A dive holiday to Fiji is hard to top, particularly if you are in search of large fish and incredible visibility at challenging depths – or if you simply wish to enjoy some easy, colorful dives in warm, idyllic waters. The Koro Sea offers a variety of dive sites with features every diver is sure to enjoy. With pristine conditions and the lack of crowds, most sites are best visited by liveaboard. So, dust off your fins, ensure that your BC has that perfect fit, and join us as we explore the fabulous sites that will make for a magnificent diving holiday!
E6 - Koro Sea Dive Sites
Amazing both day and night, E-6 is an incredible underwater paradise with an mesmerizing swimthrough called the Cathedral, plus an astonishing pinnacle that rises up from out of the abyss at 900 meters or better, to within just a meter of the sea’s surface. Schooling barracuda and shoals of game fish, plus eagle rays, hammerheads, and reef sharks make their presence known; E6 is festooned with colorful soft coral and beautiful gorgonian fans, and is home to more invertebrates than you may have ever seen in a single place before.
At night, flashlight fish, with their green lights winking, come up from the depths to feed closer to the surface. An incredible sight! E-6 has plenty going on at depths between five and forty meters. While deeper dives are possible for those with the experience to take them, this site is at its best at normal recreational depths. Great for all levels!
Wakaya Island - Koro Sea Dive Sites
A beautiful shallow reef and wall combination, Wakaya Island’s best diving happens just about 300 meters offshore. Here, you’ll find a plateau at twelve meters, leading to a gorgeous wall that descends to the seabed at thirty meters, then plummets deeper and deeper into the 900 meter abyss. With hard and soft coral in an abundant and colorful profusion, plus brilliant blue ribbon eels, leaf fish, shy gobies and dartfish all along the reef and walls, and larger pelagics emerging from the depths on a regular basis, this is a fabulous site for both macro and wide angle photography. Watch for schooling reef sharks and barracuda, and keep an eye out for hammerheads – not hard to do, since visibility is often as good as forty meters!
Nigali Passage - Koro Sea Dive Sites
While some sites are great ‘round the clock, Nigali Passage is at its best only for about four hours each day, when the current is at its weakest. Even then, you’re in for an exciting drift over a sandy bottomed, narrow passage that descends from 15 to 40 meters. Try to stay in the 20-25 meter range for the best view! You’ll see schools of barracuda and massive shoals of snapper and red sea bass, plus eagle rays, manta rays, and hammerheads, and incredible schools of as many as 25 reef sharks, all swimming together in a display of fins and teeth that is in no way for the timid. At the end of the dive, you’ll find yourself spit out of the passage over a lovely garden of cabbage coral, where even more fantastic life beckons.
Namena Island - Koro Sea Dive Sites
At Namena island, you’ll find Manta Rays swishing and swaying around a lovely pinnacle, which is narrow and allows for a corkscrew ascent from the seamount, which is at an easy thirty meters below the surface. Sponges and brilliant soft corals that bloom to feed coat the reef and pinnacle, both of which are home to all sorts of creatures that look almost like they belong on another planet. Nudibranchs with whimsical faces, tap dancing shrimp popping out from behind curtains of anemone, and swirling damselfish performing courtship rituals are just a few of the performers that take center stage here! You’ll also find blue streak fusiliers, beautiful anemonefish, and playful wrasse. Visibility here can be as good as forty meters at times, and though the current can pick up at times, it is normally mild.
Shark Point - Koro Sea Dive Sites
Fish of all shapes, sizes and colors can be found in profusion here, at what is sometimes called Shark Fin Point. Not surprisingly, the area also hosts white tip reef sharks and grey reef sharks, plus grinning barracuda and eagle rays, as well as the occasional manta ray or whale shark.
With the option to explore the shallows in as little as ten meters of water, or drift along the beautifully colored walls covered in crustaceans, coral and sponges, this area is ideal for all to explore. Maximum depth is only 35 meters, and the fish life is magnificent.
With beauty and wonder everywhere you look, it is not surprising that the Koro Sea is quickly gaining popularity as one of the best places on earth to dive. Choose a reputable liveaboard operator, and you’re certain to enjoy the adventure of a lifetime.