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Beqa Lagoon Resort: "Beqa Lagoon Shark Diving", May, 2017, by Mark Rosenstein, MA, US ( Sr. Contributor 24 reports with 17 Helpful votes). Report 9593 has 1 Helpful vote.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving
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Comments	This place is all about the shark dives. Too bad they only run them Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and charge extra for those dives. We had multiple Lemon, Bull, and Tiger sharks show up to each shark dive. Things get a little crazy during the feedings with multiple sharks and hundreds of other fish in a feeding frenzy at once, making the photography a little challenging because there are usually smaller fish between the divers and the sharks, and chum clouding the water. They won't let divers move around, you have to stay put and keep low for safety. They put six dive guides in the water with us, and needed that many to push away tiger sharks who got too close to divers. I'm quite comfortable around sharks behaving naturally, but this feeding did not feel entirely safe. And it's not a dive for beginners. They should probably require nitrox, as air divers end up in deco doing two dives in a row with 30 minutes spent at 65 feet (and they do not want you to leave early). The reef dives offered other days were inside the lagoon and only mediocre habitat. And the house reef was quite silty as well. And the dive shop was not particularly safety conscious. I was actually encouraged to do my checkout dive by myself without a buddy or anyone else in the water. Dive briefings were minimal, and I was never given an orientation to the dive facilities. The facilities look nice, but not everything was in good repair. I didn't have any problems other than extremely low water flow in the shower, but several other guests had issues with their bures while I was there.
Websites	Beqa Lagoon Resort
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	Over 1000 dives
Where else diving	Fiji, Komodo, Lembeh, Tulamben, Palau, Solomons, Wakatobi, GBR, Galapagos, many Caribbean
Closest Airport	Nadi, Fiji	Getting There	From the international airport, it is a 3 hour drive, then a one hour boat transfer to the resort. Book your transfers in advance with the resort.
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, rainy	Seas	calm, choppy, currents
Water Temp	81-82°F / 27-28°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	20-40 Ft/ 6-12 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	no
Enforced diving restrictions	30 minute shark dives, 50 minute reef dives
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	yes
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	N/A
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities
UW Photo Comments	If you're here to photograph sharks, the subjects are great. Their day boats have one water tub, barely big enough for my camera rig without anything else in it. There was an extra bed in my bure, which I spread a towel on and used for camera work space. There are no camera facilities at the dive shop.

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

Beqa Lagoon Resort: "Beqa Lagoon Shark Diving", May, 2017,

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