The diving school is located at the end of the jetty and gives easy excess to the house reef where abundant reef fish swirl around, feeding on plankton and algae’s, giving a glimpse away of the unlimited beauty underneath the surface.

New stag horn, table and red brain corals are a clear sign of the recovery of the reef and host of many restless damsel fishes, the gracious butterfly and royal angel fishes.

The most interesting part of the reef is between 6 and 16 meters depth, stretching to the south until a large sandy hill, at one of the last coral blocks, just before the sand a precious surprise is waiting for the people with a sharp eye, two leafy leaf fishes.

During the dive there is a chance to see eagle rays, stingray, turtles or a bypassing manta

OLHUVELI HOUSE REEF NORTH

The North side of the house reef is more steep with larger table corals and apart from a homeless big job fish staring at a school of humpback snappers, a rather wide spread bat fish family, from grand father to juvenile, likes to play with the bubbles of the divers and come breathtaking close.

Schools of juvenile tunas and barracuda nose around and might accompany you for a while.

The current on the house reef is nil which makes it ideal for videography and photography.

During the North East monsoon from December until May mantas come to the end of the jetty at night to feed on plankton that is attracted by the light.

MAADHOO MULI

On the doorstep of the deserted Island Maadhoo starts an amazing hard coral reef full of macro life, scorpion and nemo fishes, a variety of gobies and sand wrasses.

The deeper part is the playground for stingrays, white tip reef sharks and a desolate eagle rays hovering in the blue. The background music is sometimes provided by passing dolphins, the special effects completed by desperately, from left to right, swaying Bengal snappers and fusiliers in flight of our friendly predators.

Since many years a shy little turtle with three legs shovels around, feeding on the sponges and giving way for anybody passing by.

Following the reef between 14 and 5 meters, the encounter of several giant moray eels, an eagle or sting ray is most likely, harmless currents might appear and give you an easy ride along the way.

MENDHU INGILI

The best hidden treasure, a stone throw away from the famous Guraidhoo channel and generally ignored by the other diving centers. Dividing the incoming current, enriched by the flow of nutrition, corals flourish and make their way down like a long hooked finger to 20 meters of depth.

They inhabit glass fish, oriental sweetlips, benner and soldier fishes, schools of surgeon and unicorn’s, colonies of gently waiving anemone’s and a sleek scorpion fish can be spotted between the soft corals waiting for a chance to catch his prey.

Small white tip reef sharks cruise the area and a stingray often stays in the shelter of the small overhangs, fusiliers hang in blue clouds snapping bits and pieces of plankton and algae’s.

BANANE REEF

Inside the Atoll close to Guraidhoo a slightly bend reef, hides several astonishing coral formations and cleaning stations bedded in fine coral sand.

From May until November mantas are engulfing the plankton rich water, close to the surface, sleeves extended and mouth wide open, looping gracious around. This is only the appetizer, ones underwater the mantas will approach the divers within a very close range while cleaning on the coral blocks.

A variety of cleaning wrasses are anxious for a welcome brunch and disappear in the gills of the manta to feed upon the leftovers of plankton, once in a while the tickling is to much and the manta sweeps them of in a quick maneuver.

A real treat for any diver, from beginner till experienced, from photographer till videographer.

This dive site has still much more to offer then the ballet of mantas; white sand banks connect the coral formations with legions of garden eels, dutiful filtering the sand and dancing head against the current.

Between the corals, giant moray eels, stone, scorpion and lion fish can be found, accompanied by a colorful variety of reef fish.

The highlight is the rare pink bulb-tentacle anemone coral with quite aggressive clown fishes protecting their treasure home as if live depends on it.

The sandy hills with stony coral colonies linger round about 12m and the cleaning stations maximum 18 meters of depth.

GURAIDHOO CORNER

One of the most famous dive sites in the Maldives has everything to offer what a diver demands.

Pretty flowing inside currents can deliver a variety of pelagic, from white tip, grey reef, thresher and hammerhead sharks, to schools of eagle rays, sailfish, large tunas, barracudas and wavu’s.

During the west monsoon whale sharks stop by to feed upon the plankton and in the dry season from December until April hundreds of dolphins are passing by regularly and can be seen underwater under supervision of our experienced divemasters and instructors.

Diving with the current outside the Atoll gives a chance to see large schools of red snappers, jackfish and oriental sweetlips.

At one particular spot where the bottom of the channel makes a dip, large grey reef and white tip reef sharks hover around for easy breathing.

Overhangs at 20m depth with gorgonian fans, spiky and brittle soft corals lead to the corner where curious surgeon fishes play with the bubbles produced by the divers.

On the shallower reefs, schools of orange spine unicorn fishes, together with parrot fishes feed primarily on the leafy brown algae’s while large schools of fusiliers move in the fast lane in search for something else edible.

MIDDLE POINT

Middle point is just outside the Atoll between Kuda Kandu and Guraidhoo channel.

When the current comes inside the Atoll the visibility is obscured by large amounts of schooling fish.

All packed together, fusiliers, jackfish, groupers, napoleon wrasses, yellow and large red snappers are accompanied by white tip reef sharks .At 30 m, overhangs are covered with smooth sea fans, white acabaria, red and yellow clatharia, naked soft corals and black coral sea whips. At one particular spot a violet and a yellow ghost moray eel hide, to reach suddenly out of the burrow with their head and very long body to grab its prey of small fishes.

Between 8 and 20 m, finger tip cladiella alternate with branching spiky soft corals.

The drift inside the Atoll will take you along rich coral formations, overhangs and canyons.