Your dream Dive destinations
Maldives is a beautiful island country with a chain of 20 atolls consisting of 1190 islands each surrounded by a unique coral reef and lagoons with different shades of blue. This country is one of the hottest locations for European vacationers. A big group of diving lovers are attracted to this place because of the beauty of its coral reef. The coral reefs here are enriched with brightly colored fishes and other marine life. Marine researchers call this place as Mecca of marine biology. These magnificent views are surely difficult to describe through words.
Diving season in Maldives is between the months of December to March and June to October. The visibility under water during the month of May and August will be low and this will reduce the number of accessible dive sites during this period. In Maldives we can choose either shallow reef gardens or round submerged reefs for diving. There is a possibility of drift dives during your diving expedition because the reefs between the channels will offer you this opportunity. Diving schools will be facilitated from each and every resort hotels in the country and they will also allow boats to search out the diving spots. Diving in Maldives is always colorful with the presence of species like giant whale sharks, grey reef sharks, hammer heads, napoleon wrasse, barracudas, snappers, jacks parrot fish, manta rays, turtles, frog fish, trigger fish etc and the availability of these species will depend up on the location you had selected for your dive.
The ministry of tourism of Maldives and most of the resort information department will provide detailed information about the diving locations and its specialties. Resorts are also providing professional diving instructors to assist the divers.
Attractive wreck diving locations in Maldives are the Fesdhoo wreck located to the central of Ari Atoll, the victory wreck lying at 35 meter depth a house for turtles, giant trevallies, groupers, fusiliers and jack fish. It is also providing good under water visibility and you can locate it near to hulule the airport island close to the capital, other noticeable wreck dive centers are Addu atoll were British royalty ship sank and liffey in Dhaalu Atoll. If you want to explore the rare marine species there is a location in the name of Banana reef. This reef is stretching from the north east to the south and it is shaped like a banana here we can watch out rare aquatic species, banner fish, mantis, shrimps and turtles. Another specialty of Maldives is the shark points. Sharks ranging from different size, shapes, and varieties are available in the underwater of this beautiful country.
Encountering and observing sharks are a frequently happening incident for divers. Some of the rare variety of sharks available here are whale sharks, the largest living fish, Tiger sharks which is having the worst reputation as man eaters, Spyrna lewini a type of hammerhead shark etc
The clear under water of the clean blue sea of Maldives and its colorful rare species will take each diver close to the magic of marine world.