South Pacific Dive Vacations for the Luxury Traveler

An exciting variety of South Pacific Luxury Dive Vacations are available via TravelWizard.com. With over 30 years of underwater experience our team of well traveled dive specialists can prepare the dive vacation of a lifetime.

Moorea Dive Vacations: Best known for fish and shark feeding. The "Napoleon Plateau" site has large Napoleon fish up to 100 lbs., as well as sharks. The "Canyon" and "Shark's Dining Room" offer exciting shark and eel feeding. Above the surface, this lush island with a rugged volcanic interior is a fascinating playground; why not try a 4-wheel drive tour?

Try the Sofitel Moorea Beach Resort with luxury over water bungalows and an onsite dive shop with a friendly and very knowledgeable staff.

Huahine Dive Vacations: "Avapehia Pass" has large numbers of fish and offers the possibility to see the giant black sea bass, weighing up to 400 lbs. Enjoy large schools of barracuda, jack, and spade fish are also present, and occasionally there is an opportunity for shark feeding. The "Coral City" site features formations rising 10 feet off the bottom, plus 15 lb. red snapper which are fed by hand. Above the surface, interesting Polynesian archeological sites and sacred maraes await visitors.

Try the Te Tiare Beach Resort with a low key atmosphere and luxury beach bungalows with excellent diving outside your bungalow door.

Taha'a & Raiatea Dive Vacations: A great dive destination, good for beginners through experienced divers. The "Teavapiti Pass" has a magnificent school of rainbow runners, plus sharks which are fed by hand. The "Japanese Garden" offers nice coral and reef fish in only 10 feet of water. "Napoleon Cliff" is a coral wall, with red squirrel fish jammed into its crevices, frequented by giant Napoleon wrasse. The "Raiatea Aquarium" features diverse fish, numerous large, tame moray eels, and Juliet - a 4-foot barracuda that will pose a foot or two away for photos.

Try the Le Taha'a Island Resort & Spa an ultra exclusive private island resort with first class diving and an incredible spa.

Bora Bora Dive Vacations: Under the most beautiful lagoon in the South Pacific is a diver's paradise! "Manta Ray Lagoon" features up to a dozen manta rays. The "Hotel Bora Bora Lagoon" features masses of beautiful butterfly fish, moray eels, and a drop off frequented by leopard rays. The "Outer Reef Aquarium" has many marine creatures including moray eels and giant trigger fish. After you surface, you can head for a drink at the famous Bloody Mary's.

Try the Bora Bora Dive Resort by TOPdive a boutique dive resort with a dive center on the resort offering PADI Certification for beginners and advanced dives for the more experienced.

Manihi Dive Vacations: The "Pass Drift" offers manta rays and incredible numbers of Moorish idols. The outer reef offers numerous locations with nice coral as well as plenty of fish. The "Pass Entrance" has a notable collection of marbled grouper during mating season. For a real thrill, try "shooting the pass," an exciting drift dive!

Try the Manihi Pearl Beach Resort with the Manihi Blue Nui Dive Club located on the property.

Rangiroa Dive Vacations: Aquaculture at natures finest, and some of the best diving in French Polynesia, awaits beneath this atoll's lagoon. The Avatoru and Tiputa Passes are virtual freeways of fish traveling between the open ocean and the lagoon. Average conditions are not for the inexperienced. "Napoleon-Manta Ray Point" is at the entrance to Avatoru Pass, with impressive Napoleon fish and magnificent manta rays. "Motu Fara Pass" has interesting terrain and fish life. "Mahuta" is a showcase for barracuda, jack, surgeon fish and grouper. "The Avatoru and Tiputa Aquariums" are two locations where fish congregate, and famous "Tiputa Shark Point" is an electrifying dive with grey reef sharks, usually done as a drift dive.

Try the super romantic Hotel Kia Ora Sauvage a stunning property located off-the-beaten-tourist-path and set on the coral islet of Avearahi Motu.

Fiji Dive Vacations: Fiji is renowned for some of the best scuba diving in the world. With spectacular corals, caves and grottos, and amazing marine life that includes large pelagic species such as shark, tuna and turtles. With 333 islands surrounded by reefs and the entire spectrum of  underwater terrain, from sharks, rays and 1000 species of fish to the vivid rainbow of  soft corals, sea stars and myriad shrimp, one word does describe Fiji’s extremely diverse diving…color! Scuba diving is available at, or nearby, most resorts, and most offer introductory lessons as well as dive boat excursions daily.

There are many excellent luxury dives resorts in Fiji, the most well known being the Jean-Michel Cousteau Fiji Islands Resort on Savusavu in Vanua Leva. It is the quintessential dive resort in Fiji.

Samoa Dive Vacations: Scuba diving is still a very new tourist activity in Samoa, which gives divers a virtually untouched territory to tap in to. Just as well, because both Upolu and Savai'i have fabulous dive spots, sporting around 900 fish species, including spinner dolphins, stingrays and whales. To make their rich marine world more accessible to visitors, sites and facilities are now beginning to open up, and on Upolu, where the fish-densest reefs are situated along the South Coast, the number of companies offering dive excursions is rising rapidly.

Try Aggie Grey's Lagoon, Beach Resort & Spa a beautiful property offering scuba lessons as well as exciting dives.

Cook Islands Dive Vacations: Diving in the Cook Islands offers crystal clear waters, seldom less than 100ft visibility water temperatures between 75 and 85 degrees Fahrenheit (24-30C), and in our case pleasantly short trips to and from our various dive sites. Diving in the Cook Islands offers drama, diversity, brilliant, lavish panoramas, deep water rich with food, and hiding places for the mysterious and rare. Some Dive operators based in Rarotonga provide onboard dive excursions to the islands of Manuae and Takutea as these areas are now really untouched.

On Raratonga try Pacific Resort & Villas fronting a beautiful white sand beach, turquoise lagoon and conveniently situated close to outstanding dives. On Aitutaki try the Aitutaki Lagoon Resort & Spa located on its own secluded islet on the edge of the stunning Aitutaki Lagoon, this charming resort provides a warm Polynesian atmosphere and fabulous diving close by.

Dive shops on most South Pacific islands schedule two sessions of diving each day: one in the morning and one in mid-afternoon. Since dives are frequently deeper than 60 feet, this allows time for the required surface interval, as well as time to enjoy the facilities of your island resort. Two-tank dives are uncommon, and it's unusual to fit more than two dives into one day … but don't worry, there are plenty of island activities to keep you busy, from snorkeling and skin diving, to 4-wheel drive safaris, to Polynesian feasts! PADI certification available for newbies to scuba diving at many of the resort dive centers.

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