tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-363243522026-03-05T08:09:16.032+12:00The Best Shark Dive in the World!Blog about "The World's best Shark Dive" by Beqa Adventure Divers.
Featuring up to eight regular species of Sharks and over 400 different species of fish, Shark diving doesn't get any better!Andrew Cumminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14675497080700112390noreply@blogger.comBlogger3239125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36324352.post-12435388634153842612025-09-12T20:40:00.050+12:002025-11-17T16:59:03.094+12:00Are Fiji's Sharks protected?Click for detail! Short answer?I wish - but no, not really! 😞 I thought I could happily enjoy my retirement, but no such luck. The massive pressure on our marine resources during the pandemic could, and indeed should have led to a moment of reflection and new beginnings.But instead, we're very much back to business as usual where instead of tackling the ever increasing DaSharkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06787762757245289307noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36324352.post-22360924990891777972023-05-31T22:22:00.040+12:002023-09-09T12:30:58.898+12:00Big Announcement!Click for detail!We got BIG NEWS! Read this - see it at the very end?We've finally moved into our very own custom-built premises on our very own little slice of paradise right next door to our previous location - yup, that would be those buildings with the blue roof, with more appearing as Google Earth gets updated!The new dive shop is everything we've ever wished for, and then some - this DaSharkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06787762757245289307noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36324352.post-84594840137393363592021-07-31T21:09:00.003+12:002021-08-01T18:26:31.301+12:00Bronze for Fijiana! Toso Viti - together we can! DaSharkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06787762757245289307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36324352.post-8495044649884553982021-07-28T21:35:00.006+12:002021-07-28T23:33:07.978+12:00Gold for Fiji! We've done it again! Huge congrats to the team.And to fellow Shark divers Gareth and Danielle! Toso Viti! DaSharkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06787762757245289307noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36324352.post-75556320179430959802021-07-12T12:17:00.014+12:002021-10-23T21:31:27.056+12:00Shark Rescue - Video!Silio: when he doesn't rescue Sharks or retrieve stolen cameras, he models for My Fiji Shark! Behold!
So, was that Shark asking for help?Who knows - but it sure looks that way, especially considering that she tried twice! And she definitely chose to come to the right person as Silio was personally trained by none other than our unforgotten Rusi, speaks Shark and knew exactly DaSharkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06787762757245289307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36324352.post-31212532026290447422021-07-05T15:39:00.002+12:002021-07-05T17:19:05.800+12:00Grenzenlos - Video!Toothy Bull by Ozzie Sam- click for detail! Behold! This was filmed just before the pandemic hit.I happened to be away, and it never made it to the blog - so there, as a memento of much happier times. Enjoy! DaSharkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06787762757245289307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36324352.post-86196956561015381662021-06-27T14:14:00.008+12:002021-07-20T17:04:39.326+12:00Do Bull Sharks have Friends? New Paper!Spoiler: maybe yes maybe not!Remember Mike's speculative hypothesis?In brief, I opined that as their prey is comparatively scarce, evolution would select for large predatory Sharks to be solitary in order not to have to share their kills. But whereas that appears to be largely correct for Tigers and Whites, anecdotal evidence and some papers (and here) indicate that Bull Sharks appear to DaSharkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06787762757245289307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36324352.post-68160640912400363792021-06-18T10:23:00.002+12:002021-06-18T15:43:29.880+12:00Surfing Reefies - Paper!Source. Very cool.But first, watch. This is DV footage from 2005, from an old edit.I was staying at Sané and Annabelle's epic Tetamanu Village and was fortunate to catch the magic moment when the sun reflects off the Sharks on an early morning incoming tide - and for you insiders, the first two clips are from the challenging trou aux requins in Apataki.
