Thursday 3 July 2014

Scuba diving around Nellaidhoo Thila in Maldives

The islands of Maldives are places for most beautiful marine life and colorful reefs for scuba diving. The best way to witness them yourself is jump into water as a scuba diver. Maldives is one of those places, wherever you look is beautiful and something to do for scuba diving and snorkeling.

Nellaidhoo Thila is a wonderful place for scuba diving in Maldives. Don’t forget to take a camera as you’ll regret this afterwards. Get ready to encounter black and white tip reef sharks underwater around this thila. When scuba diving in Nellaidhoo thila, you will see mantas towering above you and large schools of giant trevallies swimming in the water. You may also spot moray eels, leopard sharks and on the sea bottom there are hard corals and big rocks that will surely amaze you.

There is another reef in the area called magic mushroom, where you dive as deep as 28 meters. It’s a mushroom-shaped 80 square metre head of the pinnacle at around 13 metres deep. Here you can spot interesting sea spices like nudibranchs and mantis shrimp.

On the west side of the reef around Naiuaadhoo Island, you get to experience the adventure dive in Maldives of Buda Cave. The cave mouth is an incredible 60 meters across, rising from a depth of 30 to 25 meters. Plenty of surprises await you as you venture 15 meters into the cave. Remember to take your torch to spot sleeping nurse sharks and wandering white tip reef sharks. Towards the south side of the cave you will find at least 4-5 marble rays dozing behind 2 large rocks. When seen from the inside, the contrast of the sunlight filtering through the water framed by the cavern walls makes for a spectacular photo, especially if you catch a white tip against the light.

On leaving the cave the hard coral covering the wall is rich with amazing creatures. Curious Napoleon wrasse seem to follow you up the wall and you could even spot a turtle and a few mantas. A wonderful way to end your dive!

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