Maldives

We are most pleased to offer the finest live-aboard diving in the Maldives, as exemplified by the lavish, air-conditioned, 16 - passenger Madivaru 7.

The Madivaru 7

With two major live-aboards, we can now dive wide areas of these exotic atolls. We also offer a beautiful, 50 person hotel named Madoogali for sybariticshore-based diving.

Dive sites in the Maldives are widely scattered in a nation composed entirely of 1196 tiny atolls. The great magic of the Maldives is the tame fish life to be found on very shallow, sun dappled reefs. This is one of the best places in the world for fish photography. The fish are intensely colorful, swarmin great numbers over the reef, and are nearly tame. Those of you who want all of the new species that abound in the Indian Ocean will find a treasure trove of subjects here.

Our programs are ten to fourteen days in length, and offer atleast four magnificent dives per day. Each dive is wildly different, and some are like nothing I have ever seen elsewhere. There are rich, stunning reefs six feet beneath the surface. There are other dives where we briefly cross the lip of a channel at one hundred and twenty feet with immense current soaring above us -- yet we are in totally still water!

There is one site with a vertical stack of caves whose ceilings, one above the other, are completely lined with pink and blue soft corals! See more coral. We had manta rays. We had seven hundred-pound groupers. We had a school of jacks in the hundreds in crystal-bluewater. We had pink sailfin leaf fish. Indeed the fish photography is simply the easiest and finest in the world, because all the fish are so tame.

These cruises are among the most adventurous we offer anywhere. You can relax on deck, under a riot of brilliant stars. You can water ski across limpid lagoons, or snorkel in 84 degree water. It is fabulous!

For those of you who have dived the Caribbean, the Red Sea, Micronesia, the South Pacific do we have something new for you! Photographers, prepareto be thrilled!