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Beqa Lagoon Resort: "Tiger Sharks at Beqa Lagoon Resort", Nov, 2024, by John Yavorsky, NJ, US ( Top Contributor 37 reports with 17 Helpful votes). Report 13206.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving
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Comments	I first dived BLR in 2010 and did 4 shark dives with Aquatrek at Bistro dive site. Over the years I have done 4 more dives at Bistro and in 2022, did a dive with Coastal Divers at their Colisseum dive site. On all 9 of these dives there were bull sharks and up to 6 other shark species, but no tigers. This trip to BLR was to see tigers at their Cathedral dive site. This was very successful. They seem to have 2 resident tiger sharks, Topless, a pregnant female with an almost non-existent dorsal fin, and Sylvester, a larger male with a jaw deformity. The bulls and other sharks are bit players. I weas signed up for an additional shark feed dive on the final day but that was cancelled due to less than 6 divers signing up. The reefs at Beqa are very nice but pale in comparison to other magnificent Fiji reefs. The dives are generally on the fringing Beqa Lagoon reef which sees enough ocean action to perhaps limit the size of the corals. While there were plenty of small reef fish and some big sharks, medium size fish seemed missing. On a snorkel from shore, my wife band I encountered a 4' barracuda that shadowed us for 20 minutes even into very shallow water that was a bit spooky. Hopefully, Topless and Sylvester will stay around for a long time to excite future BLR customers.
Websites	Beqa Lagoon Resort
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	Over 1000 dives
Where else diving	55 years of diving, including 27 liveaboards and dozens of land-based world wide.
Closest Airport	Nadi, Fiji	Getting There	Fiji Airways flies from LAX or Dallas. Resort will arrange van and ferrying to Beqa.
Dive Conditions
Weather	windy	Seas	calm
Water Temp	79-80°F / 26-27°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	70-100 Ft/ 21-30 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	no
Enforced diving restrictions	follow the leader
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	Lots	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	None	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish
Large Pelagics
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities	N/A
UW Photo Comments	They had 3 boats. the one I was on, Leopard, had 13 divers and had a container filled with water for cameras.

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Dive Review of Beqa Lagoon Resort in Fiji and Tuvalu/Beqa Lagoon Resort

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