Scuba Diving in Fiji

Dive Site: Pitas Passage
Location: South Yadua
Description: Reef / drift
Depth: 18 metres (59 feet)
Visibility: 30 – 40 metres (100 – 130 feet)

A beautiful a slow drift reef dive. Lots of coral overhangs where semi-circular angelfish swim around. Reef life is as abundant as ever, and all in one instant I saw a free swimming moray below me, a white tip reef shark to my left, to my right under an archway a large coral grouper and a Spanish mackerel shooting past. I also managed to look closely into a white spotted grouper’s eyes as he tried to hide from me under a rock. On another dive here I saw a white tip resting on the sea floor, around fifteen large twin spot snappers at the reef top and a harlequin sweetlip.

Scuba Diving in Fiji

Dive Site: Nawasevi (Waterfall) Bay
Location: South Yadua
Depth: 15 metres (49 feet)
Visibility: 30 – 40 metres (100 – 130 feet)

This is a shore dive situated right in front of our camp. This site is not as good as the others because it is close to the shore but it is a nice sheltered bay for dive training and learning your fish and coral id skills. A sleeping parrotfish protected in its mucus. In the day a black and white banded snake eel which imitates the highly venomous sea krate found in other parts of Fiji. All in all, a nice relaxing dive where you can play with blennies in the sand and explore the shallows for butterflyfish, rabbitfish and triggerfish.

Scuba Diving in Fiji

Dive Site: Manta Ray Point
Location: South Yadua
Description: Reef
Depth: 18 metres (59 feet)
Visibility: 30 – 40 metres (100 – 130 feet)

This site is only a one-minute boat trip away from Waterfall Bay. It is advisable to keep looking up and around into the blue and on the reef tops as a manta may suddenly emerge. This is a great dive even if you don’t see mantas however. Expect to find lots of harlequin sweetlips, massive porites coral colonies covered in Christmas tree worms, high fin groupers and large table corals. Also the largest humphead wrasse seen anywhere.

Scuba Diving in Fiji

Dive Site: Mono
Location: South Yadua
Description: Reef
Depth: 18 metres (59 feet)
Visibility: 30 – 40 metres (100 – 130 feet)

This is a very pretty reef dive with great topography and exciting swim throughs. The reef all in all is half the size of Yadua. There are lots of soft corals and small sea fans. Look out for Pacific steephead parrotfish: they are quite large and shimmer as they swim off into the distance.

Scuba Diving in Fiji

Dive Site: Manta Ray Point
Location: South Yadua
Description: Reef
Depth: 18 metres (59 feet)
Visibility: 30 – 40 metres (100 – 130 feet)

This site is only a one-minute boat trip away from Waterfall Bay. All sixteen of us on the expedition were lucky enough to see at least one manta ray in the three months that were there. It is advisable to keep looking up and around into the blue and on the reef tops as a manta may suddenly emerge. This is a great dive even if you don’t see mantas however. Expect to find lots of harlequin sweetlips, massive porites coral colonies covered in Christmas tree worms, high fin groupers and large table corals. The largest humphead wrasse I have ever seen anywhere.