Posts Tagged ‘Snorkeling’

Untouched by snorkellers: the Noon Atoll

Friday, January 6th, 2012
Untouched by snorkellers: Noon Atoll

New year, new activities in the snorkelling team! We’ve been eager to revive the snorkelling full day trips to Noon and after having run two, we must say we’re impressed!

The Noon Atoll is one of the more undiscovered areas of the Maldives and its pristinity gives you the feeling of being one of the first people lucky enough to visit it.  Coral reefs in Noon offer some spectacular snorkelling due to its interesting topography, only a handful of snorkellers have had a chance to take a look at what lies beneath the surface at sites that have been a divers’ domain so far. (more…)

Snorkelling Specials

Monday, October 17th, 2011
Discover Snorkelling

The snorkel section has had a makeover over the past few months and we have added a couple of specials!

The Discovery Package offers a little bit of everything – a house reef snorkel, a half  day trip and a full day trip.  During the house reef tour you’ll get familiar with the house reef and get some information about the marine life there, whereas on a half day trip of your choice (Easy Going boat for the relaxed individual, the Wall boat for the more daring and the Caves boat for the turtle observers) you’ll set out on a bot and explore reefs around Kuredu.  On a Full Day Boat you venture further down south in the Lhaviyani Atoll and explore the reefs in the area,  hopefully snorkel with Manta Rays and have a relaxing lunch on the boat while overlooking a picture perfect tropical island. (more…)

Our new Kuredu Prodivers Snorkel Team!

Monday, May 30th, 2011
Snorkel Team Prodivers Kuredu Maldives

Barbara has been in our team for almost one year now, and having worked in the office for most of that time, she decided to bring a bit more excitement into her life and has by now become a great snorkel guide! She’s keen on sharing her passion for the underwater world with guest and we’re happy that we’ll have here for another year!

About 2 weeks ago Jenna and Swen from South Africa arrived to help the snorkel team. (more…)

Artifical Reefs – The Lhaviyani Shipwrecks

Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
Shipyard Maldives Kuredu

The Republic of Maldives consists of around 1200 islands, divided into 26 Atoll, spread over an area of less than 300 000 square kilometers, with just 1% land and 99%  water.

So it’s not really surprising that the most important means of  transport in Maldives are ships and boats and where man and machine meet, there has to be a few incidents along the way… accidentally or  on purpose! However, where humans fail – nature creates! (more…)

As good as it gets

Monday, January 31st, 2011
Manta Ray Kuredu Maldives

There’s plenty of fish in the sea. Some of them are overlooked, some admired briefly, some make you want to play peekaboo with them for hours. And then – there’s manta rays.

Kuredu boasts an iconic long white stretch of sand that is impressive in itself. But currently the very mention of the sandbank is sufficient to bring excitement to both snorkelers and divers alike (admittedly, to (more…)

Yippee! It’s that time of year again!

Friday, January 21st, 2011
Manta Ray Kuredu Maldives

No, we don’t mean Christmas & New Year, although that was a lot of fun!  We mean manta ray season for snorkelers!

The numbers of sightings are picking up all over the atoll, especially at Dhanifaru and right here on our door step at the Sandbank.  This means that it has become time to restart our very popular manta ray course which we offer to our snorkeling guests. (more…)

Whoa! Whale sharks in the Lhaviyani!

Thursday, January 13th, 2011
Whaleshark Lhaviyani Atoll Maldives

As many of you will know, the elusive whale shark is an extremely infrequent visitor to our waters, so when we heard a rumour that some of them had been spotted on the outreef at Kanifushi we immediately filled a boat with divers and headed down there!

You can imagine how happy we were to come across a couple of them patrolling up and down on top of the reef before diving down into the blue and we immediately jumped in (more…)

The largest smile in the ocean…

Friday, November 5th, 2010
Whaleshark Kuredu Maldives

The buzz of excitement around both Kuredu and Komandoo has been unbelievable the past week or so,  as our divers and snorkelers have been eagerly waiting to head out on one of the special full day trips that we’ve had on. The plankton rich reefs around the Atoll have been attracting some very big visitors indeed – whalesharks.

Normally quite rare in the Lhaviyani Atoll, we watched on in amazement as the whalesharks have been returning day after day for almost 2 weeks now.  It turns out that the biggest fish (more…)

Torpedo Ray spotted on half day snorkel trip!

Saturday, September 18th, 2010
Torpedoray

It was a bright sunny day last week as one of our half day snorkel trips headed towards Tinga Giri for their first snorkel site with our guide Karola.  After snorkeling there and enjoying all the fish life in the shallow waters, they then went on to check out Kudadu, a little further away.

With its beautiful top reef sloping off down to 15-20 metres, the snorkel site Kudadu is located next to a channel, and therefore, (more…)

Goodbye Sofia…

Wednesday, August 25th, 2010
Sofia

Sadly, a couple of days ago, Sofia left our Snorkel Team and headed back home to Sweden. After being with us for almost a year, she has  decided to move on and look for greener pastures.

The initial plan is to take a much needed break, and to do some traveling.

Sofia will be remembered for her enthusiasm for the underwater world, and for her love of (more…)