08/24/2026
The Great Outdoors Adventures, "FIJI SHARK DIVING ADVENTURE", at the Beqa Shark Dive, aka "The World's Greatest Shark Dive" at the Shark Marine Reserve, Beqa Lagoon, Fiji! Monday, August 3rd, Dive #2, at "The Bistro"! After our surface interval, we once again dropped into the water and quickly descended down to 60 feet to line up against the wall along the bottom.
On this second dive, the Bull Sharks were really starting to come in now. I counted up to 4-5 of them, including "Scarface", the most recognizable Bull Shark in the reserve. The Nurse Sharks were there again in plenty and once they let the chum go, it quickly became a feeding bonanza, and complete frenzy. The dive masters though were close by with their poker sticks in hand, just in case.
The Bull Sharks were huge and massive! Here in the shark reserve they are finding that the sharks coming at this time of year are mostly pregnant females and you can see that in their round bellies. From here in the reserve, they believe the female Bull Sharks will swim up to safer waters such as rivers in order to give birth to their pups. Shark pups have a very low survival rate overall but in these types of secluded areas they will grow up and then they believe will eventually return to the ocean.
On this day at the Beqa Shark Dive in the Fiji Shark Marine Reserve, we discovered that Bull Sharks are not in fact monsters or killing machines, but are very curious creatures that do not have very good eye sight. As they started coming into the arena in greater numbers, on occasions they would swim directly and up close to us. Scary at first, absolutely until you realized they were just checking things out and not trying to attack you.
In all, it was an awesome and amazing experience of a lifetime! Diving with Bull Sharks was absolutely scary at moments, yes! But our fear was quickly replaced with complete awe and wonder, leaving us with a total respect and appreciation for the beautiful and incredible creatures that they are, that are often misunderstood but are vitally important for a healthy and balanced ocean environment! ππ¦
