Fiji - Beqa Shark Dive - looking for recent experience with Aqua-Trek and Coral Coast Divers

[BiSi]

Dear fellow divers,
my partner/buddy and I are booked into our Fiji dream vacation this May/June, including a week on the Na´ia - so far so good.
We are also looking into the Beqa Lagoon Shark Dive and upon researching I found the 4 operators doing the 4 different dive sites, but despite that apparently they are all pretty similar. There are, however, conflicting reviews to be found regarding Aqua-Trek. The bad ones seem credible and if true are very concerning, but they are also quite old (2019 and older). So I was wondering if anyone has recently done the Shark Dive with them and can tell me how it was - overall, but especially regarding safety briefing, safety while watching the shark feeding and safety procedures on the boat. Maybe they have changed for the better?
Based on what I read, my decision would be for Coral Coast Divers (I also enquired with Adventure Divers, but they never replied), but then I found out that there was a change of ownership which apparently changed the operation for the worse.

So I am hoping to get some recent first hand experience reports on both operations, in order to decide with whom to book or maybe to not do it at all.

Thank you very much in advance for your help!
Birgit

 

[mightymouse1504]

Have the bull shark dive with Beqa Adventure Divers three times, can recommend. All three operations are very similar. Have also done the tiger shark dive at Beqa Lagoon Resort. Message me and I can give you more details on both if you need

 

[Shasta_man]

The Nigali Passage on the Na'ia will be good for sharks as well.

It won't be a wall of fish and sharks with maybe a ten+ foot tiger like Beqa Lagoon but the dive won't include a literal floating trashcan as required in Beqa.

The Na'ia is a great boat and good crew anyway, and all the diving is pretty good with them. I would return in a heartbeat. And it's Fiji after all.

 

[Living4Experiences]

I recently dove with Aqua Trek (AT) for their shark dive in late April 2025. I was staying at Waidroka Bay Resort and their boat took us to The Bistro shark dive site. Multiple operators book with AT to all meet at the dive site with their own boats and everyone drops in the water in stages to go down to the arena. It seems each company has their area of the arena where their divers go. There were a lot of divers, maybe 35, from all the companies. We were tightly squeezed shoulder to shoulder during the feeding. This wasn't really a problem since you're staying in one place, and no one on our boat had a huge camera rig that would have obstructed other divers' field of vision.

Once we had arrived at the site, we waited about 30 minutes for the other operators to show up and the coordination of getting everyone in the water. Our boatload of divers was last to the arena and the feeding had already started, which was disappointing because the actual viewing of the sharks is only about 30 minutes. I'd say we lost the first five minutes. I wish Aqua Trek had waited until all the divers were in place before starting. I also blame the guides of Waidroka for not getting us down there sooner because we were all seated with tanks on and ready to go.

I felt it was very safe and conducted very well. There were safety divers behind all the divers to keep the sharks from getting too close. The dive guides from each company plus the safety divers from AT were the ones behind us. AT uses a large trash container filled with bait and dangles it mid-water from a harness/rope system and moves it around the arena in front of the divers for those close-up encounters and photos. Typically, at the end of the dive, they open the lid to the trash bin and it's a free-for-all for the bait. However, on both dives, the AT team decided that for safety reasons, there were too many sharks amped up, so they didn't open the lid. Instead, we were tapped on the shoulder to signal the shark dive had ended. The time left in the dive is spent exploring the upside down wreck before surfacing.

We had about 40 sharks, tawny nurse, bulls, a silvertip and a lemon. It was fantastic and I loved every moment. I would recommend Aqua Trek and I would dive with them again. Here's some video and pics. The shark dive map pic shows where our divers were positioned.