Volunteer work in Fiji: Diving in Fiji

Diving in Fiji: Volunteer Work in Fiji

Diving in Fiji: Volunteer Work in Fiji

You will spend the first two weeks diving in Fiji, improving your diving skills through a scuba diving course, which includes 30 underwater dives. After you have completed the PADI diving course, you will begin your volunteer work in Fiji.

During your volunteer work in Fiji on the Island of Savusavu, you will work in an ocean conservation project in a long-term study concerning the construction of a “Marine Protection Area”. You will use the new scuba skills you learned during the first two weeks of diving in Fiji during your volunteer work. Among other tasks, your volunteer work in Fiji will include:

• Recording fish populations
• Helping to contain the crown-of-thorns starfish, which poses a danger to the coral reefs of the Asia Pacific area

As you continue diving in Fiji, you will help to survey the ocean conservation areas and will study the condition of the reefs. Aside from this, you will regularly go diving in Fiji in order to clean the ocean floor around the yacht ports and shipyards in Savusavu, and will remove fishing lines, which get twisted around the local reefs.

Depending on the time of year you choose to do volunteer work in Fiji, you may have the option to teach English at a local school or pre-school. The children here live very insular lives, and know only very little about the rest of the world. Please note, we cannot guarantee that you will have the opportunity to teach. Aside from teaching and diving, your volunteer work in Fiji could include helping communities clean up their surroundings, helping with maintenance and repair work, and offering support in local development projects.