Dhigali Resort Maldives
Dhigali Island is pure Maldivian bliss. A luxury hideaway in the Raa Atoll 40-minute journey by seaplane from Male airport. Ringed by its house-reef that offer the wonder of the marine life just a few steps from your castaway villa or overwater bungalow.
Beyond the lagoon, the depths of the open sea promise unforgettable sights.
To set foot on Dhigali’s sands is to escape into an adventure on land, at sea or underwater, the thrill of discovery awaits.
The island has renewed it concept Introducing the new Premium All-Inclusive experience at Dhigali Maldives from 1st Dec 2020, the ultimate way to experience everything this verdant paradise has to offer.
Resort Website: www.dhigali.com
Euro-Divers Dhigali Maldives Dive & Water Sport Center
Our fully equipped PADI 5* dive center offers the full range of diving courses from beginner to professional level. With lagoon and house-reef facing directly the dive center it is the perfect place to start your diving adventure or simply practice your diving skills.
Whether you are keen to learn diving, get more experience or simply just dive, you will find what fits you best as we offer variety of trips to choose from.
Our morning dives, afternoon dive and night dives will bring you to the most amazing famous untouched dive sites in Raa Atoll.
With Manta cleaning stations, outside drop off reef walls, Maldivian underwater mountains known as “Thila” dive will give you chances to encounter a great diversity of fish, sharks, turtles and more along with untouched coral reefs, all those wonderful enchanted places awaits you to jump on board, take a big step and let us take care of the rest.
DIVING HIGHLIGHTS
2 tanks Manta Trip
Diving with Manta rays is one of the top wishes of a diver and we do all the best for the chances to be on our side, we are lucky to be not too far away from Baa Atoll where the famous “Hanifaru bay” UNESCO protected marine park is located and where hundreds of manta rays gather to feed on plankton every year.
Because it is a protected bay it is not allowed to scuba dive there but when the plankton changes it route, these magnificent giants travel into our atoll and right there is when the show starts during our dives.
Before each dive your instructor will give you a detailed briefing about Manta rays and their behavior and how to dive and behave around them so that you have the best chances to have them passing close by and sometimes even hanging around your bubbles !
Thila diving in Raa Atoll
With Euro-Divers Dhigali you have access to some of the most remote and untouched Thila`s. “Thila” in Dhivehi (Maldivian language) means underwater coral mountain.
Our favorite thila dive sites like Vadhoo thila, Kottefaru kuda thila or the famous “Labyrinth” thila are regularly on our daily diving program.
EURO-DIVERS DHIGALI MALDIVES TOP DIVE SITES
Padi e-learning
Start now! PADI e-learning is a great way to save valuable holiday time in Raa Atoll.
Become a PADI certified diver in no time by simply participating in all underwater adventures of the Open Water Course or Advanced Open Water Course and without spending time in a classroom during your holiday!
Downloads available
SNORKELING
Our experienced team of snorkeling guides is ready to explore with you the beauty below the surface.
Join us, beginners as well as experienced snorkelers are amazed by the huge amounts of colorful fish and spectacular reef formations.
We offer Dhigali house-reef guided tour, boat trip guided tours and private speed boat trips if you like to enjoy the moment with more privacy with as well your private tour guide.
SNORKELING HIGHLIGHTS
Snorkeling reef by boat
Jump on our luxury Dhigali boat for a guided snorkeling trip along the reef, coral gardens, abundant wild marine life, you might be lucky to encounter turtles while visiting spectacular reefs where you can discover the full range of what the ocean has to offer.
Private speed boat turtle reef or manta snorkeling
We offer as well private boat trip on our speed boat if you prefer to enjoy a pleasant boat trip with your love ones with more privacy.
As well with your private snorkeling guide into the water, there your choose if you prefer to go for the search of turtles or for the search of a once in a lifetime chance to watch these gentle giants Manta ray in their natural habitat.
UNESCO Biosphere Reserve Hanifaru Bay (seasonal from May to November / snorkeling only)
The jewel in the biological crown of Baa Atoll is a tiny bay called Hanifaru, where seasonal gatherings of hundreds of manta rays and sometimes even whale sharks, have made this site world famous in recent years, attracting tourists and marine biologists from across the globe to immerse themselves in the tropical waters amongst a feeding frenzy of these gentle giants.
Surely a once in lifetime experience when travelling to Raa Atoll during their specific period.
Snorkeling lessons
If you ever wished to just face down in the ocean and enjoy the sights under water, this intro opens this door for you. Our experiences instructors will give you the knowledge and show you the basic techniques you need to safely snorkel and swim along the reefs.
WATERSPORTS:
From relaxing activities like Stand-Up Paddle boarding or catamaran sailing up to breathtaking and thrilling action with Jet ski rides and Parasailing.
Our Water Sport Center offers a wide range of activities suitable for beginners, intermediate, experts and families alike.
Join us on the sunny side of life and enjoy the exciting water sport activities we have to offer.
Your safety is important to us. All necessary safety gear is provided during all water sport activities!
RELAXING
THRILLING
WATER SPORTS HIGHLIGHTS
PARASAILING
We are delighted to introduce our latest activity!
Parasailing is such a humbling and magical experience. A must try while in Dhigali.
Enjoy the breath-taking and magical view from above: beautiful islands, playing dolphins, manta rays and schools of fish can be spotted in the crystal clear water around the island from a totally new perspective.
JET SKI
Join our guided jet ski trips like dolphin search or private sandbank cruise or a simple fun ride. Euro-Divers Dhigali is using the latest Yamaha wave runner jet ski with low emissions and noise levels.
Manta rays search on our Private speed boat trips
Sightings all year round in Raa Atoll, which makes our manta search trip a must do activity.
Get the chance to encounter and even snorkel along these mighty creatures with your loved ones making this trip an unforgetable memory.
Our experienced guides will do their best to get you to the spots where the mantas are gathering based on daily updates across Raa Atoll.
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.
