Sachika

Main Atolls: North Male – South Male – Vaavu – Meemu – Thaa – Laamu

Day 1: Check-in.

Day 2-7: Dive Sites Highlights

Male South 

• Kandooma Thila: Marine protected the area, full of marine life as Eagle Ray, Grey Reef Shark, White Tip Shark, Tuna. This underwater mountain is well known to be a cleaning station for Grey Reef Shark. Divers have the possibility to watch sharks get clean and this is a rare behavior.

Vaavu:

• Myaru Kandu-Devana Kandu: These two are the most famous channel dives in this atoll, channel, in general, are famous for strong incoming current and clear water. But these two have the most abundant number of sharks, mostly White Tip and Grey Reef. Tunas and Jack Fish complete the show.
• Fotteyo Kandu: This shallow channel is famous for the outside wall, full of yellow soft coral pending from many different caves.
• Alimatha Jetty: This night dive is world-famous for the presence of Nurse Sharks, sometimes they come in groups of more than 10 individuals. Some study says the population counts more than 80 sharks.

Meemu:

• VanurahVali Kandu: This channel has the peculiarity to have a double edge that gives the chance to divers to cross the full channel and push all the sharks in one corner and this creates the shark sandwich that is a special event to see all of them together.
• Kureli Manta Point: This is the only manta point of the week. So must be done. Sandy area with big blocks that give divers the feeling of walking in a moon kind landscape.

Thaa:

• Olughiri Kandu: A big channel but very shallow, so easy to explore entirely. For the luckiest divers, here is possible to meet a resident oceanic grouper.
• Dyamigili Corner: A long reef in the south part of the atoll that in the early morning rather than the magnificent reef, many turtles and white tip shark, sometimes give the possibility of hammerhead sharks.
• Kalufalha Island: Here, we don’t dive but in the evening, we put a big light at the stern of the boat to attract plankton, the favorite food for the Whale Shark.

Laamu:

• Fushi Kandu Maabahidoo Kandu: These two are the channel dives around the same island, north and south side, Maabahidoo. Both very shallow and both full of marine life that will leave guests speechless. Eagle Rays in formation, silvertip sharks, dogtooth tuna, jackfish in the school, and red snappers. The perfect end for a perfect trip.

Day 8: Check out.

This is the route during which the boat moves to the deep South. It’s a unique cruise that we do only two weeks a year in high season. This cruise is beautiful because the crossed atolls are still very wild. This cruise is dedicated to the typical Maldivian’s CHANNELS DIVES. Needs to take an additional domestic flight.

Please note that there is a possibility to do the check-out on the 6th night (Friday 5^th February) in case of preference. Please enquire about the price when booking.

Domestic flight from Laamu (KDO) to Male (MLE) are available with 2 possibilities:

• Q2 107 KDO MLE 2050 2140 (Friday, 6 nights cruise)
• Q2 273 KDO MLE 1530 1620 (with check-out from the boat to the KDO airport in the late morning of Saturday, 7 nights cruise)

Day 1: Usually, the schedule for the first day is connected with guests’ domestic flight landing time. Normal check-in is in the afternoon/late afternoon. Welcome onboard meeting and dinner.

Day 2

• 06:30 Dive 1 Vilingili Giri
• 08:30-10:30 Breakfast
• 11:00 Dive 2 Kooddoo Kandu
• 13:00 Lunch
• 15:00 Dive 3 Vilingili Kandu
• 18:00 Fishing from the boat
• 19:00 Dinner

Day 3

• 6:30 Dive 1 Kondei Kandu
• 08:30-10:30 Breakfast
• 11:00 Dive 2 Nilandhoo Kandu
• 13:30 Lunch
• 15:00 Dive 3 Marea Kandu
• 19:00 Dinner BBQ
• Around 2 am, the boat will start cruising to Fommulah in the open ocean.

