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Chartlet of Maldives courtesy of worldatlas.com

This was my last dive for this tour in Maldives as I'm flying to Abu Dhabi to take over as Master on Indian Empress so I need some surf...

This morning we saw there was a strong ingoing tide on Kudakalhi Channel so we decided to do a drift dive from the corner into the atoll as...

My diving days are soon over for awhile as I'm due to return back to Indian Empress in a few days. This morning decided to revisit the ...

For this mornings dive we chose to go to an unnamed reef West of the Aarah Island. There are 2 reefs next to each other and in between there...

This morning we headed North for Nassimo Thila that was awarded four stars by Tim Godfrey back in the day when he wrote the book and is laud...

Looking at divesites Tim Godfrey have mapped out in his good book I settled to go to the Kuda Haa "thila" as it was the only one w...

BA chart 3323

My deckhand Pardeep had not been here and we decided to revisit this site. This time though we swam South instead of inside the atoll so we ...

BA chart 3323

As we were running out of dive sites close by we decided to give Hulhule a go even-though Tim Godfrey had awarded the site only one star in ...

Surfers Paradise

As my other deckhand had not experienced the wreck we decided to have another go at it and so we went down south of the airport. This time t...

As the previous day we had missed the caves we decided to make another attempt, this time we would start on the Eastern tip of the reef and ...

Maldivian "gas carrier" at Hulhumale'

This time we decided to go to the right spot and so we went with map and all. Went into the water about in the middle of the north side of t...

Here we actually thought we were going to the Maagiri caves but eventually came short of one reef as we did not have our guide book with us...

Went to the Feydhoo Finolhu where there is according to the Tim Godfrey "Dive Maldives" guide the Black Coral reef. Black coral is...

Kalizma at anchor

Center propeller before

Went in the NE corner and ventured East with the strong current in the beginning. The visibility was quite good but as the current became le...

As my other deckhand hadn't yet seen Banana reef we went here again. Good dive and lots to see. BA chart 3323, inset

We ventured out of the atoll and went for the Club Med Corner, actually the NE end of the Hulhumale' & Hulhule airport Island & ...