DiveMe Fiji Blog: Fiji Diving Info–Spots, Soft Coral, Sharks

Diveme Magazine

admin — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:17:23 +0000

Diveme Fiji has released it’s very own “Dive E-Magazine” on Friday 23rd April, check out some great articles,diving experiences, locations and photographs.

Barracudas

admin — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 18:26:05 +0000

A finned fish that goes up to 1.8m in length. They are renowned for their larged size and fearsome looks. They are either grey, dark green or dark blue in color with silvery side. The name for a group of barracudas is a battery who are opprtunistic predators usually attacking using tactics like suprise and short bursts of speeds.Adults are solitary and usally prey on fish tearing off small chunks. Game angling is popular in Fiji for fishing folk and the best season to get the barracuda is February. They can also be found at the Rainbow Passage, the Great White Wall, Mini White Wall, The Zoo, Great Yellow Wall and The Purple Wall.

Eating Barracuda

Rainbow Passage

admin — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 18:04:30 +0000

Rainbow Reef has a large variety of soft coral, tube corals, and large bommies.You can also find many white-tip sharks, stone fish, clown tiggers fish,long nose hawkfish, clown fish, damsel fish, and butterfly fish.The top of the reef starts at 12 metres and gradually slopes to 20 metres. There is a good abundance of fish life and soft corals, and the reef is covered by some very unique soft corals not found in this abundance anywhere else in Fiji.It is located in the Rainbow Reef in Tavueni, Fiji.

Rainbow Passage

The Stairs

admin — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 18:01:49 +0000

The Stairs is a reef that is located in Tavueni, Fiji.It is called ‘The Stairs’ because as you enter the reef you will be greeted by hard plate corals of all colours and swimming among them are titan trigger fish, parrotfish, nudie branches, flat worms, feather stars and sea whips and wrasse.Occasionally you will also find reef sharks and barracuda here as well.

The Stairs

Nonillion Magical Microbes of the Ocean

admin — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 16:00:00 +0000

You have seen the thousands of vibrantly colored and exotic creatures in the sea but do you know that their are things more facinating hidden in the depths of the sea? Recently found in the deapths of the pacific seabed scientists have seen microscopic microbes and zooplankton never seen before.To see these single celled organisms one has to use highly powered microscopes. When seen underneath the microscope one can see the many riches of the ocean that are kept hidden from normal human eyes. Yes these planktons feed the world since fish feed on these nutrient rich organisms which inturn are eaten by other sea animals and finally by us humans.

Flower-like: The acantharians

Alice in Wonderland

admin — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 19:40:50 +0000

Did you know Fiji has a dive site called Alice in Wonderland?
This dive site is located north of Fiji near Vanua Levu.
It is known as Alice in Wonderland because of the large mushroom found there, like the ones in the movie. These large mushroom-shaped corals underneath which you can often see small reef sharks. Upcurrent end has good flow and huge aggregations of reef fish and larger pelagic life.

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Purple Wall

admin — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:45:17 +0000

The Purple Wall is located in Somosomo Strait, in Tavueni, Fiji.
It is covered with a solid wall of soft corals, coral trees sea fans and whip corals that are all various shades of purple, hence the site name.
With many small colourful tropical species of fish such as soldierfish, squirrelfish and many other reef fish. You will not be able to find any schools of fish here but youw ill get to see some giant parrotfish.
Maximum depth of the wall is 36 meters.

Purple Reef

Golden Dream Reef

admin — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:18:13 +0000

This is a soft coral lovers paradise and is quite simply breath taking.
This is Fiji’s best display of golden coral.Six spectacular coral heads covered with yellow soft coral from top to bottom. Even the walls and roofs of every tunnel are covered with yellow soft coral.
Many fusiliers, thousands or orange and purple anthias, unicorn fish, schools of sergent majors, and some varieties of parrot fish, all conspire to shield the reef from the diver’s view. This reef is moe like a fish soup.
Location : Thakau Vatu Latha (Sail Rock Reef), 10 minutes northwest of Nananu-i-Ra.
Depth of 18-35 meaters.

Red Soft Coral

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Noel’s Wall in Fiji

admin — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:07:18 +0000

Noel’s Wall is one of the famous dive site in Tavueni, Fiji.
You can find many soft corals and fusiliers. Schools of barracudas, occasionally surgeon fish, school of bronze whalers, unicorn fish, golden anthiase, schools of jack trevally and not forgetting queen angels.
This dive site is most famous for the soft corals and pelagics.

Noel's wall

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Jellyfish

admin — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 17:41:39 +0000

Jellyfish also know as jellies or sea jellies can be found in every ocean. There are few dangerous box jellyfish like the ones on the Australian Coast but they aren’t common in the Fiji waters so rest be assured that they wont do you harm.They are considered a delicacy in countries like Japan and do not possess any heart, brain or bones. They are very primitive creatures but they have “sight” though its a mystery how they can process the information from their “sight”. Another interesting fact about these facinating creatures is that their body is 95% water.

Jellyfish Bloom