More of our divesites:
Turtle Point
Lhohi Outside
Bandos North
Potato-Reef
Old Virgin
Old Shark Point
Club Med Reef
Maagiri Caves
Lankan Caves
Ihiga
Madivaru Beyru
Boduhithi Thila
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Blue Water (Indian Ocean)
Rating: Intermediate.
Location: East of Kanifinolhu. 20 minutes by dhoni.
Description: Just blue water.
Type of dive: Drifting in the free ocean.
Depth range: 1-30 meters
Marine life: Big and beautiful plankton in undisturbed
water sometimes with big pelagic fish.
Instructors’ comment: Not a coral as far as you can
see. Knowing that the sea bottom is nearly 1000 metres down, it is a very
different dive. Place for surprises.
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Dive Sites - Maldive
Victory
Rating: Advanced.
Location: South-west of Hulule Airport. 60 minutes
by dhoni.
Description: A 110 meters cargo ship which sank
in 1981.
Type of dive: Wreck dive, descent and ascent on
a rope.
Depth range: 16-30 meters.
Marine life: Located in a channel often flushed in strong
current, the wreck has been a locale for plenty of fish and delicate coral
life. Big schools of jacks and trevally frequently visit the wreck.
Instructors’ comment: The ship was soon stripped of
its valuables but today has a higher value as a dive site. Sank on a Friday
the 13th, it is bad luck, our luck.
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Dive Sites - Lion’s
Head
Rating: Intermediate.
Location: North side of Vadhoo channel, 80 minutes
by dhoni.
Description: A fast falling reef side from 2-500 meters,
with a prominent rock protruding at 10 meters. When shark feeding was allowed
this was THE place, but even to date it is a highlight with beautiful caves
and overhangs in shallow water.
Type of dive: Drift dive along a reef-side.
Depth range: 2-30 meters.
Marine life: Sharks, eagle rays, big snappers,
sting rays.
Instructors’ comment: A long nearly never ending drift
dive, sometimes pretty fast.
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Dive Sites
- Banana Reef
Rating: Intermediate.
Location: South west of Furana, 45 minutes by
dhoni.
Description: Named after its shape, has big spectacular
rocks, caves, deep gutters and overhangs.
Type of dive: Thila, descent and ascent along
a reef slope.
Depth range: 2-30 meters.
Marine life: An amazing scenery around the rocks with
shark, barracuda, trevally, and black snapper. Schooling banner fish, big
moray eels, groupers, cods are also common. On the top are some big table
corals.
Instructors’ comment: The reef formation makes this
place an underwater paradise for both fish and divers.
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Dive Sites
- Furana North
Rating: Intermediate.
Location: North of Furana, 40 minutes by dhoni.
Description: A big reef, top at 8 meters depth.
Type of dive: Thila, descent and ascent in free
water.
Depth range: 8-25 meters.
Marine life: An interesting reef with surprises like
nurse sharks, mantas, eagle rays and even whale sharks. Beautiful coral rocks
accommodate honeycomb moray eels, lion fish, schools of snappers and sweet
lips.
Instructors’ comment: Because of its location at the
outer reef edge, do not forget to keep an eye out on the blue waters looking
for pelagics.
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Dive Sites -
Himmafushi Outside
Rating: Intermediate.
Location: East of Himmafushi, 25 minutes by dhoni.
Description: Outside reef with the top at 8 meters depth
sloping down to 45 metres. At the north end a huge flat area between 15-20
meters. Coral rocks and overhangs.
Type of dive: Drift-dive.
Depth range: 8-30 meters.
Marine life: Beautiful hard and soft corals, schooling
pelagic fish at the north corner to Himmafushi Kandu. Under rocks and overhangs
you can see honeycomb morays, stone fish, groupers, shrimps and fan corals.
Turtles are frequent visitors.
Instructors’ comment: When a north drift takes us up
to the corner, very often we see sharks and rays.
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Dive Sites
- Devil’s Reef
Rating: Intermediate.
Location: Northeast of Himmafushi, 25 minutes
by dhoni.
