Dive Sites
Some of the Best Dive Sites Features In Maldives
Site Name: Maagiri
Location: North Male’ Atoll
Features: A huge pinnacle, very shallow on top reef 10-15 ft, 3 ? 5 meters in depth. On one dive manageable to explore ½ of the pinnacle. Goes down to 30-35 meter. One part of the reef covered with sandy slope bed with over hangs with shallow depth of 15-20 meter
Coral Growth: Gorgonian, Anemone, Hard Corals and Soft horny corals
Fish Life: Very good ? Murray Eel, Lion Fish, Jacks snappers, Turtles, Angel fish, Eagle Rays. Etc.
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Site Name: Rainbow Reef
Location: North Male’ Atoll (tributary Channel)
Feature: A deep pinnacle which the top platen goes 10 meters ? 30 ft in depth. A drop off goes with over hangs at wall depth 15-20-25. the bottom of the pinnacle is 30-40 meter, 100-120 ft. Entire over hangs full covered with different colored soft corals. Generally strong currents.
Coral Growth: Especially for soft corals. Top reef hard corals.
Fish Life: Schooling Jacks, Red snappers, Eagle Ray, Lion Fish, Scorpion fish, Trigger Fish, Angel Fish, Butterfly fish. Etc..
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Site Name: Okobey Tila or Baracuda Giri
Location: North Male’ Atoll (inner reef)
Features: A huge pinnacle, which could explore ½ of the pinnacle on a dive. Shallow on platen 25-30 ft / 7 ? 10 meters in depth. Huge pile of 3 rocks sitting on the East side of the pinnacle at a depth of 110 ft / 35 meter .
Coral Growth: Soft Coral, Fielding soft coral, hard coral on top reef- Gorgonian wip corals.
Fish Life: V good ? Barracudas, Napoleon, Fusiliers, Bannet fish, trigger Fish, Jacks snappers, Angel Fish, Sweet lips, Reef sharks, scorpion fish. Etc..
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Site Name: Lankan Manta Point
Location: North Male’ Atoll (outer reef)
Features: Outer reef wall dive. Top reef 20-30 ft/ 7-10 meter, slope wall goes down to a bottom of 100ft/30 meter, very slope bottom goes to the deep sea. Huge 3 hat corals sitting on the side of the slope wall 15-28 meter.
Coral growth: Hard corals. Manta Cleaning Station.
Fish life: Mantas, huge schools of bulls eye fish, oriental sweet lips and napoleon wrasse, plus heaps of turtle and various species of moray eels. Etc.
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Site Name: Banana Reef
Location: North Male’ Atoll (inner reef)
Features: A small pinnacle which top reef is very shallow 10-15ft /3-5 meters in depth. A huge cave from 15 meter to 25 meter depth. As well running over hang at sitting on the side of pinnacle at a bottom of 100ft / 30 meter.
Coral growth: Hard coral and soft corals
Fish Life: Abandon all kind of fish life: Schooling snappers, sweet lips ? Napoleon, white tip reef sharks. Etc..
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Site Name: Victory Wreck
Location: Sitting next to the Airport (North Male’ Atoll)
Features: A 150 meter / 450 ft Cargo freighter went down on 1981. Sitting on the side south west side of the Air port at a depth of 45 meter -130 ft. the ship setting up right and the shallowest part the accommodation at a depth of 18metere ? 60ft.
Coral Growth: Hard corals, Patch Corals Black corals, tubastrea corals- acropora
Fish Life: Fusiliers, Jacks, Tuna, Batfish, Lion fish, Parrot Fish, clown fishes, scorpion fish etc..
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Site Name: Embudhu Express
Location: South Male’ Atoll
Features: Outer reef tributary pass, reef top shallow in depth 7 meter ? 21 ft slope wall goes down to the ocean- pass entrance ledge 35-40 meter. 110 ? 120 ft. Inner wall drop off with some over hangs. Inner reef bottom 35-110 ft with hard corals.
Coral growth: Hard corals.
Fish Life: V.good. Specially for bigger fishes- sharks, schooling jack, schooling Eagle Rays, Sting Ray, Barracuda, Napoleon, Tuna etc..
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Site Name: Kasimo Wreck
Location: South Male’ Atoll
Features: Inner reef pinnacle, fairly small which is able to explore around in one dive. A Japanese fishing trawler sitting at the base of the pinnacle at a depth of 25 -35 meter / 75 ft ? 110 ft. The top reef goes shallow in depth 10 to 3 meter
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