Dive Differently.
At Dive Academy Fiji, we optimise for experience — not volume. You dive with a maximum of four guests per boat, guided by PADI Divemasters and snorkelling guides who know this reef intimately. Every course supports a local scholarship, and 4,000 corals planted in our nursery are proof of our commitment to the bay we call home. Award-winning, community-rooted, and genuinely invested in what happens here. And yes, from here we can dive the famous Great White Wall on almost every day.
4 divers per boat
Maximum four guests per boat — no compromise. Your PADI Divemaster can focus entirely on your group, read the conditions, and take you to the right site at the right moment.
5 min to the White Wall
The closest operator to the Great White Wall. All other sites only 5-15 minutes away. The proximity and small groups allow a more flexible dive plan. We can time the White Wall on almost every day - sometimes even by night.
Night Dives
The Wall at night is a different experience entirely. We are the only operation in the area offering guided night dives on the Great White Wall.
1 Single Tank Dives
We return to the resort between every dive. That means you can book single tank dives — one at a time, at your pace. Two morning dives, optional afternoon or night dives - or more time to relax. Your day, your combination.
1 PADI Freedive Center
Freediving is not about holding your breath. It's about learning to calm your mind, relax your body, and find that extra moment below — safely and with confidence.
#1 Dive Resort in Fiji
Rated #1 Dive Resort in Fiji by Fiji Pocket Guide 2025. TripAdvisor Travellers' Choice every year since 2021. Multiple PADI Certificates of Excellence. The recognition comes from guests and students — not marketing.
Explore
The Rainbow Reef
Rainbow Reef stretches between Vanua Levu and Taveuni and is consistently rated among the world's top dive destinations. The blocks of reef function like funnels, channelling tidal currents that bring nutrients and support an extraordinarily healthy ecosystem — vibrant soft corals, reef fish in abundance, turtles, sharks, rays, barracuda, nudibranchs, and macro life. Around 30 sites, from shallow coral gardens, ideal for snorkelling to walls dropping beyond 60 metres.
Diving here is highly dependent on the tidal schedule. Each site has its own optimal timing — you cannot simply go anywhere at any time. Our experienced guides select sites based on conditions, the tide, your experience level, and wish list. Our location at the heart of the reef, and the flexibility that comes with small groups and short boat rides, means we can find the right site at the right moment — on every dive.
The Great White Wall
A tunnel entry at 9–12m opens into a lava tube, emerging onto a near-vertical wall of white Dendronephthya soft corals that drops beyond 60 metres. The white colouring is distinctive — these corals don't rely on sunlight but extend their tentacles to feed on plankton when the current flows. When conditions are right, it looks like snow under water. Advanced divers can explore the deeper areas; Open Water divers can exit the tunnel at 15 meters and see the drop-off from shallower depths.
The White Wall is just outside Viani Bay, one of our closest dive sites. That means we can offer the Wall on almost any day by adapting our schedule to the tidal times and run guided night dives that no other operation in the area offers. Inside the tunnel: schools of squirrelfish, scorpionfish. On the wall: nudibranchs, shrimp, lion fish. And in the blue schooling fish and occasional sharks or manta rays.
Rainbow Reef
A few more examples of our underwater wonderland.
Rainbow's End and Passage
When timed right, these two sites are the most colourful on the Rainbow Reef. Soft and hard corals teaming with life, schooling fish, Napoleon Wrasse with its entourage, sharks, turtles.
top reef 5-7m, sandy bottom in 20m
suitable for all levels
The Zoo
A wall dive worth keeping an eye out into the blue: 3 species of barracuda, Giant Trivially, Grey Reef Sharks, White Tips and the occasional hammerhead, eagle rays. With stronger currents, we hook in to enjoy the scenery.
typical depth: 15 - 25m
suitable for all levels, depending on current
Jerry's Jelly
You could spend the whole dive at the bommie at 9 meters. But then, the reef awaits with soft corals, tomato clownfish, schooling banner and black tooth trigger fish, too many species to name them all.
typical depth 15m
suitable for all all levels
Freediving
One Breath.
The whole Reef
Freediving is not about holding your breath or breaking records. It's about learning to calm your mind, relax your body, and find that extra moment below — safely and with confidence.
Courses are led by Jone Waitaiti — one of the first PADI Distinctive Advanced Freediving Instructors in the world, trained by world record holder Christian Riedel in Germany. He brought that discipline home to Fiji, and the Rainbow Reef. Dive Academy Fiji is the only PADI Freediving Centre at the Rainbow Reef.
