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Nai'a Fiji: "Good Trip except for the accident", May, 2024, by John kirkenir, NJ, US ( Contributor 17 reports with 11 Helpful votes). Report 12949 has 3 Helpful votes.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food	N/A
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving
Snorkeling	N/A
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Comments	Nai’a is a 35 year old vessel. It’s showing it’s age but is freshly painted and well maintained. It’s docked in a seaport about an hour drive from Nadi airport. Transport was provided by ship. Let’s start off with the accident and get that over with. On the first day of the 8 day trip we got to the boat about 2:30pm and stowed our gear and got a briefing about the boat and the trip. We then sailed about an hour from the dock and did a check out dive. This was a good idea but we were all very tired after traveling 24 hours from Philadelphia. The boat went back to the dock to get some supplies and to have dinner. The plan was to get underway around 10:30pm and travel until about 6 am to the first dive sites. We awoke to find out that the boat had run aground around 11:30pm. There was a well marked channel with lit channel markers we could see that were about 1000 feet off the starboard side. The crew checked out the boat and there appeared to be minimal damage but we were stuck on the reef until 11 am when the tide came back in and a tug boat could come and pull us off the reef. The plan then was to return to the dock and have a surveyor check the boat over before we could resume our trip. We were taken to a botanical garden called the Gardens of the Sleeping Giant. We got back to ... Subscribe to get the full story. Active subscribers continue reading here
Websites	Nai'a Fiji
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	501-1000 dives
Where else diving	Bonaire, Cozumel, Costa Rica, Bahamas, Florida, curaçao, Bermuda, North Carolina, Aruba, Curacao, Antigua, Dominican Republic, Hawaii, Fiji, Turks Caicos, Cayman Islands
Closest Airport	Nadi	Getting There	Phl to LAX. Then LAX to Nadi (10.5 hours)
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, windy	Seas	choppy
Water Temp	81-82°F / 27-28°C	Wetsuit Thickness
Water Visibility	50-100 Ft/ 15-30 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	500 PSI back in boat
Liveaboard?	yes	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	Lots	Mantas	1 or 2
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	> 2	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	[None] ... Subscribe to get the full story. Active subscribers continue reading here

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Dive Review of Nai'a Fiji in Fiji and Tuvalu

Nai'a Fiji: "Good Trip except for the accident", May, 2024,

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Dive Review of Nai'a Fiji in
Fiji and Tuvalu