BOAT FACILITIES

Main deck: Lounge; TV, book, music and movie library, board games, dining area and internationally stocked bar.

Upper deck: Comfy sofas and tables, dining area.

Sun deck: Deckchairs, sunbeds, bean bags.

WiFi: Data packages via a code are available to purchase on board. Please read terms of use.

DIVING FACILITIES

3 dive guides

Diving Dhoni: 20m tender with 3 staff, fully equipped with compressors, oxygen, comprehensive First Aid and AED and diving towels.

Dive equipment rental: Full range on offer; rentals must be arranged prior to arrival. All divers are required to use a dive computer, SMB and reef hooks for every dive and a torch each for night dives.

Dive tanks: Equipped with S80 (11.1 litre) Aluminium tanks as standard and C100 (13.2 litre) tanks on request. FREE Nitrox; up to 32% plus partial pressure system.

PADI courses available: Advanced Open Water, Adventure Dives and Specialties

Medical: Oxygen, comprehensive First Aid and AED available.

Camera facilities: Charging stations, air gun, rinse tanks and camera table

CABINS

Upper deck: 2 cabins with twin beds that can be adapted to doubles

Main deck: 1 cabin with twin beds

Lower deck: 3 cabins with double beds, 4 cabins with twin beds that can be adapted to doubles

Sharktastic - 7 nights (17 + dives)

Dive the best and most famous dive sites across Male and Ari Atoll. Jan-Apr South. Dive channels, pinnacles, action-packed night dive with nurse sharks, get up close at the cleaning stations without disturbing the locals!

Expect to see sharks, manta, reef fish, turtles, morays, eagle rays, abundant macro life. Possible hammerheads and whale sharks.

We don’t follow an exact itinerary; flexibility is key irrespective of the time of year you visit. This amazing underwater world is ours for the exploring.

In this period the clean ocean water flows in from the eastern side of the Maldives, This means currents running from Sumatra, Indonesia to the Maldives bring with them not just fantastic visibility up to 40m but a mass of nutrients for fish to feed which in turn attracts an array of pelagic marine life.

The Channel dives of the eastern coast of the Maldives are the main order of the day. These Kandus, as they are known in the local language (Dhivehi), attract grey reef sharks, dog tooth tuna and eagle rays as standard but look out into the blue and you never know what surprises await. The outer walls and corners of the channels in Vaavu and Meemu have the bonus of beautiful overhangs draping in the blues, yellows and pinks of the majestic soft coral.

After the adrenaline pumping channel dives of eastern Maldives we cross over to South Ari Atoll to look for the whale sharks around the Maamagili area and mantas at Rangali Madivaru (Dhivehi for Manta Place) among other great sites such as Kudarah Thila and Kudimaa Wreck.

Best of the Maldives - 7 nights (approx 20 dives)

Dive the best and most famous dive sites across Male and Ari Atoll. Dive channels, pinnacles, action-packed night dive with nurse sharks, get up close at the cleaning stations without disturbing the locals!

Expect to see sharks, manta, reef fish, turtles, morays, eagle rays, abundant macro life. Possible hammerheads and whale sharks.

We don’t follow an exact itinerary; flexibility is key irrespective of the year you visit, this underwater world is yours (and ours) for the exploring.

This is the Best of the Maldives – and it delivers exactly that. This is where you dive the best and most famous dive sites of the Maldives in a week of wonderful liveaboard diving across Male, Ari & Vaavu atolls.

Enjoy a dive holiday that gives you all you could wish for from the iconic sites of North Male, South Male, Ari & Vaavu Atoll. Awaiting you are channels (Kandus), pinnacles (Thilas) & cleaning stations where you have every chance of meeting mantas, a variety of sharks and mesmerizing marine life of so many varieties.

This itinerary gives you a marine mix of big fish such as shark and manta dives as well as reef dives, reef fish, morays and macro life. Get up close at the cleaning stations without disturbing the locals! One of the best known dive sites is Fish Head; a marine protected site, this medium size pinnacle has many resident turtles, huge schools of fusiliers being stalked by trevally and patrolling grey reef sharks. Overhangs and a large school of blue line snapper, the iconic reef fish of the Maldives make this a genuinely great dive.

Hanifaru & the North

Timed with new & full moon phases during July & October for best chances of Manta action.

Chance to snorkel the UNESCO World Heritage site of Hanifaru Bay.

Dive manta stations in the northern atolls of Lhaviyani and Baa plus renowned Kuredu Express and Kuredu Caves.

Expect to see, manta, turtles, grey reef sharks and whitetip reef sharks.

We’ve packed this itinerary with hotspots to hopefully give you manta sightings all week long. Sightings can’t be guaranteed but diving at this time means your chances are high.

This itinerary runs around the New Moon phase when tidal ranges are greater resulting in a greater flow of plankton into the world famous Hanifaru Bay, where the massive majestic mantas aggregate for a plankton feeding frenzy between July and October each year.

We sail from Male to the northern atolls of Lhaviyani, Baa (Hanifaru Bay) and Raa taking in the renowned sites of Kuredu Express, Labyrinth and Shipyard amongst many more.

As well as mantas, you can get close to turtles, grey reef sharks and whitetip reef sharks. One of the big attractions is the chance to encounter mantas feeding and cleaning.

Thanks to the currents that sweep plankton into the shallow lagoons, mantas follow in vast numbers to feed. Although diving is not permitted in the UNESCO World Heritage site of Hanifaru Bay, we are allowed to go in and snorkel with these gentle giants in the lagoon. After a manta has had its feed it needs to get cleaned, so we will take you to known manta cleaning stations in both North Male and Baa Atoll. So hopefully these will give you sightings all week long. Of course, sightings cannot be guaranteed but diving at this time means your chances are high.

*Please be aware the dive sites and areas mentioned in our itineraries are not guaranteed. They are subject to change based on weather conditions and are at the discretion of our cruise director/captain. This is to ensure we provide the best sightings and activities possible during your dive experience while also prioritizing your safety.

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