If your ideal Maldives escape comes with the following caveats: quiet and secluded grown-up paradise, sustainable but luxurious, great wellness and spa facilities, an excellent house reef for snorkelling, and uncrowded dive sites, you might think it’s too much to ask but at Kagi Maldives Resort & Spa you can have everything on your wish list and more!
Located on the secluded tip of North Malé Atoll, Kagi is an undiscovered divers’ paradise and home to a Euro-Divers PADI 5* Dive Centre offering the full range of PADI courses and scuba diving activities for divers of all experience levels. Due to its out-of-the-way location, divers at Kagi often enjoy having the dive sites to themselves with just our expert guides, their buddy and their bubbles for company – this gives a private charter-like experience without specifically booking one!
The Maldives is renowned for spectacular diving and at Kagi that’s exactly what you get. Beautiful shallow reefs, steep wall drop-offs, the deeper underwater islands called thilas and channels where the currents flow fast – divers get a huge variety of reefs with no two the same. Marine life is in abundance with all the big bucket list creatures waiting to be seen including sharks, eagle rays, turtles and huge schools of colourful reef fish. Mantas frequent the cleaning stations, colourful soft coral hangs from the ceilings of overhangs. The star of the show amongst our dive sites is Helengeli Thila where, in the right conditions, hundreds of grey reef sharks can be seen. To get the most out of this sometimes-challenging site, it is recommended that divers complete their Nitrox certification course if they are not already an Enriched Air Diver.
Just steps away from the beach is Kagi’s incredible house reef, offering convenience for both snorkelers and divers who want to experience the reef on their own schedule. See if you can spot sleeping rays and nurse sharks.
For a totally different perspective, our watersports centre has glass-bottomed kayaks which can be taken to the house reef and lagoon. If the indulgences of the delicious food and tempting cocktails are too much to resist, achieve some balance by taking out the SUP Mirage where you can pedal and give your core strength a workout at the same time!
We look forward to showing you the marine delights of Kagi soon; villas can be booked directly with the resort at Kagi Maldives Resort & Spa.
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 Malé 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.
