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Beqa Lagoon Resort: "Shark Diving in Fiji", Nov, 2023, by Paul Salembier, ON, CA ( Reviewer 4 reports with 3 Helpful votes). Report 13039.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity	N/A
Dive Operation		Shore Diving	N/A
Snorkeling	N/A
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Comments	We stayed at Beqa Lagoon for 10 days, and did 2 days of shark diving. The resort is definitely worth visiting for the shark diving, but on other dives the coral reefs were generally disappointing. This was explained to be as a result of damage from the Category 5 cyclone that hammered Fiji in 2020. Only one dive site (perhaps Circus-circus or Moana?) had a range of smallish soft corals, but the others were generally bare. If you are looking for the famous Fiji corals, I would suggest choosing a dive site to dive Rainbow Reef or Namena, and possibly the Bligh Passage. That being said, the shark diving was excellent. The dives attracted a variety of sharks including bull sharks and tigers. On one dive we had two 18-foot tiger sharks, as well as a number of bull sharks. On another we had 7-8 tiger sharks in the 14-16 foot range, plus a number of bulls. If you are diving with a camera, I would recommend video rather than still photos, because the fog of fish parts floating around makes for a lot of backscatter. For the same reason, situating yourself at either end of the line of divers at the shark feeding site will minimize scatter, and will give you more numerous approaches by the tigers, when they swing around the group to approach from the back or side. While the shark dives were exciting, we never felt unsafe. Divers kneel behind a 3-foot stone wall, and the dive masters are situated behind the divers to push away any sharks that come to close to the divers, using 8-foot sticks that look like shepherd’s crooks. The dive site is at 60 feet, and the dives last no more than 30 minutes, so deco time is not an issue. Given the disappointing reef diving, I would suggest that a one week stay at Beqa would be sufficient, with 2 days of shark diving interspersed. We had one of the lower valued rooms (all that was available), which was large but not particularly well cooled by the single air conditioner. The pricier rooms might be better, and would be situated closer to the dining room and dive shop. There is a swimming pool to cool off in, but, oddly, the floor at the entrance to it was so slippery that you risked injury went entering or exiting the pool.
Websites	Beqa Lagoon Resort
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	501-1000 dives
Where else diving	Hawaii, Great Barrier Reef, Indonesia, Palau, Fiji, Cozumel, Cuba, Red Sea, Madagascar, St. Lucia, etc.
Closest Airport	Nadi	Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	dry	Seas	choppy
Water Temp	80-81°F / 27-27°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	60-70 Ft/ 18-21 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	no
Enforced diving restrictions	Generally expected to follow guides. On shark dives, required to descend and ascend as a group
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	Lots	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	1 or 2	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters	N/A	Large Fish	N/A
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Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter	N/A	Boat Facilities
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities
UW Photo Comments	No camera room at the resort, and no camera table on the boat. Boat had a camera rinse tank.

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Dive Review of Beqa Lagoon Resort in Fiji and Tuvalu

Beqa Lagoon Resort: "Shark Diving in Fiji", Nov, 2023,

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Dive Review of Beqa Lagoon Resort in
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