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Divesite: Cocoa Corner
Cocoa Corner is one of our closest dive spots near the outside reef. Today we were with 8 experienced divers, divided into 2 groups, each having one guide. Everybody was ready for the adventure. The current check showed small and in-going current, good for sharks and normally not on the corner itself but a little bit further in the channel. We jumped in the blue water and I went slowly down to 15 meter, checking if everybody was descending fine. After two minutes, the reef and its corner became visible. We continued our descent to 30 meters. Arriving at the corner we passed huge groups of fusilier fish and surgeon fish. At 30, tunas came looking at us, followed by whitetip sharks and one minute further in the channel, grey sharks. The groups of grey reef shark were big and contained babies as well as full grown adults (up to 2 meter and really looking fat). We had a few minutes to look at this gracefull animals, continuously living in the current. Also the huge tunas and whitetip sharks stayed with us at the bottom of the channel entrance. Afterwards the rest of the dive was a terrific passage through overhangs around 15 meter, full of fish and coral.
Just one word for this 50 minutes dive to 30 meters. Amazing. Real adventure.
Even more complete if I tell You later the same day in front of our island, we were delighted with the visit of a Humpback WHALE mother and her baby, seeking protection in the atoll the first days of the baby it's life. We could even see the mother pushing up her baby to learn it to breathe...


Divesite: Cocoa Corner
Cocoa corner is our closest dive spot at the outside reef. Easy current for advanced divers as well as beginners. Today we are a group of 5 beginners and 7 experienced divers. I take with me the 5 ones and we are ready for another adventure. On our way down I make sure that everybody is O.K At 8 mtrs we reach the top of the reef and with the slope at our right shoulder are heading direction the entrance of the channel. Neutral buoyancy is a must for everybody to avoid damaging the fragile new life of the coral. There is just enough current to drift without any effort. In front of us a school of yellow snapper with their beautiful neon blue stripes and in the far ? a long line of fusilier. Ooops ! Under me, well hidden between two coral blocks, a friendly turtle. Almost missed it ! Right under the surface small needle fish are hunting and a bunch of nervous dark purple surgeon fish are speeding from one coral to the other into frenzy feeding. An other turtle is heading for the surface in need of some air. Air check for us too, 80 bars left for my buddy and the current is getting stronger. A sign that we are close from the entrance of the channel. At about 20mtrs depth, we can see a gracious eagle ray and I know that soon, the sharks will be here too. Voila ! Here they are, 3 of them, white tips. They are swimming motionless next to each other, minding their own business but I can still hear my buddy breathing increasing. I give him the O.K. sign: every think under control.We stop for a while, holding on to a dead piece of coral, and watch them. Always fascinating to observe how they swim against current, not one jerky movement, everything is smooth and owerful in the same time. We let ourselves drift behind them and entry the channel. 50 bars left, it’s time for our safety stop. Neutral buoyant at 5mtrs with my safety boy floating at the surface to mark our position. After 3 min. we are back at the surface and can hardly believe how fast the hour went by. This encounter with the white tips where really a high light for everybody.


