Few boats know Fiji quite like Nai’a. After decades spent exploring its reefs, passages and remote islands, she takes divers well beyond the reach of the country’s shore-based dive resorts, combining exceptional local knowledge with the freedom to explore some of Fiji’s finest and most remote diving. The boat features 8 passenger staterooms, a massive main salon, dive deck, sun deck, dedicated camera room and stern dive platform.
Nai’a has set new standards of live-aboard luxury since her launch in 1993. Purpose-built of Dutch steel to carry a few lucky divers in utmost comfort, she was completely refit in 2010 with the latest technology and generous use of space. While many of Nai’a’s innovative design features are invisible to passengers, they ensure unlimited hot showers and staterooms that are always fresh and cool. This ship provides guests with all the comforts (and more!) of a quality land-based location - but with far superior diving and a new view every day.
The core of the Nai’a family is her Fijian crew. On each trip you'll be cared for by fourteen of the friendliest and most able sailors anywhere. (emperor)
Cabins
Lower deck: 8 air-conditioned staterooms – one with twin bunk, two doubles, two doubles with an additional single bunk, and three twin-flex cabins which can be made up as either a double or two single beds.
Boat Facilities
Lower deck: 8 fully air-conditioned cabins, all of which are en-suite.
Upper deck: Main salon serving as lounge and dining room with entertainment system and television. Dive deck. Large camera room. Extensive library of books, magazines and games.
Sundeck with comfortable loungers.
WiFi: Complimentary Starlink internet
Dive Facilities
Two divemasters and two dive instructors.
Dive deck: Spacious dedicated dive deck with individual equipment storage areas and high-capacity compressors.
Diving tender: Two 22ft rigid inflatables.
Dive equipment rental: Full range on offer; rentals must be arranged prior to arrival. All divers are required to use a dive computer and SMB for every dive and a torch each for night dives.
Dive tanks: Equipped with 12-litre Aluminium tanks.
PADI courses available: Skills Review, Advanced Open Water, Adventure Dives and Specialties.
Technical, re-breather, and side-mount diving available on request.
Medical: Oxygen, comprehensive First Aid, emergency signaling equipment, and AED available.
Camera facilities: Camera room with the latest provisions for professional and amateur photographers. Charging stations, work benches, freshwater rinse tanks and compressed air for cleaning equipment.
Safety & Technical Information
Type: Dutch-built steel hull
Length: 36m
Beam: 9m
Draft: 3.5m
Engines: Cummins KTA 19-M 500hp
Generators: 2 x Cummins 90 kW
Water Tanks: 29 tonnes
Water Makers: 5,000 litres/day
Navigation and Communication: Radar, GPS, Fish Finder, EPIRB, Compass, VHF Fixed, VHF Portable, MF Fixed, Starlink
Electricity: 110V and 220V multi-socket charging stations, 110V in cabins (US 2-pin / 3-pin)
Safety: CO2 engine smothering system, portable fire extinguishers throughout, smoke and carbon monoxide detectors throughout, electric firepump, flare kit, 10-person and 25-person inflatable liferafts plus twin 7-metre skiffs
Best of Fiji - 7 or 10 night trips
One of the only liveaboards in Fiji, NAI’A will take you beyond the reach of land-based diving and provide exclusive exploration of these incredibly diverse waters. Dive Fiji’s famous soft coral reefs, with colorful pinnacles, walls and swim-throughs throughout Bligh Water and the Koro Sea
Experience exhilarating pelagic action with grey reef sharks, eagle rays, barracuda and huge schools of fish, with chances of mantas and hammerheads
A huge variety of diving experiences like muck, walls, caves, coral gardens, wrecks, sea mounts and dive to the soundtrack of an underwater volcano.
Explore remote reefs well beyond the reach of most day boats, with seven-night and extended 10-night adventures taking you deeper into Fiji’s rarely crowded waters
ITINERARY DESCRIPTION
Fiji is known as the Soft Coral Capital of the World – and this itinerary takes you into the heart of the diving that earned that reputation. Bligh Water and the Koro Sea stretch through central Fiji, between and around its main islands, creating a vast playground of remote reefs, pinnacles and passages.
Travellng aboard NAI’A, you’ll explore sites where nutrient-rich currents feed spectacular soft corals and an extraordinary concentration of marine life. Sites such as E6 and Mount Mutiny rise dramatically from deep water, while Namena combines colourful reefs with the possibility of bigger pelagic encounters. At E6, swim through the Cathedral as shafts of sunlight filter down from above, while the right conditions at Nigali Passage can bring an exhilarating drift alongside grey reef sharks, schooling barracuda, trevally, snapper and eagle rays. Look more closely and there’s another world to discover, from nudibranchs and pipefish to hawkfish and clouds of anthias.
Available as 7-night and extended 10-night adventures, traveling by liveaboard opens up a side of Fiji that few visitors get to experience. NAI’A can reach well beyond the range of day boats, spending the week among remote reefs where other divers can be few and far between. The longer itinerary allows us to push into the remote, seldom-visited outer reefs of the Koro Sea where get a higher frequency of encounters with hammerheads, silky sharks, manta rays, and spinner dolphin.
* Intermediate to experienced divers (30 dives within previous year is strongly recommended)
The 7-night trip is best suited to confident divers who comfortable with currents and drift diving. You will complete around 20 dives which include offshore pinnacles, walls and channels where conditions can vary. The extended 10-night trip offers around 30 dives and ventures further into the remote Koro Sea. It is suited to experienced divers comfortable with varied conditions and multiple dives, with extra time to explore more distant reefs and revisit favourite sites when conditions allow.
* Contact us for dates, rates and availability. 
See what the trip is like HERE