April-10-2022
Water temperature: 28 degrees Celsius, 84 degrees Fahrenheit
Visibility: 10-20 meters, 30- 60 feet
CREW:
Captain: Raof
Assistant captain: Hassan
Cruise Director: Shaker
Dive guide: Zayad/Amir
1st Engineer: Madhu
Deck Hand: Parvez, Mostafa
Chef: Issuru
Assistant chef: qassun
Stewards: Sultan, Mehdi
Captain Doni: Zeyad
Dhoni compressor operator: Alamin
Dhoni deck hand: sayedon
GUESTS
Peter, Chi Man Lau, Edmund, Jim, Don, John, Don Jo, Alvin, Lisa, Jim, Chris, Lois, Phillip, Michelle, Kristopher & Heather.
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Sunday 10th of April,
We welcome on board 20 guests from the United States of America, Russia, Spain and Poland After the welcome drinks they were introduced to the boat and dive briefing, and then our first day ended with a nice dinner on board.
South Male
Monday 11th of April, Dives:
1st kudha girri wreck
2nd Myaro Kandu
3rd Alimatah house reef
Started our trip with a wreck diving, to follow with a dive on a Thila then a channel dive seeing a very colorful corals, a lot of reef fishes like golden fish, anemonefish, banner fish, surgeonfish, butterflyfish nudibranchs and turtles, white tip sharks trevally, barracuda and moray eels.Then Myaro Kandu, where we spotted group of grey reef sharks, whitetip sharks and a group of five eagle rays, barracuda and some of reef fish like blue trigger fish, school of needle fish, floutmouth fish, banner fish and more, to follow this with Alimatah House reef spotting four blacktip sharks, whitetip sharks, two eagle rays, A stingray and about twenty nurse-sharks cheering up around us.
Tuesday 12th of April, Dives:
1st Fottayo kandu
2nd Fushi Kandu
3rd Golden wall
Starting our diving day at 6.30 with three channel dives, first dive where we spotted a hammerhead shark five moray eels, bigeye fish, blue triggerfish, floutmouth-fish, and wrasse fish, to follow this dive with two channel dives where we saw five grey reef sharks, two turtles, about ten moray eels, school of jackfish, trevally, barracuda drifting along the golden wall amazed the divers how rich was the wall with soft and hard corals plus lots of marine life types and species.
Vaavu Atoll
Wednesday 13th of April, Dives:
1st Gahoura Kandu
2nd Madu Faru Kandu
3rd Mulaku Kandu
We did three channel dives along the north-east of Memu atoll, where we have seen beautiful reef rich with marine life, we saw along the day four turtles, a school of barracuda, jackfish, trevally, Fuselier, about twenty whitetip sharks, ten moray eels, and about ten grey reef sharks, as well we spotted some shrimps, nudibranchs, and ended our last dive with a group of eight to nine dolphins.
South Ari Atoll
Thursday 14th of April Dives:
1st Seventh heaven
2nd Sun Island outer reef
3rd Machachafushi Wreck
4th Dighourah Arches (night dive)
We started our day at 6.30 am doing three day dives plus one night dive, during the day dives we counted about fifteen moray eels, four turtles, six mobula ray (devil ray), we want for a whale shark search we weren’t lucky to see them this time, however during the second dive the ocean decided to compensate with a group of dolphins about seven to eight of them. While wreck diving we saw about five to six different nudibranch, during the night dive we saw an octopus, an eagle ray, a cuttlefish, a turtle and about four nudibranch.
Friday 15th of April, Dives:
1st Camel Rock
2nd Mahibadhoo Rock
3rd Fish Head
We did three dives on three different Thillas, to see different species of soft and hard corals, about twenty grey reef shark, fifteen whitetip shark, we saw three turtles two of them in one dive. a school of jackfish, bigeye fish, fusiliers, barracuda.
Saturday 16th of April, Dives:
1st Fish head
2nd BattalaMagaa Kanthila
3rd Maya Thila
4th Maya Thila (night dive)
We did three day dives plus one night dive, on three different thillas, spotting a school of trevally, blue triggerfish, bigeye fish, jackfish, barracuda, during the third dive we saw seven octopus, six of them were next to each other, during the night dive we saw three marble rays playing around, four turtles, six nudibranch, two mantis shrimps, two octopus and a cuttlefish.
Sunday 17th of April, Dives:
1st Danghai Kandu
2nd Danghai cleaning station manta point
3rd kuromathi Kandu
We did three channel dives, we spotted about fifteen grey reef sharks, about ten whitetip sharks, 2 schools of barracuda, a school blue triggerfish, the second dive was on the manta point where we spotted six big manta rays.
Monday 18th of April, Dives:
1st Rashdoo Madivaru
2nd Rashdoo Manta point
3rd Kuromathai Kandu
We did three channel dives, during our three dives we saw a lot of reef fishes, like blue triggerfish, titan triggerfish, clown triggerfish, clown fish, angelfish, bannerfish and Indian banner fish. During the first dive we saw three moray eels, five eagle rays, six grey reef shark, four whitetip sharks and a turtle we saw this lovely marine again in the third dive, during the second dive right before jumping we saw a group of dolphins, about twenty od them and during the dive we saw an octopus and about five moray eels.
Tuesday 19th of April, Dives:
1st Fish Tank
2nd Corromba House Reef
We started our day as usual at 6.30 am to process our first dive where we have seen a lot of reef fishes, blue triggerfish, clown fish, jackfish, angelfish, unicorn fish, and about fifty moray eels, different species to follow that dive with a chilling house reef dive to see nudibranch, clownfish, titan triggerfish, whitetip shark, and two turtles.



