Looking for information on diving Fiji

[CAPTAIN SINBAD]

Ya man. Id love to hear about more Fiji diving. What is the resort that offers the best diving if you were to go there only once in your life? Can anyone with multiple resort experiences please chime in? Thanks.

 

[Frosty]

From what I heard when we were diving in Fiji, the worst novices from both New Zealand and Asia, go to Fiji....and expect to have many of the diving skills preformed for them by the dive masters. Any worse, and the DM's would just go down without them, and show them the video!
What do you say about an industry that provides certs based on whether the Credit Card works...not whether the person is really good enough to scuba dive ON THEIR OWN.
I saw many of these novices when we were there, on the other boats that Beqa Lagoon had....( they kept us separate from them). The few times we were at the same dive sites, the sight of these people was horrifying...horrifying that someone had certified them....and kind of horrifying to think that these DM's had to essentially be running this like DSD's for all the people on the boat.

Dan-as long as you are going to "vacation locations" rather than specific dive resorts you are going to run into divers who may well do about four dives a year and that is on vacation. As soon as actual effort is involved to go diving then the quality of the divers raises conciderably.
I genuinely feel that it wouldn't matter where in the world you go you will encounter that.
Now Changeagent--Ill prefix this by saying I am very VERY biased on this subject.
My recommendation for you would be to change your dive destination to Vanuatu.
Why?
First of all there is a truly fantastic wreck dive at a place called Santo. Its called the president Coolidge. it was a luxury liner converted into a US troop carrier in WW2. heading out to sea it hit a "friendly" mine but the skipper had time to run her aground.You could do 100 dives on her and still not see it all.
Then there is Diving in Port Vila.there are five wrecks in and around the harbour. One or two easy reef dives.
A friend of mine has set up a dive company catering for experienced divers. He takes you to the much less explored places that are great diving but you need experience. He is there to show you around more than acting as dm etc.
Then theres tranquillity resort.-the best soft coral/tropical fish diving Ive ever done.
Im off there again in a weeks time -again easter 2016

 

[KLG]

Hi Eric,
I would email Julie at Taveuni Ocean Sports. We had some very advanced divers and Julie worked with them to make sure they got what they needed. Some were definitely down there for an hour or more. She seems both very flexible with advanced divers and also very thorough with novices (like me). She also runs Nakia Dive Resort, which is a tiny resort with 3-4 bungalows. We didn't stay there but would next time we go. There's also a very cool, fairly upscale hostel nearby with an awesome bar. We loved Taveuni - amazing dives, some current, in the middle of nowhere. If you want more info, just let me know. (I was not a fan of Bonaire, by the way.)
Have fun!
KLG
San Francisco