Diving - Matamanoa Island Resort Fiji

Viti Water Sports - Dive School

Explore and discover Fiji’s glorious reefs.

Matamanoa is perfectly positioned to dive some fantastic coral reefs.
Nestled in the Mamanuca Island group, Matamanoa is surrounded by beautiful, pristine coral reefs that are marine sanctuaries, with breath-taking biodiversity including spectacular table corals, massive gorgonian fans, multi-hued reef fish of every shape and size, turtles and reef sharks. With over 40+ sites to choose from, Viti Water sports on Matamanoa offers a range of high quality diving from sheltered tranquil coral gardens to stunning walls and even a shark encounter.

Learn to dive in Fiji’s warm waters amidst teeming coral reefs.

Viti Water Sports - Matamanoa is a registered PADI 5 star dive centre with high quality equipment and experienced instructors on hand to offer you a gentle introduction to scuba diving or develop your existing skills.

PADI Discover Scuba Diving

An introductory dive experience course, including basic theory, pool session and a shallow dive (12m) along our stunning house reef. An opportunity to try scuba diving, at your own pace, in a spectacular tropical setting with an Instructor at your side.
Definitely an experience not to be missed! (1 day)

PADI Open Water Diver

The PADI Open Water Diver course will certify you as a PADI diver, enabling you to dive anywhere in the world. The course includes pool training sessions, academic modules and 4 open water dives on some of our beautiful coral reefs, often with an instructor all to yourself.
There truly isn't any better place to learn! (3 days)

PADI Advanced Open Water

This course is designed to improve dive skills to make divers feel more comfortable and knowledgeable in the water. The programme consists of 5 open water training dives. (3 days)

Viti Water Sports - Matamanoa also offers the PADI Rescue and PADI Dive Master courses and a range of PADI speciality courses including underwater photography, underwater Naturalist, AWARE Fish Identification amongst others. Please contact us if you require any further information on matamanoa@vitiwatersports.com

Dive sites

With over 40 different sites to choose from around the Mamanuca group ranging from shallow reefs, pinnacles, walls and drop-offs, shark encounters and wrecks – the options are endless!

Our sites range from 9 - 30 metres depth, although most dives are around 18 metres with shallower depths for repetitive dives.

Visibility is generally between 20 and 40 metres and water temperature ranges from 26 Celsius in winter (July/August) to 31 Celsius in summer (Jan/Feb).

Viti Water Sports – Matamanoa has a good range of modern rental equipment. We insist that all divers use safe, fully serviced equipment.

Fiji is fast becoming the diving capital of the Pacific and the advantage of diving with Viti Watersports is our proximity to some world class sites. Some of our particular favourites include:

Supermarket – World famous ‘Shark Encounter’ dive. This site has been featured in most leading dive magazines.

Gotham City – Batman doesn’t visit, but bat fish do guard this site which is a soft coral delight featuring all the colours of the rainbow.

Sherwood Forest – Four pinnacles rising out of the deep, the profusion of massive green sea fans gives this site it’s name.

Bird Rock Wall – Only a 2 minute boat ride from the dive centre, this stunningly encrusted wall offers up a kaleidoscope of colours and reef dwellers of every shape and size.

Outpost, Aquarium, Sunset & Lover’s Bay – Matamanoa’s infamous house reef, a marine protected area, boasts spectacular hard corals and a myriad of colourful marine critters. Ideal for photographers, beginners and night diving.

All dives are guided by fully trained PADI Dive Masters and Instructors.