Maldives waters are home to wide variety of ecosystems, but are most noted for their variety of colorful coral reefs, home to 300 species of fish. Seven species have been described as new to science, several more await description. Over 400 have been identified and catalogued and many are now held in the reference collection, including 5 species of turtles, 51 species of echinoderms, 5 species of sea grasses and 285 species of alga & sponges, crustaceans, and tunicates (Hoon, Chong, Roy, Bierhuizen, & Kanvinde, 1997).
The Maldives has been growing in popularity as a scuba diving destination ever since the 1970s when the number of resorts began to increase and people began discovering the Maldives as a holiday destination. Nowadays, the Maldives is firmly on the map as one of the world's most finest scuba diving destinations, together with Australia, Belize, Egypt, Indonesia and Thailand, to name a few.
The insider selection - favourite dive sites. I think that each of the dives described below is a once-in-a-diver's-lifetime experience. We like to see big, excited smiles on everybody's faces after each dive - that's why we love taking our guests to these magnificent places. There are plenty of other amazing sites in the Maldives and it wasn't easy to narrow our selection to only ten dive sites. Our Top Ten are just a taster of what you can experience on a cruise...
If you’re a diver that dreams of vacationing in paradise on Earth and sea, then Maldives is the place for you. These pearls of the Indian Ocean provide divers with an untouched, unexploited, underwater fantasy! This nation of 1200 islands is one of the world’s best diving spots, with it’s extreme variety of psychedelic colored marine life and sparkling white beaches...
Maldives waters are home to wide variety of ecosystems, but are most noted for their variety of colorful coral reefs, home to 300 species of fish. Seven species have been described as new to science, several more await description. Over 400 have been identified and catalogued and many are now held in the reference collection, including 5 species of turtles, 51 species of echinoderms, 5 species of sea grasses and 285 species of alga & sponges, crustaceans, and tunicates (Hoon, Chong, Roy, Bierhuizen, & Kanvinde, 1997).
The insider selection - favourite dive sites. I think that each of the dives described below is a once-in-a-diver's-lifetime experience. We like to see big, excited smiles on everybody's faces after each dive - that's why we love taking our guests to these magnificent places. There are plenty of other amazing sites in the Maldives and it wasn't easy to narrow our selection to only ten dive sites. Our Top Ten are just a taster of what you can experience on a cruise...