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Your Guide to Diving in Vanua Levu

Dive Savusavu

...Highlights: schooling fish & big pelagics, reef life and health, visibility...
...Diving environment: wall diving, drift diving, beginner and advanced divers, off-the-beaten-track...

Vanua Levu is home to the type of diving for which Fiji is famous: fabulous wall, caves and overhangs festooned with all manner of hard and soft corals, a great variety of reef fish as well as jaw-dropping encounters with mighty pelagics. Unlike some other areas in Fiji however, Savusavu diving, accessed from the nearby resorts, has such a variety of sites that there is enough to keep all levels of scuba diver happy during their trip.

Within the relatively sheltered confines of the enormous Savusavu Bay the sites are less demanding but far from uninteresting, whereas beyond, the currents that sweep up through the Somosomo Strait, can increase the dramatic intensity to levels of fever pitch. So it provides a range to suit all levels, from quite easy sites to the more exposed and challenging dive spots.

For example, Barracuda Point, for obvious reasons, is a much prized dive site in the Vanua Levu area. In addition to the huge school of formidable fish that gives this popular place its name, you may well run into other large animals such as hammerhead sharks. However, it is the antics of the batfish at the cleaning station that spread the most mask-filling smiles among scuba divers lucky enough to find themselves here.

Savusavu is an interesting town located on the shore of a magnificent harbour on Fiji's second largest island of Vanua Levu and is only a short flight away from Nadi or Suva. Those who come here will find high quality dive resorts, plenty of Fijian character as well as no shortage of topside activities. It is of course, the diving which is of the highest importance and with such variety, Savusavu in Vanua Levu cannot fail to impress.


Dive Site Descriptions for Vanua Levu




How to Dive Vanua Levu

You can visit the best dive sites of the Savusavu area by booking a resort package. What's more, the resorts based here regularly visit Taveuni, and that destination is also built into our diving packages.


The Diving Season

You can visit Vanua Levu all year round but the main scuba diving season is from April to October. The months of November, December and January see the most rainfall, with the rainy season extending into March. Visibility is best during Fiji's winter months of July to September when the surface is sometimes choppy and can be as cool as 22°C. During the summer months of November to April water temperature reach 30°C.


Reef Summary

Depth

10 - >40m

Visibility

15 - 40m

Currents

Gentle in the bay but very strong in the strait

Surface conditions

Calm but can be choppy further from shore

Water temperature

normally 26 - 30°C

Experience level

Beginner - advanced

Number of dive sites

10

Recommended length of stay

7 - 10 days




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