Dive Review of Beqa Lagoon Resort in
Fiji and Tuvalu/Beqa Lagoon

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Beqa Lagoon Resort, Feb, 2008, by Gary Krippendorf, CA, USA ( Contributor 14 reports). Report 3963.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity	N/A
Dive Operation		Shore Diving
Snorkeling	N/A
Overall Rating
Value for $$	N/A
Beginners
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Comments	This was my second trip to Beqa Lagoon Resort. The Bad: Visibility was just okay on most boat dives, with a lot of biological "stuff" in the water. The visibility on the shore dives at the resort was between 10 and 20 feet (max). Our prior trip was in July 2005 and we had much clearer water (usually 100 feet on the boat dives). The A/C in our room made noise, but did little else, making it impossible to get a break from the afternoon heat and humidity. The good: Friendly staff, excellent food, and the boat crews did a solid job of getting us safely to and from the sites. Unlike our prior trip where the boats dropped anchor at the sites, causing damage to the corals, moorings are now used. The optional big fish & shark encounter was well worth the additional fee. Unfortunately the visibility was only about 25 feet at the site on our trip, making photography very difficult. Seeing 20+ foot bull sharks, 15 foot lemon sharks, and other large sharks, along with many larger species of fish was exciting. A few divers, including my wife, were offered the unique experience of going beyond the observation boundary rope line out into the teaming mass of fish. My wife was able to pet a 25 foot bull shark from head to tail, and lived to tell us about it. Had we known the visibility would be so poor, we probably would have picked another location for a February trip, and returned to Beqa Lagoon in July or August some other year.
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	251-500 dives
Where else diving	Australia, Cayman Brac, Cozumel, Curacao, Dominica, Fiji, Hawaii, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Roatan, Sea of Cortez, Turks and Caicos
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny	Seas	calm
Water Temp	82-84°F / 28-29°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	25-60 Ft/ 8-18 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	110 feet max, dive using computers
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	N/A
What I Saw
Sharks	Lots	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	None	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish
Large Pelagics
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities
UW Photo Comments	Dedicated water bucket in the boat.

Subscriber's Comments

By linda rollins in CA, US at Jun 28, 2013 01:03 EST

Beqa Lagoon Resort is the only dive operation that I've encountered (I've dove more than 130 dives in Hawaii, Cayman, Mexico, and Florida Keys) that doesn't assist divers up the ladder. I should know, I lost parts of several fingers from a ladder injury at Beqa Lagoon Resort. When I was there, Beqa Lagoon Resort also did not tie down the ladder. These two factors will affect me for the rest of my life due to serious PTSD and chronic nerve pain.

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Dive Review of Beqa Lagoon Resort in Fiji and Tuvalu/Beqa Lagoon

Beqa Lagoon Resort, Feb, 2008,

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