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Nai'a Fiji: "A windy time on the Nai'a", May, 2017, by Mark Rosenstein, MA, US ( Sr. Contributor 22 reports with 17 Helpful votes). Report 9594 has 2 Helpful votes.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving	N/A
Snorkeling	N/A
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Comments	This was my twelfth trip aboard the Nai'a, my favorite liveaboard in the world. While the diving is great, and the boat is well laid-out and comfortable, it is the Fijian crew that make it special. They are friendly. All speak English. They have a great attitude, joking with each other and playing guitar on the deck in the evenings. Colorful reef fish are seen by the thousands. I logged 510 species during the ten-day cruise. Several sites have schools of barracudas and trevally, and it wasn't unusual to see reef sharks, mackerel and tuna at open ocean drop offs. They do a shark dive without feeding at a passage with 10 - 20 grey reef sharks circling. You can see natural behavior and get close to the sharks without the dangers of shark feeding. And after twelve trips, I am still finding new fish I haven't seen before. A personal highlight of this trip was seeing and photographing a Golden Angelfish, Centropyge aurantia. The sites visited usually had great coral coverage too. Walls were covered in pink, orange and yellow soft corals. Reef tops were beautiful hard coral gardens. And there were critters: several octopus were seen, and turtles, and a vast variety of nudibranchs, shrimp, and crabs. This trip was unusually windy. This made for choppy water that made getting into and out of the skiffs tricky, but two strong crewmen were always there to assist. Those same winds made some of the ocean crossings bumpier than usual, but I took my dramamine and slept through them, as the boat moves mostly by night. They were good at finding quiet bays to anchor in, and still offered night dives about half of the evenings we were there.
Websites	Nai'a Fiji
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
Dive Conditions
Weather	windy, rainy, cloudy	Seas	choppy, surge, currents, no currents
Water Temp	81-82°F / 27-28°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	30-75 Ft/ 9-23 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	I was looking for some unusual fish and they were happy to let me go as deep as my Nitrox mix would allow, and into shallow surf zones too. Most of the other divers stayed in the 80 - 15 ft range.
Liveaboard?	yes	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	Lots	Mantas	1 or 2
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	1 or 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	N/A
UW Photo Comments	The boat has a dedicated camera room just off the dive deck, and two large rinse tanks. The crew handle moving cameras between the dive deck and the skiffs and know how to handle the rigs safely. Dive briefings include advice on whether to prepare for macro or wide angle, and likely subjects.

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Dive Review of Nai'a Fiji in Fiji and Tuvalu

Nai'a Fiji: "A windy time on the Nai'a", May, 2017,

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Dive Review of Nai'a Fiji in
Fiji and Tuvalu