GREAT NEWS FOR SCUBA DIVERS!

February 19, 2018

FIJI SCUBA DIVING SPECIAL

Dive site in Fiji, perfect for scuba divers.
Love to Scuba Dive in Fiji?

 

Well you’re going to love our SCUBA DIVER SPECIAL:
    • 5 nights in Paradise in an Oceanview air conditioned Bure
    • All meals- full cooked breakfast, 1 course lunch
    • 2 course dinner per person
    • 3 day Unlimited Dive Package – 3 tank boat dives + shore dives daily from 7am to 5pm
    • Return Taveuni Airport road transfers
    • And a large selection of complimentary resort activities for your enjoyment!
Fiji Scuba Diver at the Great White Wall
OR
    • 7 nights in Paradise in an Oceanview air conditioned Bure
      All meals with a FREE upgrade to our divers meal plan – Full cooked breakfast + 2 course lunch + 3 course dinner
      5 day Unlimited Dive Package- 3 tank boat dives + shore dives daily from 7am to 5pm
      FREE Night Dive
      Return Taveuni Airport road transfers
      And a large selection of complimentary resort activities for your enjoyment!

 

Check us out at www.paradiseinfiji.com and take advantage of this Special!!!!

 

We also have our most popular 50% off Fiji Dive Special. Contact us as soon as possible.

Dive Packages in Fiji

 

Paradise Taveuni is one of the most in-demand scuba diving resorts in the Fiji isles. Owned and operated by a family who originally hailed from Australia, we specialise in affordable travel deals for tourists and vacationers. Accommodations can be booked through our website or on various accredited booking platforms.

 

To know more about the best diving Fiji packages, get in touch with our team as soon as possible. We can recommend activities that suit your budget and preferences. You also have the option to get certified for scuba diving under the guidance of a PADI instructior. 

CORAL REEFS

What to Expect When Scuba Diving in Fiji & Exploring Coral Reefs

Coral Reefs represent one of the world’s most spectacular beauty spots.

Rainbow Reef

The mention of coral reefs generally brings to mind warm climates, colorful fishes and clear waters. However, the reef itself is actually a component of a larger ecosystem.

 

They are the foundation of marine ecosystem, housing tens of thousands of marine species. Many experienced scuba divers come to Paradise Taveuni just to witness the excellent soft coral blooms.

The Great White Wall

Fiji Dive Resort

 

The nutrient rich waters promise plenty of pelagic fish species when diving in Taveuni.

 

For this reason, coral reefs are often referred to as the”rainforests of the oceans.” They are important fishery and nursery areas, and more recently have proved to be very important economically as tourist attractions.

 

Paradise Taveuni offers each divers opportunities to discover the beauty of the best diving spots in Taveuni, Fiji‘s waters.

Dive into Paradise!

Stay in Paradise during your vacation in the Fiji islands and get to dive in and witness the mesmerising beauty of coral reefs.

 

You can choose from our 50% OFF FIJI SCUBA DIVE SPECIALS.

Sara and James, DMTs

Sara and James, our Dive Masters in training (DMTs) are now halfway through their stay and well in to the courses.  They are currently completing the mapping exercise and have recorded the house reef in detail. But this isn’t the first time they’ve documented the undersea world.  Just a couple months the were working at a marine research base on the island of Cagalai helping to accumulate baseline data on the condition of the reef.
Two years ago, large storms disturbed much of the reef around Cagalai.  The research  Sara and James assisted with looked at the density of fish, invertebrates, soft and hard corals and more.  The information gathered will help to map out the reef around Cagalai.  They will then present the data back to the villages on the island to allow them to decide where to have their marine protected areas (MPAs), or tabu areas where no fishing will be allowed to let the reef recover.  Sara said that their were patches of reef that were still really good and she could see where the reef was bouncing back.  She is hoping to return to Cagalai after her DMT course at Paradise to continue the research.  She says she was doing about two dives a day, five days a week for three months and did around 100 dives while there.  So you can understand why she would want to go back.
James worked underwater on the research team but also spent a lot of time in the local schools teaching about marine ecology and rubbish.  He started with grades 1-4, mostly 6-7 year olds, which was a bit difficult due to the language barrier as they were just then learning English.  But, he said he had more success with grades 5-8, those aged 10-11, who seemed to get it.  The main focus of his teaching was understanding what was living, what was part of the natural environment, and what wasn’t – basically, why we want to keep the rubbish out of the ocean.  Community meetings were also occurring within the villages and the whole effort was leading to the opening of a recycling center with songs and entertainment provided by the school kids to celebrate.
In addition, there were beach clean-ups, underwater clean-ups that collected a lot of fishing line. Sara says her favorite were the opistobranch surveys to look for nudibranchs.  Often, she would find a whole family of nudibranchs together and find 6-8 different types on one survey.  Both are great divers and are sure to become Dive Masters with ease.  Paradise is pleased to host two divers who have done some great work for Fiji.

