dive on compressed air.