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Sylvia, Nadia, Sylvie, Mohamed, Wilhelm, Dave, Neil and Brian, our newly certified PADI Open Water Scuba Instructors surely live up to this autumn’s unofficial IDC slogan! Congratulations once again to all of you! It was tough, but – you did something others only dream of! Read the rest of this entry »
In support of the European Shark Week and global shark conservation efforts, along with the great success of the previous two years’ events, we are thrilled to announce that we will again run the Shark and Ray Week Special in October.
Aimed at raising awareness of the importance of sustaining shark populations, increasing education about these vulnerable creatures and giving our divers the opportunity to dive at some of the most amazing sites, we are hoping for yet another great month of shark and ray action. Read the rest of this entry »
Aahh, we love our jobs, especially when we get to take part in very special, slightly different and this time – romantic dives. A couple of days ago we helped Ben, one of our guests, devise a plan to take his girlfriend on a dive. It turned out to be a very memorable one, for both of them.
Louise, diving in open water for the first time, didn’t have the slightest idea that her first dive would be so… well, stressful. She might have forgotten the ‘never hold your breath’ rule that our instructor Muin had taught her when Ben knelt down on the sandy bottom, showing her THE question written on the diving slate. Read the rest of this entry »
Ute and Miha are here again to run this year’s second IDC on Kuredu.
The course kicked off with the 4 days Assistant Instructor Course and we’re happy to announce that all 8 candidates have successfully completed it! They’re now busy with the Emergency First Response Instructor Course and the 6 days Open Water Scuba Instructor Course will start on Monday! Read the rest of this entry »
We’re proud to report that we took part in yet another successful Clean up the world event on Sunday.
A special thanks goes to over 50 guests who participated in the reef and beach clean-ups around Kuredu. More than 20 decided to help us clean the beach, and another 30 kindly offered to give us a hand with the underwater clean-up.
Divers did their bit for the environment by Read the rest of this entry »
As usual, at this time of the year, the international Clean Up the World event has taken place on Komandoo Island Resort.
During this year’s edition, six guests and about twenty staff were involved in the activities which involved the clean up of the lagoon and part of the house reef. Several bags full of litter were taken off of the reef.
The kitchen department wanted Read the rest of this entry »
This year, like every year Prodivers Kuredu will work in conjunction with Kuredu Island Resort to take part and make a difference in the “International Clean up the World Day” which takes place during the third weekend in September.
For more than 15 years we have encouraged all the guests on the Island to take part in this special experience, the largest worldwide volunteer event “Clean up the Read the rest of this entry »
Imagine a squadron of eagle rays streaming past, a couple of majestic mantas lingering around for half an hour and you diving with a scooter amongst them. Oh, and a whaleshark.
As evidenced by the photo, one can have amazing encounters around Vakarufalhi. This one took place at Digura Corner and there seems to be something about scooters that attracts big fish, as our divers have been having similar experiences quite frequently. Whalesharks remain surprisingly calm and don’t seem to be bothered by the excited divers at all.
What is even more awesome is that Marco, one of the divers, filmed the enviable encounter. Not the worst idea for a souvenir from the Maldives!
On the last day of August we were pleased to welcome Birgitta and Goetz from Singapore back to Kuredu for their second visit.
Their last trip here was more than 10 years ago and since that time, a lot of things have changed. One of these changes includes the introduction of Closed Circuit Rebreather Diving, the fascination of “diving without bubbles”.
It was this thrill and the prospect of becoming certified CCR Divers Read the rest of this entry »
You think you’ve seen it all. And then you come across masters of camouflage that amaze you with their colours, patterns and un-fish-like behaviour.
Anyone being fortunate enough to spot a frogfish will surely stop and ponder its spectacular and bizarre appearance. They are bottom dwellers, using their tiny fins to clumsily move around, and if the need arises to swim, they suck in water through their massive mouth and eject it from their gill holes behind their head, jet-propelling themselves across the bottom. Attracted to the tasty looking lure on their head, the prey is rapidly swallowed whole as the frogfish literally stretches its mouth to the same size as its body. How creepy is that? Read the rest of this entry »
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