Day 4

• 06:30 Dive 1 Fommulah
• 08:30-10:30 Breakfast
• 11:00 Dive 2 Fommulah
• 13:00 Pranzo
• 15:00 Dive 3 Fommulah
• 19:00 Dinner

Day 5

• 06:30 Dive 1 Genemanafushi Beyru
• 08:00-10:30 Breakfast
• 11:00 Dive 2 Gemanafushi Beyru
• 13:00 Lunch
• 15:00 Dive 3 Kureddhoo Kandu
• 19:30 Dinner

Day 6

• 7:00 Dive 1 Nilandhoo Kandu
• 08:30-10:30 Breakfast
• 12:00 Dive 2 Kooddoo Kandu
• 14:00 Lunch
• 16:00 Dive 3 Fish Tank
• 19:30 Maldivian dinner

Day 7: Usually, the last day’s schedule is connected with the guest’s departure time. We will dive 24 hours before your flight will take off.

Rather than dive, we will bring you to visit a local fisherman island, different sandbanks, and deserted islands. All connect to dive timing and weather conditions.

Day 8: Breakfast. Check-out in the morning.

In the Maldives, all the dives sites that have “Kandu” in the name are channel dives. That means clear water, dive on the ocean edge to meet a big amount of grey reef sharks, tuna, jackfish, and sometimes dolphins and sailfish. In the deep south, some of them host a big amount of green turtles (Kooddo Kandu, Vilingili Kandu particularly); some of them have great coral gardens (such as Kureddoo Kandu, Kondei Kandu). Outside of the island of Genemanafushi, we have a good chance to meet a large group of Hammerheads Sharks, diving in the blue, drifting long an oceanic reef.

Southern than Huvadhoo, if the ocean condition is good, we can go to the ultimate Maldivian dive destination, Fommulah. This atoll is made by only one island in the middle of the Indian ocean: here, thanks to the oceanic current, we have great chances to meet tiger sharks and thresher sharks. We can spend here just one full day and make 3 dives, because there isn’t a place for night anchorage: not so uncommon to meet here oceanic mantas or whale sharks.

More than one night, we will try to attract whale sharks behind the boat with a powerful light.

Thanks to the many desert islands, we will do the barbecue on the beach in a very beautiful location, need just to pic-up an island!

This cruise is dedicated to expert divers, profiles are generally deep and with some decompression. The boat moves there for the two months of high season to join the clear water and the pelagic life of the typical Maldivian’s CHANNELS DIVES. Needs to take an additional national flight.

Internal flights Male (MLE) – Huvadhoo (airport to be defined) on arrival day and Huvadhoo (airport to be defined) – Male (MLE) on departure day required  –  425 USD per person return ticket.

Day 1: Usually, the schedule for the first day is connected with guests’ domestic flight landing time. Normal check-in is in the afternoon/late afternoon. Welcome onboard meeting and dinner.

Day 2

• 06:30 Dive 1 Vilingili Giri
• 08:30-10:30 Breakfast
• 11:00 Dive 2 Kooddoo Kandu
• 13:00 Lunch
• 15:00 Dive 3 Vilingili Kandu
• 18:00 Fishing from the boat
• 19:00 Dinner

Day 3

• 6:30 Dive 1 Kondei Kandu
• 08:30-10:30 Breakfast
• 11:00 Dive 2 Nilandhoo Kandu
• 13:30 Lunch
• 15:00 Dive 3 Marea Kandu
• 19:00 Dinner BBQ
• Around 2 am, the boat will start cruising to Fommulah in the open ocean.

