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From ChocMoose13: What are the diving conditions like in Fiji? Currents? Drift dives? Most dives off the big boat, or a tender? Is the Na’ia nice to photographers (dedicated buckets, places to load film and store equipment?) I’m getting conflicting stories of Fiji, and can’t decide which ones are real....
Thanks!
ChocMoose13
Not sure of the Fiji resorts but from the Nai’a we got a nice mix of dives, all are from the tender, you hang your tag on the dive board and the crew loads your gear into the tender. Once I drifted back to the boat but usually the tender picked us up. You start all dives with a DM. Many were Bommies, coral heads starting around 80’, you work up the sides and do your safety stop on tops covered with life. We did a few drift dives but most are on reefs but you never need to navigate back to the boat. As noted above there is a camera room with plenty of space, one night during a rough crossing the crew took the cameras off the tables and placed them on the floor so they wouldn’t fall.
As DiveMaiden said, Wakatobi is another choice, it usually needs to be booked a year ahead but you may get lucky. Getting there is a PIA and you need to fly into Bali early so as to not miss the plane but there is some good diving in Bali too and plenty of topside stuff so allow a few days at each end of the trip.
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