Scuba diving enthusiasts know that South Pacific is home to some of the most beautiful underwater sights in the world. Fiji Islands offer hundreds of spectacular diving sites to please even the most discriminating and experienced scuba-diver.
Mostly coral reefs from Fiji Islands provide a wide variety of dive possibilities for novices and expert divers, including wreck dives, night dives, and drift dives. When you are in vacation in Fiji you should visit some of the most stunning reefs:
The Outer Barrier Reef provides some of the most stunning diving spectacles in Fiji. If somebody is looking for colorful fish swimming in and out of equally rainbow-kissed coral, then that person should visit Gotham City, one of the most renowned diving sites in Fiji, or the place named Big W, where big fish, including mantas and sharks, often cruise on their way out to the ocean.
Namotu Reef, located on one of the Outer Barrier Reef's passages, offers a fantastic view of sharks, marlins, and manta rays. The Namotu Wall, on the other hand, provides an unbelievable view of aquatic life, with turtles, sharks, and schools of fish in great abundance.
If somebody is looking for a non-traditional scuba diving site in Fiji, with unexpected results, then can visit Barrel Heads, where reef sharks, turtles, hard coral, and sea fans are in large number. The Castaway Passage, renowned for its incredible visibility of more than 30 meters, is a main attraction. The Big Blue, which offers a remarkable variety of coral canyons, is a hot dive destination too.
Drift dive enthusiasts will appreciate the Wilky Wall, a drift dive over Fiji's most beautiful coral reefs, and the Wilkes Passage, a thrilling passage that runs with the ocean current.
Malolo Barrier Reef is an impressive diving site for its exciting and abundant aquatic life. Here you'll find the world's most famous diving site for sharks. Grey,white, and black reef sharks can be all found there.
The sunken B26 bomber provides an interesting goal to divers seeking a bit of history. Salamanda shipwreck offers an exciting wreck dive. Salamanda, a 40 m long cruise ship, is now home for soft coral, shrimp, crabs, and sea anemone.
Other scuba diving sites from Fiji
Other scuba dive resorts worth checking out in your vacation in Fiji Islands are:
- Jackie's Reef, for its diverse fish population.
- Vomo Island, which hosts Ronnie's Reef's sensational coral canyons, caverns, and unforgettable swim-through passages.
- Tui's Reef, a popular night diving resort, where crayfish, clams, moray eels and other tropical aquatic life can be seen without effort.
- Stonehenge, ideal for novice divers due to its shallow depths
- Bird Rock, renowned for its swim-through passages, caves, soft corals, and plentiful fish species
- The Circus, phenomenal for its abundance of multicolored coral
- The Coral Gardens, a relatively shallow reef dive with different corals and fish.
More information can be found on Diving in Fiji Islands