Description: Opposite from H.P. reef is another fantastic
reef with drop-offs and big rocks. The reef is long and starts at one meter
depth to drop fast to 40-45 meters
Type of dive: Drift dive along a reef wall.
Depth range: 1-30 meters.
Marine life: The really big rocks are covered with blue
soft coral. Schooling snappers, eagle rays, sharks, morays are normal visitors
here. At the reef-top you will find a beautiful coral garden.
Instructors’ comment: The place represents the opposite
to its name, very pleasant, especially when a comfortable current carries
you along the reef.
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H.P. Reef
Rating: Advanced.
Location: South of Girifushi, 20 minutes by dhoni.
Description: H.P. is another exceptional dive site with
a spectacular reef formation. Overhangs, caves, slopes, drop-offs, everything
is there. The reef-top starts at 10 meters and falls down to 35-40 meters,
and it is less than100 meters across.
Type of dive: Drift-dive in sometimes strong current
with descent and ascent in free water.
Depth range: 10-30 meters.
Marine life: Large schools of big eye and blue fin trevally,
rainbow runner, barracuda, and dog tooth tuna make this reef a playground
for pelagics. Sharks and eagle rays join in the action. Yellow fin and blue
fusilier concentrate here in big schools. Together with octopus there is a
broad variety of reef fish especially scorpion on top of the ‘thila’. Full
of nice soft corals.
Instructors’ comment: We always plan dives here at slack
tide.
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Dive Courses
It is much more fun to gain more experience and to continue your education when the diving circumstances are so good as here in Maldives. Our international 5-star IDC centre has the highest ranking within PADI and PADI stands for the biggest recreational diving-organisation in the world. Our very experienced, multilingual instructors can teach you in …………………… A spacious classroom AV equipment is available. We have a wide range of courses to choose from. -Advanced open water plus -Deep dive speciality -Navigation speciality -Night dive speciality -Underwater photographer speciality -Underwater naturalist speciality -Drift dive speciality -Boat dive speciality -Multilevel dive speciality -Boat dive speciality -Search and recovery speciality -Rescue diver. -Divemaster. -Medic First Aid. On the weekly schedule we start one Shark-Speciality, one Open-Water, one Advanced-Open-Water and one Peak-Performance-Buoyancy course both in English and German.
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Dive Courses
You want the fastest way to discover the fascinating underwater world so join us in an introduction-dive. You will find it both easy and fun when you during one afternoon get basic information about SCUBA-diving. Then under close supervision of our instructors you do your first dive in our lagoon. After your first try you would certainly want to learn some more and that is the beginning of a new hobby of yours and a good opportunity to make new friends. You want to go for the real thing. The fun and adventure starts in the very beginning of your OPEN-WATER-DIVER-course. Our experienced instructors will guide you through five academic lessons and five confined water lessons before you do the four final open water dives at Coralgarden and other popular divesites. Upon successful completion of this course, you will be rewarded with a world-wide-recognised certificate from PADI. Maybe you want to do the theory and confined water part at home and finish with the open water part here with us, a referral course.
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Dive School
There you also find fashion products and dive equipment fore sale. So come and join us. Our diving organisation, EURODIVERS, has the longest experience of SCUBA-diving from resorts in Maldives. We will show you the best divesites in North Male’ atoll. It is not only while diving we are enjoying the fun life in Maldives, let us go and play volleyball, have a drink at the beach, join us at Divers-Evening watching our video, slide-show, or just see you later in the bar.
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Dive School
The friendly, experienced and well-trained boat crew carries your equipment to and from the boat and gladly helps in every other way they can. Every day there is one boat dive excursion in the morning and in the afternoon. In addition to that that there are two full day excursions, two boat night dive and one early morning dive planned per week or more on request. We arrange individual diving excursions by speedboat or dhoni. You can also dive in our lagoon. You normally start your diving holiday with an orientation dive free of charge in it. It is only on new years day we let the diving equipment dry. Our dive staff is trained in Medic First Aid and CPR. In emergencies there is a Medical Centre with a Recompressor-chamber located on another island just a few minutes away. The dive-centre office/shop is open every day during the whole year between 07.00 PM to 08.00 PM. The dive staff will help you in anyway they can with planning your diving-holiday, diving-courses or if you have any questions about the under-water world.
