The Fiji Shark Lab was once a dream held by Natasha D. Marosi, Director of Conservation for Beqa Adventure Divers, a shark conservation group and eco-tourism dive operator specialising in shark encounters.  Beqa Adventure Divers was responsible for the creation of Fiji’s First National Marine Park the ‘Shark Reef Marine Reserve’ in 2014.  Natasha’s is currently conducting her PhD with the University of Exeter researching social behaviour in the Bull Sharks of the Shark Reef Marine Reserve.  

Mentored by Mike ‘Da Shark’ Neumann, BAD’s founder, Natasha aspired to relentlessly pursue BAD’s objectives of shark and ocean conservation and research. In 2018, her very first conservation project ‘My Fiji Shark’ was launched with support from the United Nations Development Programme.  My Fiji Shark is a shark adoption program, giving people all over the world the opportunity to step into the private world of named individual sharks, learning about their life histories and personalities while supporting conservation projects on the ground in Fiji, and funding research.

In 2023, The Fiji Shark Lab was born!   The Fiji Shark Lab is located on base of Beqa Adventure Divers in Pacific Harbour, Deuba on the main island of Viti Levu in Fiji.  The Fiji Shark Lab is a field station dedicated to the research, conservation and preservation of Fiji’s shark and ray populations and ocean biodiversity.  Our mission is to advance our scientific knowledge of sharks and rays; support new conservation measures in support of sharks and rays; to provide education and outreach; and to share the results from our field work through public dissemination.

Construction of the Fiji Shark Lab was supported by My Fiji Shark, the Global Fund for Coral Reefs, and United Nations Development Programme. 

The Viti Leucas Society known as the Fiji Shark Lab is a Charitable Trust (Registration No. 1375) pursuant to the Charitable Trust Act 1945, Fiji.