Taveuni Dive on Taveuni Island Fiji| Our Dive Sites

Taveuni Dive is ideally suited for diving at the best dive sites on Rainbow Reef, being only a few minutes away by boat.

For your convenience, we have classified our dive sites into levels of experience:

Level 1: Beginner diver. Maximum depth 18 metres / 60 feet

Level 2: Intermediate diver, depths range from 20-25 metres / 70-85 feet

Level 3: Advanced diver, depths up to 30 metres / 100 feet

		RAINBOW REEF DIVE SITES
	1 - Dakuniba Pass Level 2	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.
	2 - The Zoo Level 3	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.
	3 - Great White Wall Level 3	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.
	4 - Annie's Bommie Level 2	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.
	5 - The Corner Level 2	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.
	6 - Mini White Wall Level 2	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.
	7 - Pot Luck Level 3	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.
	8 - Wise's Place Level 2	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.
	9 - Jack's Place Level 2	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 Level 2	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.
	11 - Carl Street Level 2	Depth 20-80 feet. Sandy bottom with coral heads. Lots of soft corals.
	12 - Nuku Reef Level 1	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.
	13 - The Ledge Level 3	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.
	14 - Jerry's Jelly Level 1	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.
	15 - Sam's Point Level 2	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.
	16 - Rainbows End (1) Level 2	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.
	17 - Rainbows End (2) Level 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.
	18 - Yellow Tunnel Level 2	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.
	19 - Barracuda Hole Level 3	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.
	20 - Cabbage Patch Level 1	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.
	21 - Kuku Reef Level 2	Depth 60 feet. Hard and soft coral. Lots of small colored fish, bicolor parrotfish, clown triggerfish, humpback snapper.
	22 - Coral Garden Level 1	Depth 20-80 feet. Sloping dive with big table corals, sheet corals, clubfinger corals, netfire corals, flower corals, and raised mosaic corals.
Taveuni Dive, a Pro Dive facility is only 5 minutes from the pristine Vuna Reef.
Vuna Reef on the southern tip of Taveuni Island.
		VUNA REEF DIVE SITES
	Orgasm Level 2	Vuna Reef at its finest! This wall dive faces open ocean and it is here that we have seen some of our favorite regulars: Sharks, Rays and Napoleon Wrasse. Drift by schools of Spanish Mackerel or giant Tuna from the deep. All this in only 60ft/18m, a truly awe-inspiring dive site that nevers seems to disappoint us.
	Tavoro Cave Level 3	This deep wall dive has got it all. A spooky cave at 90ft/27m, swim throughs, and lots of life. The topography of this site is striking: a sheer wall with plenty of gullies. Look up into clouds of reef fish, look down to Reef Sharks and look out to Barracuda, Tuna and Turtles. A dive not easily forgotten.
	Incredible Reef, Level 3	On the inner side of Vuna Reef, this deep dive explore a large wedge-shaped area cutting into the Reef wall. Schools of pelagics glide past as smaller reef fish swarm in the shelter of the wedge.
	Pinnacles Level 3	This deep seamount stands a little off Vuna Reef and attracts Manta Rays in season and other large visitors as well as smaller schooling species. Soft corals are abundant and bright thanks to the sea current.
	The Stairs Level 2	On the top of the reef, you are greeted by hard plate corals of all colors and clouds of fish including Tital Trigger Fish, Parrot Fish and Wrasses. From here, dive down through a swim through covered in soft corals and out onto an inverted wall swathed in pure white soft coral. Back up the stairway under the arches enveloped in white and purple soft corals. All types of Reef Sharks and Barracuda often visit this site.
	Fish Factory Level 2	Stunning hard plate corals, lots of ambient light, multicolored patches of soft coral, giant clams and swarms of reef fish at a depth of less than 60 ft/18m make this popular for photographers, beginners and experienced divers.
	Dolphin Bay Level 1	Located just a bay over, this drift dive is on the island wall. Resident eels and Lionfish make this a popular dive. Large fish like Snapper and Trevally make regular appearances.
	Coral Gardens Level 1	Nicknamed Nirvana and only a few minutes by boat from the Resort. Three fingers of lava once streamed into the ocean and are now covered with a variety of hard and soft coral species. Rays, Sharks and big schools of barracude are the keepers of the Coral Gardens.
	Yellow Fin Wall Level 2	Drift along this section of Vuna Reef and enjoy a fabulous vist of soft corals. Keep a watch on the blue for the namesakes of this site -- large Yellow Fin tuna that speed gracefully past in the company of other pelagic fish and turtles.
	Steve’s Corner Level 1	This dive site reveals a hug variety of soft corals feeding in the current. Turn the corner and come up shallow to enjoy a large archway swim through guarded by the resident Anemone Fish and filled with Ghost Coral.
	Vuna Chutes Levels 1 and 2	Sleeping White Tip Reef Sharks! An excellent second or third dive of the day. 12m(40 ft) to 15 m (50 ft) in depth. A beautiful white sandy path through Vuna Reef scattered with large bommies. Along with the sharks you will see blue spotted stingrays, turtles, moray eels, schools of barracude and batfish and small colorful reef fish.
	Fish Bommies Level 1	A fine dive location for divers of all experience levels. We often use this site for your first "checkout" dive with us. Gorgeous sloping white sandy bottome sloping from 6 m (20 ft) to 20 m (66 ft). Scattered with coral bommies, you can see everything here. White Tip Reef Sharks, Nurse Sharks, turtles, Manta and Eagle Rays, Parrot Fish, Garden Eels, Moray Eels and millions of small colorful reef fish.
	Tabua Level 2	Gently sloping hard coral bottome from 10 m (33 ft) to a wall that drops to 40 m (132 ft). Named for the shape of Vuna Reef, Tabua means Whale's Tooth. See schools of Barracudea, Trevally, Batfish, Tuna and Spanish Mackerel. As you cruise the "wall" you will sometimes encounter White and Black Tip Reef Sharks, Grey Sharks, Bronze Whalers and Bull Sharks. During the proper 'season' you can also see Manta Rays. Lobsters (Crays) also inhabit small houses on the wall.