PADI FREEDIVER COURSE
650 FJD
PADI ADVANCED FREEDIVER COURSE
650 FJD
Recreational Freediving, 2 hours
150 FJD
Courses include PADI eLearning & certification fee, equipment, Min 2 PAX. Typical course duration 2 days.
Dive & Snorkel Prices
Concierge diving, four divers per boat, surface break back at the resort, all guides are PADI Pros, exit without gear on a ladder.
The top reefs are snorkellers' territory too — drift over coral gardens, peer into the deep, and you may find that snorkellers get the best encounters. Mantas, turtles, and dolphins come right to the surface.
guided boat dive Rainbow Reef (per dive)
guided night dive Rainbow Reef
2-tank dive Vuna Reef (5h)
guided snorkelling Rainbow Reef (per site)
guided Freediving Rainbow Reef (2h)
Manta Excursion Rabi (snorkel) (5-6h)
Coral & Giant Clam Nursery (snorkel)
unguided shore dive (day)
unguided shore dive (night)
200 FJD
220 FJD
450 FJD
80 FJD
150 FJD
390 FJD
60 FJD
50 FJD
80 FJD
Equipment rental per piece/day
GoPro Rental with housing and strap per day
15 FJD
75 FJD
Prices in FJD incl. VAT. Snorkelling gear, tanks, weights, surface break included. Min 2 PAX.. Private boat on request. Prices subject to change in case of circumstances outside our control.
Day Guests Welcome
You don't have to stay at the resort to enjoy the only small group diving on the Rainbow Reef.
Once you made the way to Viani Bay, you are welcome to book in for lunch, come coral farming or just enjoy the scenery before heading back.
Free pick-up and drop-off at your vessel for dive and snorkelling trips, single tank dives, night dives, and PADI courses. Get in touch before you arrive to check availability.
From Taveuni
Car or taxi to Wairiki (20 min from Matei area taxi 30 FJD per way).
We pick you from Wairiki with our boat,
20 min to Viani Bay, up to 4 PAX, 260 FJD return boat fare.
From Savusavu
Car or taxi to the end of the road in Waikava. 1h10 from SVU airport, taxi 120 FJD per way.
We pick you from Waikava with our boat,
40 min to Viani Bay, up to 4 PAX, 320 FJD return boat fare.
A one-hour boat ride from Viani Bay takes you to Rabi Island, where a stable population of manta rays feeds and visits cleaning stations from April to November. Mantas can be identified by the pattern on their belly. If you get a shot, we will send it to the Manta Project Fiji database. And if your individual is not listed yet, you can name it. Recording the sightings helps to learn more about this gentle giants of the ocean.
This is a snorkelling and freediving trip — not a scuba dive. It includes a surface break on Rabi Island's beach. Price 390 FJD per person.
Seasonal only: April - November
PADI Courses
Whether you want to try diving for the first time, earn your PADI certification, or advance your skills with our PADI Specialties — we are here for you. But be warned, you are learning on one of the world's great reefs.
Our youngest students blow their first bubbles at the age of 8 - while others get certified divers at their golden age.
Your PADI Instructors
Marina is a PADI IDC Staff Instructor and can teach up to PADI Assistant Instructor. She runs most of the scuba dive courses. Jone is a PADI MSDT and PADI Advanced Freediving Instructor, focusing on Freediving. They are supported by their in-house trained PADI Divemasters.
Both regularly receive PADI Certificates of Excellence based on the feedback of their students. They are internationally trained with thousands of dives and hundreds of certifications, together they offer the widest range of PADI Specialties in the area.
Every booking supports our Scuba Scholar Program.
Your Safety Covered
Rental equipment up to date and serviced
Weight integrated BCDs
Bauer Compressor
Air quality indpedenently analyzed
Extended first aid kit on the boats
DAN Oxygen kit on the boat and ashore
EFR and Emergency Oxygen Instructors
Dive Pros EFR certified and trained in providing emergency oxygen.
Our dives and courses are conducted according to PADI Standards and industry best practices with focus on safety and environmental protection. Nevertheless, accidents and health issues can happen. And no matter how well we are prepared, this is a remote area. The next hospital is on Taveuni and the next chamber in Suva. We strongly recommend to have comprehensive Dive Accident and Travel Insurance.
Divers Alert Network (DAN) offers annual plans as well as short term insurance from one day. Dive course participants are covered under our DAN Business Insurance.