Notice how the Sharks are barelyDaSharkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06787762757245289307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36324352.post-26599115433017980172021-05-08T18:35:00.007+12:002021-05-13T09:55:20.528+12:00Shark Reef - Video!BRAT, way back then when life was easy. Behold! The virus is on the loose.Government is doing a truly fabulous job in containment and contact tracing - but as we all must play our part, we've all decided to home isolate, meaning that I've had plenty of extra time on my hands. So there.Filmed in 4K and down-sampled to ProRes 1080 due to my measly upload speed of 242 kbps DaSharkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06787762757245289307noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36324352.post-12782000955790336732021-05-08T13:00:00.003+12:002021-05-13T14:56:35.190+12:00Feeding and Conditioning Sharks - Video!Bingo. Remember this? And I cite,Let's not forget
the impact of the thousands upon thousands of people who feed and condition Sharks and other Fishes on a
daily basis, i.e. the fishermen and spearos!Case in point: And this is being repeated, mutatis mutandis, countless times wherever there are fishermen = all the time and everywhere!
Do you really believe that the incremental DaSharkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06787762757245289307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36324352.post-89841946840941852022021-04-05T20:38:00.030+12:002021-04-18T16:53:57.119+12:00Seaspiracy?So sorry!I hate to interrupt Tashi Blue's lovely positive messaging - but this just has to be. Yes I've finally watched that smug garbage.Fatally reminds me of similar Sea-Shepherd-fueled production by yet another spoiled, entitled and uninformed white dude a while ago - and I can certainly leave it at that. It's nothing but a vegan propaganda con job for and quite possibly, by Sea DaSharkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06787762757245289307noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36324352.post-1081674930538307872021-03-13T21:44:00.013+12:002021-03-15T21:06:49.640+12:00More Poaching on Shark Reef!Watch. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Beqa Adventure Divers (@thefijisharkdive) Damn those people.I knew that little friendly red Grouper.And those are some of our last Parrotfish, and seeing that dead Angelfish breaks my heart.But at least Tashi Blue was able to save that little Turtle.I know, it's not much, just a little Hawksbill - but it is DaSharkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06787762757245289307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36324352.post-56214439447869108252021-03-10T18:28:00.018+12:002021-03-13T06:54:01.610+12:00Fuvahmulah - Barbarians at the Gate!Plenty of Tigers guaranteed! Check this out.Great huh.I've been there a couple of years ago and can assure you that it is really like that, and even better, to the point that I've been trying to go back there ever since. Many ages ago I landed myself a nifty little job as leader of exploratory dive expeditions and check-out diver for new dive destinations that led me to explore some of the DaSharkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06787762757245289307noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36324352.post-57699710022696746602021-02-14T15:57:00.010+12:002021-02-17T16:25:12.310+12:00The Sharks of Shark Reef!Our forever unforgotten Rusi with probably Bum or possibly Crook. Behold!
Obviously the quality is what it is.But that was in 2007 when most of us were still filming in DV, and when the editing suites didn't quite have all of today's bells and whistles. Plus this is from a DVD we used to sell that had chapters and sub-chapters one could click on, hence the video's disruptive DaSharkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06787762757245289307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36324352.post-25354968941804762722021-02-09T21:26:00.011+12:002021-02-12T13:33:50.637+12:00Fiji - Vaccine?Watch this - yes all of it! This is Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum. Obviously, the pandemic has pretty much been an unmitigated economic disaster whereby whilst Government has done a truly fantastic job at keeping us safe, this has come at the price of shutting our borders = basically annihilating our foreign tourism industry that used to represent 40% of our GDP.The consequence has been a 19% DaSharkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06787762757245289307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36324352.post-32450738538787872882021-02-03T12:29:00.008+12:002021-02-09T16:03:16.608+12:00Monday Cyclone?Oh FFS. Here comes the next one. And sorry for all these cyclone post - yes this is a Shark diving blog but I trust that everybody understands that for us here, catastrophic weather events do supersede Sharks, at least temporarily!Back to the bloody cyclone.It really looks like much like anticipated, we might really be in for yet another one. Current forecasts anticipate a TD spawning DaSharkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06787762757245289307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36324352.post-64396476045279522262021-01-31T15:16:00.009+12:002021-02-01T20:50:36.301+12:00TC Ana!Ana, one hour ago. Well, well. This sure has been interesting.Ana has kept on strengthening and just as it was reaching the coast, it turned into a Cat2 and left a swath of destruction tracking right across Viti Levu before exiting somewhere in between here and Suva just an hour or so ago - and lemme tell 'ya it ain't over quite yet!We're mostly fine, but Pacific Harbour looks like a DaSharkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06787762757245289307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36324352.post-5351439641047027972021-01-26T21:07:00.010+12:002021-01-30T10:25:51.036+12:00Another bloody Cyclone?Source. And here we go again.Not that I'm in any way surprised.It has been unrelentingly hot hot hot, and this is now the unavoidable consequence - and to make matters worse, the forecast has an uncanny resemblance to the forecast for Yasa that subsequently completely changed course and ended up ravaging the North.There's good and bad news.The good news being that so far, it only looks like DaSharkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06787762757245289307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36324352.post-82942627594916796152021-01-04T00:25:00.013+13:002021-01-13T00:28:16.044+13:00Playing with Sharks!Source - and here - and here - click for detail! Hah - watch this.And here she is on Shark Reef in all her glorious pinkness, a couple of days later - watch in 1080 and full screen.
