About Revisions Vatu-i-Ra Passage Rakiraki, Viti Levu, Fiji Entry Type: Boat Spring: 81-85°F/27-29°C Summer: 81-85°F/27-29°C Fall: 81-85°F/27-29°C Winter: 81-85°F/27-29°C 9/25/2014 11:46 AM LatitudeAdjustment

Vatu-i-Ra Passage is a boat accessible salt water dive site, located in Rakiraki, Viti Levu, Fiji.

From Scuba Diving Magazine, Some of the swiftest currents and lushest reefs can be found in the narrow Vatu-i-Ra Passage, where soft corals cling to pinnacles that reach toward the surface. Sites in the Vatu-i-Ra Passage are also covered with a kaleidoscopic array of hard corals, crinoids, anemones and seafans. Schooling surgeonfish, fusiliers, barracuda and trevally circle the seamounts while sharks patrol their blue perimeters. A constant presence on these reefs are clouds of anthias moving frenetically just above the corals. These loose collectives seem to be as organized as mosh pits, but each is actually comprised of several small "harems" with a strict social order that includes a dominant male, a few lesser males and a cluster of females and juveniles

Divers reach sites in the Vatu-i-Ra Passage either of two ways: By diving with a land-based operation in the Rakiraki area or on one of the live-aboard dive boats that make this area a regular stop on their itineraries. From the Rakiraki area, the boat ride to Vatu-i-Ra is 45 minutes and is weather-dependent. Because of the longish transit times, the standard drill on Vatu-i-Ra trips is to make three dives instead of two and to eat lunch on the boat between the second and third dive