Top of most divers’ wish lists when visiting the Maldives are lots of fish, stunning reefs and encounters with sharks and rays. Guests diving with Euro-Divers Havodda are in for a treat – all of these and more can be seen on Havodda’s excellent house reef – no boat required!
The dive starts in the shallow and sheltered lagoon with abundance of baby black tip reef sharks and jack fish swimming around. After a short swim you arrive at the wall, gradually sloping down to about 35m, making it a perfect dive site for all certification levels from Open Water divers doing their first dives to more experienced Advanced Open Water divers.
The East side of the island has a huge variety of healthy corals that are home to a wide range of colourful reef fish; it’s also a great place to encounter sharks, barracuda and stingrays. Hawksbill turtles and spotted eagle rays are a common sight and are known for not being shy of divers, creating some amazing photo opportunities. Amongst the corals, divers with a keen eye will be able to discover a lot of hidden treasures such as leaf fish, moray eel, shrimps, tiger cowries and lobsters.
The North side has another amazing and stunningly beautiful wall, slightly steeper and deeper than the East Side. It is easily accessible via stairs located at the end water villa jetty. It’s just a short swim to the channel leading to the wall. This side is more susceptible to currents making it more likely that you will encounter hunting jack fish and grey reef sharks. Turtles, stingrays and white tip reef sharks can also be seen here.
Experienced divers can take a short dingy ride and do a deep blue water entry, drifting to the corner connecting the North and East Side. This dive is particularly popular when stronger currents hit the corner, turning it into an amazing drift dive. These slightly stronger currents attract hunting sharks and tuna, creating an amazing spectacle. The closer you get to the jetty, the weaker the currents become, taking you past the vibrant and lively reef to end the dive.
Everything started with my Open Water Course at Koh Tao, Thailand. I’m hooked with the first breath I took underwater – this magical and peaceful world with all these different colors and creatures made me forget about everything else. It felt like an addiction.
This time made me realize that I don’t want to keep diving only as a hobby. I wanted to become a Diving Instructor and make diving my profession.
I was working as an entertainer in one of the resorts in South Male atoll. The first time I tried diving I absolutely fell in love with it, so every day off I would go diving.
I was lucky enough to meet people from Euro-Divers who helped me complete my instructor course and employment later on.
That trip changed everything. Since 2014, I visited more than 50 countries in three continents.
2019, 2020, 2021 – still in Maldives, enjoying what I love the most.
Im sonnigen Süden (Ägypten) lernte ich im Urlaub die unglaubliche Unterwasserwelt bei einem Schnuppertauchgang kennen und lieben.
Anfangs arbeitete ich im Tauchcenter im Büro, mir wurde jedoch schnell klar, dass ich die Gäste nicht nur über Wasser sondern auch unter Wasser begleiten wollte. Somit machte ich die Divemaster Ausbildung.
I studied Hotel management and ended up working for several years in different Hotels/Resorts around Italians seaside where I spend my days off diving and achieving the Dive Master rating.
I choose to stay in Oman because of its unspoiled dive site, beaches and many undiscovered dive places! We do not have mass tourism here and the country itself is spectacular besides being the safest place to live in.
Bored and burnt out of the stressful life in Holland, I quit my job as Manager Back Office & Finance and I went to Curacao for holiday. On this tropical island I took my first breaths under water with Instructor Marc, who is still my buddy in life.
Diving keeps me grounded, relaxed and connected with Mother Nature (myself). It supports me to let go, to put things into perspective and it helps me to stay focused and balanced in my position as a manager.
But diving was not at all my purpose of the journey, in fact I was not even a diver yet, I became a diver after I got passionate in freediving in Egypt in 2012 while freediving with dolphin in the wild, eager to become a snorkeling guide, I did my life guard licence and then my PADI open water!
I love freediving but scuba diving is an all other story for me, learning scuba diving make you discover part of yourself you didn’t know, you learn to control things that you would have never imagined possible, I regularly see many of my students discovering how calm they can be underwater when in life they tend to be hyperactive and then in the other hand I see calm or introverted persons becoming excited and move like a torpedo underwater 🙂 so diving might not be for everyone but it is definitely to discover!
I decided after my hospitality studies to enter this fascinating new world. I have started my career in Club Med as Guest Service and had the opportunity to travel some of the famous destinations for diving or snorkeling.
I am the perfect example of someone who was scared of diving, the only advice I could give is to believe in yourself.
But since I was young, I knew I wanted to travel the world, to go on adventures, have fun and meet people from everywhere. Unfortunately, those jobs didn’t give me the opportunity to do it so after 5 years I decided to move to Thailand.
Scuba Diving is a sport of passion.
During this time, I wanted to try something new, so I started scuba diving and I will never forget my first underwater experience. I felt nervous at first but at the same time a lot of excitement.
Some people might think that diving is a difficult sport, but there are many ways to enjoy safe diving for any age or gender.
