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The traditional Christmas Treasure Hunt took place on Komandoo house reef yesterday. Santa came to Komandoo early in the morning and left hidden some presents on the coral reef. Fifteen divers and eight snorkelers were lucky enough to find them. Thank you Santa for all the presents and we all promise to be good guys next year so that we will get some more!! (more…)
We’re very flattered every time a familiar face enters the front door. Who wouldn’t be please to have up to 800 repeater guests per year returning to dive? The elaborate repeater discount programme than Prodivers launched along with the establishment in 1988 is one of its kind in the world and, given that almost 25 per cent of our divers are repeaters, seems to be working well.
We’re happy to give our divers a 10 per cent discount on their dives for their second visit, 15 per cent for their third, 20 per cent for their fourth and 25 per cent for all subsequent visits until their 10th visit when they dive free of charge. Apart from the generous discount that we reckon is encouraging enough for them to return, along with several PD freebies, what it comes down to is the flexibility that we’re more than willing to show, especially with regard to dive sites requests and instructor preferences. (more…)
Despite its wide array of techniques used to avoid or thwart attackers, even an octopus can find itself beyond the line of defense. Willi took a photo of a rare sighting – an octopus’ failed attempt to escape a moray eel’s grasp.
Besides its unusual appearance by far the most striking characteristic of the octopus is their ability to hide in plain sight. Using a network of pigment cells and specialized muscles, it can almost instantaneously match the colours, patterns and even textures of its surroundings. (more…)
On the 20th of April, when Frank, Hanna, Markus, Jonas, Tessa, Wolfgang, Sonia and our videographer Julia headed out to the ‘Untouched East’, there was 1 diver in the group not fully aware of the plans for the day…
Wolfgang, who has visited us here on Kuredu 10 times, wanted to propose to his long term girlfriend Sonia. Wolfgang had planned to propose to Sonia during their first dive on MuDa Thila. With the element of surprise being critical to the event, Frank had to convince Sonia to swim away from her buddy so that he could get ready prepared banner set up for the big question.
When Sonia returned together with Frank to the group, she was suddenly faced with a huge banner with THE question on it: “Will you marry me?” Without hesitation she immediately ticked “Yes”! (more…)
At the beginning of April, Prodivers was very pleased to welcome Dagmar and Klaus-Jürgen for their 10th diving holiday on Kuredu!
They first came to Kuredu in 2006, and have been coming twice every year since!
One of Dagmar and Klaus-Jürgens favourite dive sites is Anemone Thila, where a big fat pink frog fish is the main attraction at the moment – getting bigger and bigger every day! (more…)
Two of our repeater guests, Hermann from Austria (17 times) and Carsten from Germany (4 times), went out for a morning dive to Maagiri South and came back with a great picture of a ribbon eel!
Ribbon Eels are very often seen at Nakolhu Giri, but the one at Maagiri was very unexpected but therefore even more appreciated!
It was already close to the end of the dive when Hermann suddenly stopped (more…)
We were very pleased to welcome John, Edel and Georg again to Kuredu, who were visiting us this year for the 10th time and therefore enjoying their diving for free!
John was already diving with us in the mid 90’s and is proud at having logged more than 1500 dives, with over 200 of those being with us here in the Lhaviyani Atoll! John also completed his Nitrox Course with us here in the Maldives.
Edeltraut and George dived with us here on Kuredu for the first time in 2003. (more…)
Peter and Kathy have now been happily married for 40 years, and what better way to celebrate than with a dive!
Kathy’s bridal veil, pictured here on the left, is the original veil that she wore on the big day 40 years ago. In addition to having being worn for the ceremony, the veil made it’s second appearance for their 35th anniversary, as part of an underwater ceremony, also while diving with us here in the Maldives. (more…)
After 6 days of intensive training with Prodivers instructor Armin, our repeater guest Wolfgang successfully completed the Evolution Rebreather Course and is now qualified to indulge in the fascinating world of silent and bubble-free diving.
During Daniela and Wolfgang´s last holiday on Kuredu, he was so awestuck by the Rebreather Introduction Dive that he set his mind on enrolling in the full course. (more…)
We would like to personally introduce you one of our candidates who is participating in this second IDC in 2010.
Ivo Kerver from Holland actually started diving with us in January 2008 attending our Discover Scuba Diving program with instructor Steve that time. He and his family came back as Rescue Diver in January 2009 and Ivo joined the Specialty Course Sea Turtle Diver with our instructor Katrin. (more…)
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