Diving with Tyrone Valentine is part of the adventure
As one of the early pioneers and developers of Taveuni & the Somo Somo Sraight into a superb diving destination, Tyrone Valentine brings vast experience to his personally owned diving operation. Tyrone received the prestigious SSI award for 12,000 dives and by now has laid claim to at least an estimated 15,000 safe and successful dives, making him the most experienced active Dive Operation Owner on the Rainbow Reefs.
Tyrone Valentine, one of Fiji’s most experienced, Dive Master/Instructors has opened his own operation, the first in Taveuni locally owned and operated by a Fijian.
Tyrone has designed the ultimate dive adventure created for the experienced diver. Tyrone works with a small group in order to provide a diving experience in which the only limitation in the pursuit of the diver’s diving passion is their own personal experience and safety. Tyrone’s personal attention is geared for divers who want to take a leisurely day trip on their own terms to indulge in the diving adventure of their choice, be it drift dives, current dives, deep dives, exploration dives, underwater photography or the Zen of a relaxed dive, he will put you in the right spot under the best conditions.
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The Rainbow reefs are world famous simply because they represent spectacular, world class tropical diving! This reef structure stretches over 10 miles of coast line between Taveuni and Vanua Levu. These spectacular sites lie beneath the waters of the Somosomo Straits. The unique combination of location and reef configuration creates an optimum tidal current. Combined with a stable water temperature, this special area has created the perfect conditions for a vast variety of hard and soft corals in a profusion of multi-colors, textures and types. The reefs are teeming with marine life from nudibranchs, anenomies, and pelagics to reef fish, turtles and some rarer finds like Blue Ribbon Eels. A varied reef topography lends a unique quality to each dive site. Bommies, walls, tunnels, drop offs, and big fields of reef are just a few of the different types of undersea formations in the straits. This ideal spawning field created World Class dive sites such as The Great White Wall, Annies Bommie, Yellow Grotto, The Ledge, Blue Ribbon Eel Reef, Ogo, Fish Factory and more. The average diving depth varies from 45 to 125 ft (15-40 meters).
Combine Tyrone’s extensive knowledge from 25 years of diving Fiji’s reefs, with the legendary, world famous and pristine rainbow reef, and one is assured the ultimate diving experience with Tyrone Valentine’s Diving Taveuni for a personal encounter with Fiji diving that will be long remembered and cherished.
