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The Maldives is renowned throughout the world as a top class diving destination. Loved by visitors for its charming natural beauty, the islands are ringed by white sandy beaches leading to turquoise waters and reefs where marine life is rich and diverse.
Mantas, sting rays, turtles, whale sharks, and various types of corals add vitality to the marine environment while multi-coloured fish enrich the unique diving experience. |
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Maldives is treasured as one of best diving destinations, it is the place where a diver’s dream come true. Diving safaris will lead you to exciting channel and spots hardly visited ever before. From a tourist resort, you can only dive areas that are easy to reach on a half-day or a full-day trip. But on a liveaboard, you wake up in your choosen destination. It is the best opportunity to discover the breathtaking beauty of the fascinating underwater kingdom (turquoise waters, delightful array of colourful marine life) known as the best underwater sceneries in the world. In other words it’s full of memories to treasure for a lifetime.
Lost in the middle of the Indian Ocean, the sumptuous atolls with these islands are almost the Garden of Eden.
Composed of some 1200 tiny coral reef islands, Maldives are small spots in the middle of the Indian ocean. The name is derived from Sanskrit, Marco Polo named them « flowers islands ».
Range on 754 km from North to South and on 118 km from East to West, its closer neighbours is Ceylon and India. With a population of almost 250.000 citizens living on several different islands, 202 islands remains inhabited and more that 100 islands are reserved for the tourism.
Maldives are formed from 26 natural atolls with more than 100 tiny islands each. Islands are surrounded with shallow lagoons bordered with a coral garden which provide some impressive underwater sight for the divers.
In the Maldives, a warm weather is experienced all over the year, the climate is conducted by the monsoon. However, being almost on the equator, monsoons are light compare to the next closer countries. The South-West monsoon, from May to October, brings some showers and winds, the North-East monsoon, from November to April brings the sun especially from January.
Maldives is a diver's paradise and has gained recognition as one of the top diving destinations of the world. It is home to some of the best dive sites in the world, some are well-known in the diving community. Yet even now it is only a tiny part of the country that has been explored by divers, and thousand of kilometres or reef still remains unexplored.
Reef life is prolific, with over a 1000 species of fish discover and classified, some of them endemic. Invertebrate species are certainly in their tens of thousands. Wherever you dive here you will be welcomed with a dazzling display of colours provided by the fish in their thousands, in a backdrop of equally attractive soft and hard corals.
Whether your interest lie in the multitude of dazzling fish species or the tiny creatures such as the brightly coloured flatworms, gardens of soft corals moving in unison with the currents or the interesting reef formations, the awesome manta ray and its cleaning ritual or coming face-to-face with a grey reef shark, the Maldives has it all.
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