Cruising Maldives - hop aboard the luxury liveaboard, Eagle Ray, for the dive safari of a lifetime - By Fiona Machintosh
If there's one place that you simply have to explore by liveaboard boat it's the Maldives. Dive safaris, as they're locally known, are the easiest and most rewarding way to check out the scattered groups of tiny island atolls and incredible reefs of this picture-perfect marine wonderland. And even if you don't dive or snorkel, there are few more idyllic holidays than cruising around the beautiful white sands and aquamarine lagoons of this Indian Ocean hideaway..more
Fantastic Dive Holiday Adventure In Maldives -
William Ungerman
Marine life was in clouds. Pelagics of all types. Schools of Dolphins underwater, a Scalloped Hammerhead and Mantas. Some divers saw many. My family saw three. Napolean Wrasse were like dogs. Eels were so plentiful they ceased to be a commodity. Giant, Green Zebra, Spotted Morays; they were all present. Mating octopus too. The dive profiles are relatively severe: deep and long with curents on most dives. Some currents were intense (to say the least). Diving is divided amng pinnacles, reefs, inner and outer walls of the atols that dot the azure waters. We were on the nine night/ten day itinerary which brought us to many fabled sites...more
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