When you visit one of the best scuba diving destinations in the world, you’ll naturally want to see the very best of what it has to offer and, in the Maldives, you’ll be spoilt for choice.
Divers who choose Kurumba Maldives Resort in North Male Atoll for their holiday will have one of the country’s best dive sites on their doorstep – Tuna Factory, also known as Chicken Island and Fish Tank; it’s a site not to miss and the Euro-Divers team can’t wait to show it off.
Just a 10-minute boat trip away from Kurumba, lies a mind-blowing dive site that is likely to be logged as one of the best dives ever you’ve ever done.
Tuna Factory, as its name suggests, is situated just in front of the harbour of a tuna factory and is a shallow dive, with the best parts at just 5-10 metres in depth – great news for those who always wish their tank would stay fuller for longer!
Once you’ve descended, you’ll understand how this site also gets the name ‘Fish Tank’ for diving here is like being inside a tropical aquarium with large numbers of schooling bannerfish, different species of moray eel and, the stars of the show – stingrays.
On a good day, divers might see 50 or more stingrays in just one dive, a spectacular experience. After dark, Kurumba divers are close enough to be able to visit Tuna Factory for night dives where the action often includes appearances by guitarfish.
This incredible dive site is also accessible, by day, from Club Med Finolhu, Kani, Eriyadu and Meeru.
As part of Euro-Divers’ 5oth Anniversary year celebrations we have a special Stingray Week at Kurumba from 6th to 12th June – we hope you can join us.
Please see our Events Calendar for other celebratory weeks.
Have you dived at Tuna Factory/ Chicken Island/ Fish Tank? Let us know in the comments below.
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.
