Diving In The Maldives

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The Maldives feature some of the richest diving coral reef areas. With visiblity of as much as fifty metres and over 3000 coral reefs home to thousands of marine species, it is another world to explore.

If you are an experienced diver or want to experience scuba diving for the first time, all the resorts and liveaboards provide basic and advanced training from expert dive instructors.

Top 10 Dive Sites In The MaldivesBack to top

Banana Reef

One of the most popular and the first diving spot to be discovered, this is reef is the perfect habitat for a diverse range of marine life and corals on the reef slopes.

Attractions: Home to Napoleon Wrasse, Moray eels and blue striped snappers.

Girifushi Thila

Attractions: Grey reef sharks, tuna and corals of various hues such as yellow, blue and orange makes this a stunning dive site.

Kuda Haa

Attractions: Sharks hover the shallow areas and blue sniped snappers roam deeper. Fusiliers and butterly fish can be spotted. And keep an eye out for moray eels, leaf fish, cleaner shrimp and the rare scorpion.

Lion's Head

Attractions: Sharks, turtles, tunas and beautiful hard and soft corals make up this environment.

Middle Point

Attractions: Gray reef sharks, Silver sharks, and white tip sharks.

Nasimo Thila

Attractions: Napoleon Wrasse, Squirrelfish, Orange Fairy Basslets, Scorpionfish, Butterfly fish, Turtles and Red Groupers.

Okebe Thila

Attractions: Oriental Sweetips, barracudas, Napoleon Wrasse, batfish and jacks .

Rasdhoo

Attractions: Hammerhead Sharks, Big dog tooth tunas, dolphin fish and the red snapper.

Rasfari

Attractions: Gray reef sharks, Eagle rays, Silver tip and White tip reef sharks, Giant barracudas, tunas and napoleon wrasses, blue-striped snappers and surgeon fish.

Sunlight Thila

Attractions: Giant Manta rays.

 

 

List of Dive Spots in the MaldivesBack to topBack to top

Alif Alif Atoll

Alif Dhaal

Baa Atoll

Dhaalu Atoll

Faafu Atoll

Haa Dhaalu Atoll

Lhaviyani Atoll

Male' Atoll North

Male' Atoll South

Vaavu Atoll

 

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