The Vibrant Soft Corals of Fiji

Say the word 'Fiji' in a room full of divers and you can watch as eyes widen and smiles begin to appear on suntanned faces.

The nation of Fiji is comprised of over three hundred beautiful islands in the South Pacific ocean. The unique topography, where towering green mountains drop straight into a crystal clear ocean fringed with coral reefs, has attracted tourists for decades. Newlyweds kick their feet up and watch sunset, surfers take shade inside racing emerald tubes and, most importantly for us, scuba divers and freedivers explore the reefs below the surface.

Names like the Bligh Waters, Namena, Beqa Lagoon and Taveuni roll off photographers' tongues inspiring the lust for adventure in those listening to their underwater tales.

Fiji has been written about so many times in so many dive magazines that photographer Andreas Goldhahn and I have decided to take a different approach in telling the story; we leave it to the photos.

Photographer Andreas Goldhahn captured the images below with the Nikon D500 or the Nikon D7200.

Enjoy!

Learn more about scuba diving in Fiji.

About the Photographer

Andreas Goldhahn is an underwater photographer based in Munich, Germany. An 8 year veteran shooter, Andreas has been traveling the world documenting the underwater world with both a Nikon D500 and Nikon D7200, accumulating over 500 dives in the process. You can see more of Andreas' work on his Facebook page.