Of course she did stand out like a sore thumb. And of course she did catch the attention of our big, bold and very dominant Shark Icon Tip. Talk about being given a haircut - and then watch how her nephew DaSharkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06787762757245289307noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36324352.post-85711599226975321302020-12-28T16:59:00.004+13:002020-12-29T11:21:15.798+13:00Baby Lemon vs Barracuda!Source. Wow - watch. I guess one could say, such is life out there in the wild.But I'm particularly happy that the little Lemon made it out alive! Anyway, enjoy! DaSharkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06787762757245289307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36324352.post-61676844303753878122020-12-17T08:47:00.005+12:002021-01-26T20:55:44.692+12:00Yasa - Incoming!Source - click for detail! This is gonna be really bad.The track has indeed completely changed, and although we're not likely to feel the full brunt of the wind, we're still going to be much more at risk. You can follow the bloody fiasco in near real time here.See you on the other side! PS - we are a bit rattled but fine. Thank you so much for your support!DaSharkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06787762757245289307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36324352.post-18848755274330574182020-12-15T22:02:00.012+12:002021-01-22T14:59:55.077+12:00Fiji Bull Sharks - Paper!Yes those would be our samples - click for detail!Remember? That was then and alas, nothing much has come of it.For some reason that eludes me, Christine never got around to actually publishing the relevant paper, and a later attempt at resuscitating the effort failed due to a general lack of interest and/or funding and/or time, or whatever. Plus I've been told that nowadays, the newest and DaSharkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06787762757245289307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36324352.post-84543386536668803082020-12-14T15:36:00.015+12:002020-12-16T18:21:57.332+12:00TC Yasa!Click for detail!Bingo. TC Yasa is now a reality.Sadly, it also looks like it is highly likely that starting on Thursday, it will very badly affect the Yasawas, Nadi & Lautoka and then Vatulele and Kadavu - see the forecasts here and here.See at bottom! So far, it looks like we down here will fare better.But who knows as those tracks are fickle at best - plus, we will certainly DaSharkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06787762757245289307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36324352.post-72069524443749996162020-12-11T13:52:00.003+12:002020-12-11T13:57:04.765+12:00Bloody Cyclone! Well, as so often I was wrong.That cyclone forecast was very real.It's gonna be called Yasa and it's gonna linger forever = pick up strength around Vanuatu, and most certainly influence the weather in our West and also give us a good soaking down here, albeit with much lighter winds, once it starts tracking South.970 HP is approx a Cat 3 and it may even increase further.So be careful DaSharkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06787762757245289307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36324352.post-79519895443170734442020-12-07T14:19:00.001+12:002020-12-07T16:12:33.496+12:00Already?Well well - behold the first cyclone of the season!But it's obviously only a forecast and methinks it is wrong. But who am I to say. All of 2020 has been warmer than average and now we're in the middle of a La Niña which over here translates into a hot and wet summer, with possibly more cyclones.Be it as it may, it's a good time to get ready.Personally, I'm gonna trim the trees and DaSharkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06787762757245289307noreply@blogger.com0