Diving Maldives

The Maldives is known as one of the world's greatest dive destinations and almost the whole country can be dived. The island of Maldives is a low lying country and the highest point is only 2.4m above sea level.

The Maldives is made up of 1,190 islands stretches 800km from North to South, diving can be done from day trips or liveaboards. Out of the 1,190 islands only around 200 have people on them and most visitors will spend time on the 89 resort islands.

Visitors will land at the capital called Male from where they can take a sea plane what they call an air taxi or a boat if you're staying at North Male or South Male. The capital is a nice place to see the lifestyle of the locals but most people just land and move on to their resort.

There really are thousands of dive sites around the Maldives and the locals have developed an extensive vocabulary for the various types of reef islands. A faru, for example will mean the reef sticks out the water at low tide, while a falhu is a reef that encircles a lagoon. A thila is a coral pinnacle that does not quite reach the surface.

The diving is all year round, with live-aboards doing different routes depending on the winds. Normally one side of the Maldives as good visibility while at the same time the other side has poor visibility, but the murkier plankton rich waters are where you will see the whale sharks and manta rays.

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