Dive Into Beqa Lagoon!

Jump in – the water's great! Join your skilled, friendly and experienced dive masters on an underwater journey of discovery. Dive sites are magnificent, reefs are rich with life, and you'll soon discover why diving in Beqa Lagoon is so legendary. Take a look at what lies beneath – a brief look into some of the amazing sites you'll see on your dive discovery to Fiji. Fiji diving at its best!

Dive Sites

Best of the Best

  • Distance from Lalati : 5-10 min.
  • Dive : 15-80 ft / 5-24m
  • Unique Feature : Swim through & Blue Ribbon Eels
  • Level : Intermediate - Advance or confident beginners

 

Soaring pinnacles that come within 15 ft/5m of the surface highlight this dive. The name really says it all – it is the best representation of all that is amazing about diving in Beqa Lagoon. These pinnacles are literally covered with life. You'll find a plethora of Beqa Lagoon's resident Blue Ribbon Eels, as well as Lionfish, Leaffish, turtles, a swim through with soft coral inside, fire coral, barracuda, white tips, flat worms and cleaner shrimp.

Carpet Cove

  • Distance from Lalati : 18-22 min
  • Dive : 19-110 ft/6-34 m
  • Unique Feature : Wreck & Carpet Coral
  • Level : Beginner - Advanced

 

A vast array of marine life is found on this wreck – and old Japanese fishing vessel. Around the wreck (at 110ft/35m) you'll find a school of Chevron Barracuda and a large Napoleon Wrasse. White tips often cruise the area as well. The wreck itself is encrusted in sponges and soft corals, and you can see an abundance of lionfish, blue ribbon eel, anemone fish, pygmy wrasse, leaffish and dartfish. Schools of barracuda fish, cushion starfish, bat fish, angel fish, Moorish idols, schools giant travelli, yellow fin tuna fish, dog fish, pipe fish.

Highway to Heaven

  • Distance from Lalati : 20-25 min.
  • Dive : 18-110 ft. / 6-34 m
  • Unique Feature : Wall Dive & Sea Fans
  • Level : Intermediate - Advanced

 

A great wall dive featuring a swim through at 80-100ft/25-32m on the wall. The wall is covered in sea fans and is a great place to search for nudibranchs and pipefish. A school of sweetlips hangs out near the swim-through where you should also watch for Black Tip Sharks and White Tip Sharks, schooling barracuda and turtles.

At 40ft the top of this dive site is covered with a hard coral garden with many anemones hosting a multitude of anemone fish. Ask to see the giant clam!

Muck Luck

  • Distance from Lalati : Shoredive
  • Dive : 10-80 ft / 3-25 m
  • Unique Feature : Seahorses & Pipefish
  • Level : Beginner - Advanced

 

Noted by Outside Magazine as one of the world's best muck dives, Muck Luck is a treasure chest of small and well hidden marine life. Some of the creatures you'll see are: cluster anemones, Blue Ribbon Eels, Frogfish in shades of green, black, pink, orange, shaggy. Flame Scallops, Nudibranchs and flatworms galore, ghost pipefish, lionfish, pipehorses, adult and juvenile seahorses, shrimp and more.

Soft Coral Plateau

  • Distance from Lalati : 10-15 min
  • Dive : 10-80 ft/ 3-25 m
  • Unique Feature : Amazing soft coral colors
  • Level : Beginner - Advanced

 

An easy dive featuring coral heads and wall. A great place to see small creatures and meandering reef sharks. The gulleys that run along the reef hold a treasure trove of exotic sea life. Hard and soft corals, blue ribbon eels, sharks, reef fish, leaf fish, garden eels.

Glory Hole

  • Distance from Lalati : 15-20 min.
  • Dive : 15-80 ft/ 5-25 m
  • Unique Feature : Bright Pink Anemone Fish
  • Level : Beginner - Advanced

 

3 large pinnacles are covered in sea fans and red, yellow and purple soft corals. Swim through features yellow and white hanging soft corals. The coral heads have schools of purple and orange Antheas as well as Lionfish, Angelfish, Butterflyfish, octopus, 3 colors of leaf fish, nudibranchs and more.

Seven Sisters

  • Distance from Lalati : 10-15 min.
  • Dive : 10-60 ft/ 3-18 m
  • Unique Feature : Giant pinnacles & Turtles
  • Level : Beginner - Advanced

 

Features seven pinnacles you can swim between, with a variety of bright soft corals, fans and crinoids. Fish life abounds, with octopus, Anthias, Fusiliers, a variety of shrimp, Butterflyfish, Moorish Idols, and pelagics like Mackerel and Trevally.

Million Dollar Point

  • Distance from Lalati : 15-20 min.
  • Dive : 50-100 ft/ 15-30 m
  • Unique Feature : Intense colors
  • Level : Beginner - Advanced

 

A nice, long shallow dive that is amazing for photographers looking to capture the intensity of the soft coral colors. Beautiful to behold! An easy way to start your dive holiday and get re-introduced to the world "downunder." Soft & hard coral at top of three different pinnacles. Good for photographers, with small reef fish, abundant live coral, clown fish, anemones.

Shark Feed

  • Distance from Lalati : 30-40 min.
  • Dive : 80 ft/ 25m
  • Unique Feature : Up to 8 Species of sharks
  • Level : Confident Beginner - Advanced

 

Known as the world's number one shark dive, this dive features bulls, tiger sharks, grey white and black tip reef sharks, nurse sharks and silvertips. Also seen are giant travellies, humphead wrasse, red bass, surgeon fish, triggerfish, cod, grouper, bait fish and many others. This is an exciting and educational experience. Even novice divers benefit from the knowledge that these powerful creatures are to be respected, not feared.

Frigates Wall

  • Distance from Lalati : 45-50 min.
  • Dive : 15 ft / 5 m and down!
  • Unique Feature : 2 Unique Wall Dives
  • Level : Confident Beginner – Advanced

 

Two wall dive opportunities with large sea fans, soft & hard coral, school barracuda, large schools of grouper, sweet lips fish, giant clams on the shelves of the wall, moray eels, black tip schools of sharks and nudibranchs.

Nudibrach City

  • Distance from Lalati : 15-20 min.
  • Dive : 10-50 ft/ 3-15 m
  • Unique Feature : Wide variety of Nudibranchs
  • Level : Beginner - Advanced

 

Ten pinnacles all covered with hard and soft corals and sea fans. Reef fish, lion fish, blue ribbon eels, two types of leaf fish, sharks, turtles, mantis shrimp, bat fish.

Our Favorite

  • Distance from Lalati : 45-50 min.
  • Dive : 15-90 ft/ 5-28 m
  • Unique Feature : Great Visibility/Soft Corals
  • Level : Confident Beginner - Advanced

 

Five pinnacles, three swim-thrus with soft coral inside and outside the swim-thrus, lots of colorful soft corals, sharks (white and black tip and sometime nurse sharks), lots of moray and garden eels, nudibranchs, cleaner and popcorn shrimp, trigger and unicorn fish, lion fish, bat fish.

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