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Maldives Scuba Tours

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Company description Maldives Scuba Tours are recognised as leading experts on liveaboards and diving holidays to the Maldives. We own and operate two world-class liveaboard dive vessels in the Maldives, the MV Sea Queen and the MV Sea Spirit. In addition to our liveaboards, we offer holidays to a selection of carefully chosen resort islands.
Our reputation has been built on the intimate knowledge gained from fourteen years of operating liveaboard dive boats and working closely with the beautiful island resorts of the Maldives archipelago. Whether you are looking for a Maldives liveaboard or a resort island holiday, whether you are a diver or a non diver, we are well placed to advise you and arrange all aspects of your Maldivian scuba diving holiday.
Here at Maldives Scuba Tours we endeavour to provide a personal service from your initial enquiry and request for literature to the final touchdown after your holiday.
Much of our success is based on our experience, our company has been organising holidays for scuba divers for the past 11 years. We now have a loyal base of customers who have booked with us again and again knowing that we provide a first class service.
Maldives Scuba Tours was established 12 years ago by Rob Bryning and Sam Harwood, authors of ``Dive Sites of the Maldives`` and a number of other guides to the Maldives and the Indian Ocean. Rob and Sam are very experienced divers and are SSI Pro 5000 divers with extensive knowledge of worldwide liveaboards.
The Maldives Scuba Tours team intend to ensure you have a fabulous and trouble free time and they do this by paying a great deal of attention to detail.
From the fringing reef to the ocean slopes, the waters of the Maldives teem with underwater life of all sizes, shapes and colour. Don`t miss the opportunity to experience some of the best scuba diving in the world. The Maldives are recognised as a great place to learn to scuba dive. The turquoise lagoons are incredibly beautiful and form a natural swimming pool, perfect for your diver training.
There is a Dive School on every resort island in the Maldives, each of an international standard teaching the main diver training courses. PADI (Professional Association of Diving Instructors) is the most widely recognised of the training agencies and their courses are available on all our islands.
We look forward to welcoming you to the Maldives!
Location description: 65 million years ago the islands of the Maldives were part of a huge volcanic mountain range. When the volcanoes ceased to be active they submerged sinking at a rate slow enough that coral formations could grow on their rims. This coral growth eventually became the fringing reefs of the atolls. Recent surveys have discovered that the depth of coral on the fringing reef is as much as 2100m (6400ft), a remarkable statistic when you consider a coral massif may grow just 2mm (0.08in) annually.
In the many atolls of the Maldives there is no end to the number of different dive sites with still many more to be discovered. Here are descriptions of some of the sites that give you an idea of the type and quality of the diving. Dive sites:
*Lion’s Head
This is a thrilling dive. You can see schooling grey reef shark as well as some superb soft corals and a mass of colourful reef life. The overhang, shaped like a lion’s head, is the pinnacle of a natural break in the reef which interupts the tidal flow and causes upwellings.
From the point of entry, where most of the sharks are seen, you can follow the reef either east or west depending on the direction of the current. On the reef wall, you find a huge variety of invertebrates and fishes. Look out for the unusual leaf fish and the false stone fish. Hawksbill turtles are common. Resorts used to shark feed here. The site is now a Protected Marine Area as designated by the Maldivian Government.
*Wattaru Kandu
This site is best dived when the tide is flowing into the atoll. The reef is marked by a small sandbank, and the shallow reeftop is clearly visible. You descend on the ocean side of the channel towards the atoll bed at 30m (100ft), keeping the reef on your right.
The best part of the dive is a section of large, broken rocks that form a crevice running up the reef at an angle of 45º. Here you can see stingrays in the sand on the channel floor, white tip reef sharks and a meadow of garden eels.
*Lankanfinolhu Faru (Manta Point)
In the southwest season as astonishing number of manta rays can be seen here when they come in to be cleaned. The top of the reef is at 12m ((40ft); the reef then slopes gently down to 40m (130ft). It is interspersed with massive porites corals that are home to the colonies of cleaner fish.
The manta rays come in from the deep water and hover over the coral heads while the wrasse set to work. To ensure the best sighting you need to be patient and position yourself close to, but not on top of, the coral heads. If you do not crowd the mantas they will perform their cleaning ritual in front of your eyes. It is common for encounters to last half an hour or more, but if you try to touch the mantas you will scare them away. Should you be unlucky enough not to see mantas, this is still a tremendous dive site: huge schools of bullseye fish, oriental sweetlips and napoleon wrasse, plus heaps of turtles and various species of moray eels.
...and many more!

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Maldives Scuba Tours own and operate two world-class liveaboard dive vessels in the Maldives and are recognised as leading experts on liveaboards and diving holidays worldwide

Contact information:

Phone: + 44 1449 780220
Fax: + 44 1449 780221
Street Address:
Walsham Road
Suffolk
United Kingdom
IP14 4JG
Spoken language(s): English
Open: from 09-00 till 17-00
Local time:  Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) London, Edinbourg, Lisboa
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