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Dive School
Well and modern equipped with two electric BAUER-compressors, total capacity of 700 l/min. 100 aluminium tanks with DIN/INT valves, 30 regulators (SCUBAPRO and SHERWOOD) with octopus and pressure-gauge, 40 jackets (SHERWOOD and SUB-GEAR), 20 ADRENALIN wet-suits, 20 underwater-lamps, 38 ALADIN diving-computers and masks, fins and snorkels in sufficient numbers. You can keep your own equipment in our spacious building out on the jetty where the course-, lagoon-dives and diving-excursions launches from, you do not have to carry it back and forward to your room. There is also fresh water in order to rinse your equipment and areas to dry it plus a well-equipped workshop for basic maintenance and service. We have at our disposal a number of vessels, fast going fibre-glass and traditional wooden dhonis, all equipped with life vests, first aid equipment, DAN-oxygen kits, communication-radios, comfortable ladders, spare-equipment and surface-balloons.
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Scuba Diving
A few are though poisonous and are equipped with some sharp spines or “scalpel” looking things, but as long as divers stick to the rule “do not touch” the risk of injury is minimal. Maldives is sometimes called: “The country where even the sharks are friendly”. Thanks to the location of Kani, you have close access to all kinds of reef, long out drawn outside reef, channels, inside reef and thilas, do not forget that you also are close to the big open ocean. With that comes a broad variation of aquatic animals, both vertebrates and invertebrates.
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Scuba Diving
Just a few dive locations in the world can be compered with the fantastic diving environment in Maldives. It is a whole year diving season. The water temperature stays more or less constant during the whole year, there are not any bigger variations from 27-30 degrease Celsius, even not down to a depth of 30 meters As a group of islands in the middle of an ocean, Maldives is off course exposed by currents. They play a big part of the responsibility to the reefs enormous fauna and with a proper dive planning they also give us divers a lot of help to make many comfortable and unforgettable dives. With more than 1000 fish species in Maldives it is possible to do a lot of dives and still see new species every time. Some of them have a bad reputation to be aggressive, poisonous and dangerous but it is most of the time only an unjust accusation.
Marine Life
Wales and dolphins are mammals living in the ocean. Often we see them from the boat to and from our dive sites. Sometimes we see them during diving, and to do so is most divers highest dream. DIVING RULES All diving organisations and resorts have rules. We have them because we respect the aquatic life, for your safety and in order to make your and next generation diver’s holiday here on Kanifinolhu unforgettable.
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Marine Life
It feeds on sponges, algae and small invertebrates. While night diving you often see parrot fish asleep between rocks of coral, some of them in a sleeping bag made of mucus. It protects them from predators. Butterfly fish are among the most brilliantly coloured reef dwellers. As juvenile they look completely different in order to avoid constantly being attacked by mature fish that chases trespassers out from their territory. The trigger fish has a small but very powerful mouth using it to break coral and shell in order to reach and to eat smaller invertebrates. They sleep during the night, locked between coral rocks with their trigger shaped dorsal and pelvic fins. Most large groupers stay hidden during the day. Many groupers change sex during its life; the younger, smaller ones are female, the larger, older ones male. For a few years now it has not been allowed to catch turtles in Maldives. So today during a dive outside Kani to have seen up to ten turtles is not unusual.
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Marine Life
In the group cartilage fish you find sharks and rays. Their skeleton does not include bone tissue. You can see this fascinating fish both close to the reef and out in the free water. Moray-eels are nocturnal hunters. During the day you normally see them resting under rocks or in caves. Inflatable or puffer fish swallow water in order to be bigger and scare other fish away when they feel threatened. All scorpion fish lives among the corals were they eat smaller fish. The spines in their first dorsal fin is poisonous, they use it for defense. An anemone fish spend his whole life at the same sea anemone. They snap zooplankton up in the open water, withdrawing into the tentacle “forest” of the anemone when they feel threatened or at night to sleep. The black-foot clown fish exists only in Maldives. The box fish is a funny looking creatcher, it has got its shape from the hard scales which forms it to a box.
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