Taveuni Dive is ideally
suited for diving at the best dive sites on Rainbow Reef, being
only a few minutes away by boat.
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1 - Dakuniba Pass |
Depth 20-100 feet. Starts as a sloping
reef turning into a wall.
Marine life includes schools of barracuda, leopard shark,
and many hard and soft corals.
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2 - The Zoo |
Depth 30-300 feet.
Wall dive with coral on top.
Marine life include barracuda, moray eels, manta rays,
potato cod, fusiliers, basslets, anthiases, sharks (usually
in schools), nudibranches, plus lots of small beautifully
colored fish. There are
a large range of soft coral, including flatworms.
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3 - Great White Wall
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Huge wall of soft almost luminescent white
coral - about 200 feet long and 150 feet deep, best seen
from around 90 feet down. There
are a couple of tunnels through.
Marine life is mostly white soft corals on the wall with
a few large sea whips sticking off the end of the wall.
On top of the wall there is a mixture of soft and hard coral. Fish life includes the occasional mackerel, eagle
rays, manta rays, coral trout, and lionfish.
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4 - Annie's Bommie |
A submerged reef with big bommies (coral
pinnacles) which allows divers to weave between them. Depth
ranging from 15-70 feet.
Marine life includes schools of fusiliers, basslets, anthiases,
Jack Trevally, moray eels, occasional leopard sharks,
stingrays and pipefish. The area is covered
in soft coral and hard coral
on top of bommies, including opal bubble coral.
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5 - The Corner |
Located at the tip (Corner) of Annie's
Bommie.
Depth ranging from 15-80 feet sloping.
Marine life includes clown triggerfish, unicorn fish, anemone
fish, fusiliers, surgeon fish, sea whips, nudibranches (including Spanish Dancer), occasionally schools of sharks
and barracudas. In addition there is a large variety
of soft and hard corals, including sea fans.
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6 - Mini White Wall |
A submerged reef with a mini wall. Depth
ranging from 30-100 feet. Wall is approx. 20 feet by 20
feet covered with mostly white soft coral. There
are also a large variety of other soft corals.
Marine life includes stone fish, snapper, and leopard sharks, plus a variety of nudibranches. |
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7 - Pot Luck |
Depth 20-90 feet. Sloping reef to view
3 large bommies.
Marine life includes schools of Trevally, bronze whaler and
white tip sharks, schools of red snapper, eagle ray, and
lots of hard corals. |
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- Wise's Place |
Depth 20-80 feet. Sloping dive with coral
heads.
Marine life includes schools of coral grouper, fusiliers,
sea goldies, blue spotted stingrays, yellow
margin moray eels. In addition there are large star corals, table corals, fire corals,
flower corals, and white soft corals.
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9 - Jack's Place |
Depth 20-60 feet. Sloping reef. Lots of
hard corals mixed with soft corals and beautiful colors.
Marine life includes schools of powder blue surgeon fish,
triggerfish, giant wrasse, and yellow margin moray
eels. |
10 - Fish Factory
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A wall with depth ranging from 20-500 feet
plus a variety of soft coral on the top and side of the
wall.
Schools of parrot fish, rump headed, spanish, mackerel,
angel fish, travellys, cod, moray eel, occasional manta rays, occasional sharks,
stone fish and leaf scorpionfish. |
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- Carl Street |
Depth 20-80 feet.
Sandy bottom with coral
heads. Lots of soft corals.
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| 12 - Nuku
Reef |
Depth 20-70 feet. Sloping dive.
Marine life includes soft and hard corals, triggerfish,
clams, Christmas tree worms, leatherly sea anemone, and
lots of small beautiful colored fish.
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| 13 - The Ledge |
A submerged reef with depth ranging from
25-130 feet which has a ledge at 45 feet all around the
reef with a variety of soft coral and sea whips.
Marine life includes emperor angelfish, clown triggerfish,
titan triggerfish, flat worms,
and a couple of lionfish are often seen hovering over the
side of the ledge. |
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14 - Jerry's Jelly |
Depth 15-60 feet. Sloping dive. 2 pinnacles
with white soft corals under ledge and on top.
Marine life includes schools of somber sweetlips, lots
of colorful small fish, and garden eels.
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15 - Sam's Point |
Depth 10-90 feet, although mainly done
to 60 feet as a second dive. Sloping dive. Lots of
soft coral, and sea fans.
Marine life includes humpback snapper, schools of small
fish, coral grouper, white tip sharks, and blue ribbon eels. |
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16 - Rainbows End 1 |
Depth 20-80 feet. Sloping reef.
Soft corals in various colors - purple, red, white, yellow.
Marine life includes moorish idol, wrasse, fusilier, yellowtail,
bluetail, lionfish, moray eels, stonefish, and leaf scorpionfish. |
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- Rainbows End 2 |
Depth 20-80 feet. Sloping reef.
Soft corals - purple, red, white, yellow.
Marine life includes moorish idol, wrasse, fusilier, yellowtail, bluetail, lionfish,
moray eels, stonefish, and leaf scorpionfish.
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18 - Yellow Tunnel |
Depth 10-80 feet. Sloping dive. Coral head
with a point. Yellow soft corals inside and outside a hole.
Marine life includes stone fish,
white tip sharks, schools of bicolor parrotfish, and many colorful small fish.
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19 - Barracuda Hole |
Depth 20-80 feet. Sloping dive with 2 pinnacles
on the way.
Marine life includes schools of barracuda, jack travelly,
unicorn fish, fusiliers, bronze whaler sharks, white tip
sharks, sometimes nurse sharks, and nudibranches.
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20 - Cabbage
Patch
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Depth 10-60 feet. Sloping dive with sandy
areas. Lots of sepentine salad coral.
Marine life includes sabre squirrelfish, spotfin squirrelfish,
lionfish, moray eels, immaculate soldierfish.
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- Kuku Reef |
Depth 60 feet. Hard and soft coral. Lots of small colored fish, bicolor
parrotfish, clown triggerfish, humpback snapper.
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- Coral Garden

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Depth 20-80 feet. Sloping dive with big table
corals, sheet corals, clubfinger corals, netfire corals,
flower corals, and raised mosaic corals.
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