The Taveuni Explorer

The new boat has arrived.  The 45-foot Taveuni Explorer has returned from Nadi where it was dry-docked and fully refurbished.  It is returning home.  The boat was originally laser cut in Australia and assembled in Taveuni 21 years ago by Spencer Tarte who’s family has lived in southern Taveuni since the late 1800s.  It has gone as far as Tonga and back and to many islands in between.  The Taveuni Explorer boasts seating for 26 divers with double tanks, 18 on its upper deck, a freshwater shower, kitchenette, and twin Iveco 333 horsepower in-board diesel engines.

So what do we have planned with our new vessel you ask?  Well let’s see.  How about an overnight fishing trip to Koro island, through the Koro sea’s chain of basaltic cinder cones which support abundant fish life.  Island hopping to Kioa, Rabi, and Ringold island to look for manta rays.  Circumnavigating Taveuni to see all the waterfalls on the windward eastern side that are only accessible by sea.  Whale watching in August when the Humpbacks arrive.  Or, sunset cruises with sparkling wine and nibbles.  But, we are perhaps most excited about overnight dive expeditions to Namena marine reserve.  The Taveuni Explorer has bunks for two couples and crew for five dives on one Taveuni’s most pristine reefs.  We’re so excited we don’t know where to start.

First Descent at Vuna Village dive site

With Cyclone Pam around Vanuatu kicking up a fuss, giving us wind and rain from the north, we decided to look for some new shore dives on the south side of the island.  Vuna village has always welcomed us to come visit so we decided to ask the chief if we could dive Vuna reef from their backyard.  We were given the okay and shown to a small rocky cove.  With no idea what they would find dive instructor Antoni led three of our more experienced guests, Matt, Laura and Sally, over the rock and coral bottom at high tide and out to the ledge.  Schools had been canceled because of the weather and a large group of children looked down from the rocky outcrop.  It was the first time they’d seen scuba divers in their village.  Some had taken tentative sips of air from our regulators to see how the scuba gear worked.  The men of the village regularly collect shellfish and go spearfishing here, free diving to great depths including the young high chief himself who commands just over half the island’s landmass.  But as yet the intrepid four would be the first scuba divers to explore the site at length.

I stood on the beach tracking their bubbles through my binoculars, occasionally letting the kids have a look, phone ready in case any problems should occur.  The kids lost interest and wandered off and it was just me and a couple others sitting there when the divers resurfaced 50 minutes after their descent.  They swam through the small surf back to the beach and we got their gear off.  “Amazing,” they said.  “Lots of ghost coral everywhere, some really big ones, bigger than we’ve seen anywhere else.  The hard corals were probably the best on Vuna reef with plenty of large plates and branching staghorn.”  The dive site in the protected southern bay is sheltered from the storm surges that would have hammered much of the reef during previous cyclones.  Then, after the second dive, they came back reporting seeing several eagle rays, one especially large and old.  It was a good dive site, maybe even great.  The villagers said in June and July the surf would be pumping and a hundred kids on school holidays would be surfing on any piece of plywood they could find, vying for the few surfboards available.  But for now we had found a great site to get us through the cyclone season until the surf arrived.  And we had claimed a moment in history: the first descent at the reef off Vuna village.  Special thanks must be given to the chief for giving us the opportunity.  We promise to take good care of the site.