Went to the Feydhoo Finolhu where there is according to the Tim Godfrey "Dive Maldives" guide the Black Coral reef. Black coral is semi precious and used for jewellery. Weather was excellent and we went to the Island and discovered there is a resort nowadays so we plonked in the drink a bit west of their entrance and swam west. The reef is a vertical wall, not so much coral there but the wall looks more "rocky" like on the outside of an atoll. Saw nothing spectacular except the normal pelagics and we surfaced at the Western end where there is a wreck in the middle on the reef.
BA chart 3323, inset
Flora
Clarks anemonefish
Yellow boxfish
Clam
Orange-striped triggerfish
Black-saddle coralgrouper
Moray eel
Lionfish
Circular batfish
Duskyfin rock cod
Clown triggerfish
Kashmir snapper
Soldierfish (?)
Oriental sweetlips
Damselfish
Maldives anemonefish
Titan triggerfish
The wreck on the reef
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