Alex's Travel Blog » Oceania http://alexasigno.co.uk Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:10:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Beqa Lagoon, Fiji – Black & White Tip Sharks @5m http://alexasigno.co.uk/beqa-lagoon-black-white-tip-sharks-5m/ http://alexasigno.co.uk/beqa-lagoon-black-white-tip-sharks-5m/#comments Sat, 30 Jan 2010 23:15:08 +0000 Alex and Dorota http://www.alexasigno.co.uk/?p=678 Diving Beqa Lagoon (Pronounced Benga) was absolutely fantastic. I have never seen so many sharks before on a single dive. The sharks just swim gracefully around you as if you are not even there munching and crunching on their food.
This video is of our safety stop coming up from 30m after seeing the bigger sharks, here you can see Black and White Tip sharks swimming around. Even though they are small I got to realise the power these fish have when @3:08 a sharks fin flipped by my face and the water pressure knocked my mask.

]]> http://alexasigno.co.uk/beqa-lagoon-black-white-tip-sharks-5m/feed/ 7 -18.2341709 178.0851898 Bull shark feeding for Christmas planned in Fiji’s Beqa Lagoon http://alexasigno.co.uk/bull-shark-feeding-fiji-2/ http://alexasigno.co.uk/bull-shark-feeding-fiji-2/#comments Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:11:29 +0000 Alex and Dorota http://www.alexasigno.co.uk/?p=634 Dorota and I have just booked our flights, accommodation and diving for our Christmas trip to Fij. I’m really excited and can’t wait to get diving there. We’re not going for the tropical beaches, little islands and white sand, but to hand feed Bull and Tiger sharks. In fact we will get to see about 8 species of shark.

Over the past 15 years dive Operators have been chumming the water developing “Shark Reef”, a big fish site. It is definitely a predators playground now with some very large fat Bull sharks, along with Tiger sharks, Blacktip Reef Sharks, Whitetip Reef Sharks, Grey Reef Sharks, Silvertip Sharks, Tawny Nurse Sharks and Sicklefin Lemon Sharks. As well as Giant Grouper, Maori Wrasse, Rainbow Runners, Giant Trevally, Java Morays and Eagle Rays.

Shark Reef has been developed in collaboration with the local village who own the reef and has been turned into a National Marine park, and has now become a huge shark breeding ground.

We’ve booked our accommodation with the Lagoon Resort and our diving with Beqa Adventure Divers, so will let you know how we get on.

But in the meantime check out some of the videos here of diving in Beqa Lagoon. Shark feed diving and another
Beqa Lagoon shark feed

PatsOn has some great photos on Flickr

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