Divesite: Maafushi Tila
It had been raining the whole night with some thunder but in the morning, as usual, the sun was shining. It is the ideal day to go for a dive at Maafushi Tila, our Maledivien “Blue Hole”. The boat trip takes about 25 minutes and we are enjoying this moment on the “sundeck” We have some company : flying fish cruising along and on the horizon, two rare sailing dhonies. We are getting ourselves ready and my colleague is already in the water, checking the direction and strength of the current. – a small current and 30 mtrs visibility, perfect! My group is the second to hit the water and we begin our dive in good condition. On the way, lots of green coral, voluminous gorgonias with a hawk fish, well hidden in one of them. We can admire the very blue colour of the rare palette surgeonfish and a big school of yellow stripe snapper avoid us in a few precise fin strokes. Below us a hawksbill turtle eating some delicious sponge. It’s difficult to get their attention when they are busy looking for the best piece or chewing on it, they do it with such great concentration, it almost look like a religious ritual !! I can see the first group of divers entering the cave, I slow down to let them go through our “Blue Hole” first. After a few minutes we also reach the opening at 25 meters and it is the entrance of a big cathedral that we have in front of us. Some pale light is to be seen inside, coming from a hole in the ceiling. A school of giant travelley are guarding the sanctuary, I turn my light on and begin to swim along them, into the cave. The walls are covered with colourful sponges and very delicate ascidians, some formations look like well composed bouquets. In the dark, on the sandy bottom, an eagle ray is observing the group, making sure we don’t disturb the tranquillity of her shelter. In a small crack, a group of little cleaning shrimps wait next to kaleidoscopic nudibranches. Shallower, a beautiful black coral tree with, red, orange and black feather stars attached around the fine branches. In a corner, the eyes of two scorpion fish are gleaming in the dark. A troop of soldier fish are passing by and seem very attracted by the beam of my torch, one almost touches my mask. Two big sweetlips snapper are surprised by our presence and leave in big hurry. First sign for 50 bars. We are following the sun light through the hole and make our safety stop in the full light.


Divesite: Kuda Hura
Kuda Hurra is what we call a cleaning station, a nice coral block right next to the outside reef. The summer season is the ideal time to observe mantas because of it´s “yummi” planctonic life and it´s one of our place where mantas get cleaned up from parasites. Our coral block is at a depth of 12 metres, easy to reach but still, to avoid scaring the mantas we jump in the water 50 metres before. On our way we meet two honeycomb moreys, a black lion fish standing in front of an opening, what is he expecting there ? And a nervous stingray flying down the slope towards the deep down. We are not the only onces heading to the same point, also a big Napoleon wrass is leading us to the “cleaning station “. And ….. nothing, no mantas ?! We can make out a lot of cleaner fish around the top waiting for the next client to come. So be patient, wait and watch. After a few minutes, surprise, a big shadow out of the blue and the next manta arrives. The wingspan of this giant is about 3,5 to 4 metres and with slow movement he is flying towards us. We stay very still and to our great pleasure, the magnificent creature doesn´t mind our presence. He glides on top of the coral block just a vew metres away from us and stays without any movement ready for a cosmetic treatment. The cleaning wrass are already their job and after very exciting time, our majestic manta is ready to move on, return back to the big blue again. A great experience in the marine wildlife scenery around our Island Resorts Villi Varu and Biyadoo.


Divingsite: Biyadoo housereef / Passage No. 1
It´s still early in the morning, right before sunrise. Most of the hotel guests are still asleep and it is just me my divers group, ready for a wet early morning start at our housereef. Our entry point is passage number 1, just 5 minutes walking distance from the diving centre. At 6.05 AM we are descending finning to the right along the reef edge. A slight current is against us but knowing it is worth it we keep going. A mystic scenery it´s neither night nor day, it´s hunting time for the predatory ! The place to be right is where the current separate, this is the place where everything is happening. Like a dark cloud, a big school of fusiliers are chasing after all they can get. Right below the surface, another big school of silvery sardine being hunted by some big rainbow coloured jackfish. Just below us we can observe big teeth tuna fish cruising around. Today it seems those pelagic fish are trying their luck on our housereef. To eat or to be eaten, this is the Law of the marine wildlife ! Suddenly my buddy is pinching my arm and pointing ahead. Yeah ! Our black tip reefsharks are also appearing. Now it´s getting exiciting. The sun is rising, the light under water gets brighter and we can make out some big tuna appearing from the deep blue. Suddenly their body colour is changing and black stripes can me made out on the whole body, a typical sign of great excitement. With a big bang the attack starts. You can hear it, you can feel it ! Tunas, jacks and the sharks are shooting like arrows through the water hunting for food. For us it´s like firework of blue, yellow and green colours, while the water around us is boiling. With an exciting smile in their eyes my divebuddy´s showing signs of “phantastic, excellent, great !