Fiji night scuba diving: The underwater milky way

By Catherine Marshall
Updated July 1 2015 - 12:13pm, first published June 28 2015 - 12:15am
View from the Island Hoppers plane, Fiji. Photo: Catherine Marshall
View from the Island Hoppers plane, Fiji. Photo: Catherine Marshall
Jean-Michael Cousteau Vanua Levu pool.
Jean-Michael Cousteau Vanua Levu pool.
Coconut trees and bures at Jean-Michel Cousteau Resort.
Coconut trees and bures at Jean-Michel Cousteau Resort.

By day, the ocean off Fiji's second-largest island of Vanua Levu is a bright and sun-licked playground, filled with fish whose scales are painted in stripes and swirls and dots of colour. But night comes, sucking the light from the sea and turning it into a dark and inky cauldron.

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