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Nai'a Liveaboard: "Fiji Bucket List Trip: Part 3 – The Nai’a Liveaboard", Sep, 2022, by Rene Cote, VA, US ( Sr. Reviewer 11 reports with 12 Helpful votes). Report 12044 has 2 Helpful votes.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving
Snorkeling	N/A
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Comments	In Part 2 of my Fiji trip, I spent 3 days of diving on Kadavu island. After that I flew back to Nadi and spent a night at the Gateway hotel near the airport. The airport was inexpensive ($70), meals were good and there was Wi-Fi. There were several divers also there awaiting the transfer to the Nai’a. At 1pm on Saturday a large bus pulled up and we loaded onto it. It was about an hour drive to the harbor where the Nai’a was docked. We boarded and then the fun started. We were cheerfully greeted by the cruise directors Bel and Mike. Later we would learn their story of how they met on Utila, became a couple and ended up here on the Nai’a. They are cheerful, helpful, energetic and professional… and Bel is especially animated during briefings. Bel conducted our initial briefing which was both very thorough and punctuated by her humor. I began smiling during the brief when she went over how the Nai’a runs their diver operations. Key points were: “...we don’t have a time limit or depth limit on dives… you are certified divers... come up when you need to come up…”, “…you don’t have to follow the guide…”. WOW, we could dive our experience, and follow or not follow the guide, what a great improvement over my previous week’s diving on Kadavu island where 40-45 minute dives and 60 feet max were the rules. This is the first liveaboard, and frankly any dive operation I’ve ever been on, that they start out by telling divers that we can dive our experience and THEY ACTUALLY MEAN IT … many other places market that, few deliver, Nai’a delivered. We were welcomed to dive based on our abilities, safe limits and air consumption, and I can attest that over the w ... Subscribe to get the full story. Active subscribers continue reading here
Websites	Nai'a Liveaboard
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	501-1000 dives
Where else diving	Most of the Caribbean, FL, Morehead City NC, Okinawa, Socorro, La Pax, Cenotes MX, Yap, Palau, Komodo Islands, Bali, Maldives, Hawaii, and now Fiji
Closest Airport	NAN	Getting There	LAX to NAN Fiji Airways
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, rainy	Seas	calm
Water Temp	76-80°F / 24-27°C	Wetsuit Thickness
Water Visibility	40-80 Ft/ 12-24 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	Check your Nitrox; dive your experience and computer
Liveaboard?	yes	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	1 or 2	Mantas	1 or 2
Dolphins	1 or 2	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	1 or 2	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
UW Photo Comments	Wonderful camera room with lots of space and charging power strips. 2 camera rinse bins, and even compressed air to blow off the water. ... Subscribe to get the full story. Active subscribers continue reading here

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Dive Review of Nai'a Liveaboard in Fiji and Tuvalu/Nai'a Liveaboard

Nai'a Liveaboard: "Fiji Bucket List Trip: Part 3 – The Nai’a Liveaboard", Sep, 2022,

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Dive Review of Nai'a Liveaboard in
Fiji and Tuvalu/Nai'a Liveaboard