Fiji Times Friday 26 May 2017 WATERS in the Northern Lau Group may contain Fiji’s solution to boost its tourism industry after a team of divers and coral experts identified many world-class dive sites in the area.
The team, from the Wildlife Conservation Society and the Vatuvara Foundation, included coral reef expert Helen Sykes, who has dived in many sites around the world.
Ms Sykes labelled the dive sites they discovered in Yacata, Cakaudrove, Kaibu, Kanacea, Vatuvara and Adavaci as stunning.
“The sites are hidden underwater jewels of Fiji with lots of “spur and groove” structures, crevices, steep walls, small caves with sleeping sharks, and highly vulnerable species like groupers, hump head wrasse and hammerhead sharks,” she said.
“In these places, the marine life was clearly diverse, abundant and thriving.”
In an earlier statement, the foundation’s director, Katy Miller, said the islands in the Lau Group were largely unexplored. Read more…