Day 4

• 06:30 Dive 1 Fommulah
• 08:30-10:30 Breakfast
• 11:00 Dive 2 Fommulah
• 13:00 Pranzo
• 15:00 Dive 3 Fommulah
• 19:00 Dinner

Day 5

• 06:30 Dive 1 Genemanafushi Beyru
• 08:00-10:30 Breakfast
• 11:00 Dive 2 Gemanafushi Beyru
• 13:00 Lunch
• 15:00 Dive 3 Kureddhoo Kandu
• 19:30 Dinner

Day 6

• 7:00 Dive 1 Nilandhoo Kandu
• 08:30-10:30 Breakfast
• 12:00 Dive 2 Kooddoo Kandu
• 14:00 Lunch
• 16:00 Dive 3 Fish Tank
• 19:30 Maldivian dinner

Day 7: Usually, the last day’s schedule is connected with the guest’s departure time. We will dive 24 hours before your flight will take off.

Rather than dive, we will bring you to visit a local fisherman island, different sandbanks, and deserted islands. All connect to dive timing and weather conditions.

Day 8: Breakfast. Check-out in the morning.

In the Maldives, all the dives sites that have “Kandu” in the name are channel dives. That means clear water, dive on the ocean edge to meet a big amount of grey reef sharks, tuna, jackfish, and sometimes dolphins and sailfish. In the deep south, some of them host a big amount of green turtles (Kooddo Kandu, Vilingili Kandu particularly); some of them have great coral gardens (such as Kureddoo Kandu, Kondei Kandu). Outside of the island of Genemanafushi, we have a good chance to meet a large group of Hammerheads Sharks, diving in the blue, drifting long an oceanic reef.

Southern than Huvadhoo, if the ocean condition is good, we can go to the ultimate Maldivian dive destination, Fommulah. This atoll is made by only one island in the middle of the Indian ocean: here, thanks to the oceanic current, we have great chances to meet tiger sharks and thresher sharks. We can spend here just one full day and make 3 dives, because there isn’t a place for night anchorage: not so uncommon to meet here oceanic mantas or whale sharks.

More than one night, we will try to attract whale sharks behind the boat with a powerful light.

Thanks to the many desert islands, we will do the barbecue on the beach in a very beautiful location, need just to pic-up an island!

This cruise is dedicated to expert divers, profiles are generally deep and with some decompression. The boat moves there for the two months of high season to join the clear water and the pelagic life of the typical Maldivian’s CHANNELS DIVES. Needs to take an additional national flight.

Internal flights Male (MLE) – Huvadhoo (airport to be defined) on arrival day and Huvadhoo (airport to be defined) – Male (MLE) on departure day required  –  425 USD per person return ticket.

An exciting mix between submerged landscapes and breathtaking views.

At the center of this long archipelago are situated, from east to west, three of the most famous atolls of Maldives: North Male, South Male, and Ari.

The cruise sets out to the south, letting new divers get used to the comfortable temperatures of these waters with the exploration of a trawler which sank three decades ago, turned into a house for the typical microfauna of these waters: needlefish and scorpionfish (Pterois volitans) inhabiting the outside decks and clefts full of glassfish.

The fishermen Island of Gurahidoo is surrounded by dive sites that can give rivers of currents in the pass, in Dhivehi called ”Kandu“, which bring large predators like the typical white tip reef sharks and grey reef sharks. Is not unusual to encounter large napoleons and green turtles (Chelonia midas) between the protrusions of Kandooma Thila.

The crossing to the west of South Ari atoll is often accompanied by large groups of dolphins.

These waters are characterized by Rowley shoals dives, which in Dhivehi are called “Thila”. They are particular because of the abundance of fish and coral gardens both hard and soft. In fact, Dhangheti area is famous for its spectacular dive sites such as 5 Rocks with its blue sea fans and Kuda Thila Raa with its schools of squirrelfish and yellow striped blue snappers, soft corals, and long black coral whips.

Before sailing back to the central areas is a must trying to see, in true “safari” style, the great lord of this area, the whale shark.

In the western part of the atoll, when dry winds blow from the northeast, there are several points where is easy to meet the great manta rays that come close to the reef to enjoy the many cleaning station rich of plankton.

Marine Life: Whale sharks, manta rays, scorpionfish, glassfish, reef sharks, napoloan wrass, green turtles, beautiful corals, dolphins,