Scooter Diving in Maldives
Scuba Diving is undeniably a thrilling thing to do and with an underwater scooter it’s even more exciting!
Conditions in the Maldives lend themselves perfectly to scooter diving, the long expanses of reefs and intriguing channel edges become your playground as you zoom effortlessly along covering a lot more distance than travelling by fin power would allow.
Ocean currents are part of diving in the Maldives and although we mainly dive ‘with’ the current, sometimes we need to work a little bit, especially near the channels and scooters make light work of this with the additional bonus of conserving your air due to not having to breathe as hard!
It’s not just scooter divers who can deal with currents, the bigger pelagics such as sharks and rays love hanging out in a strong current and, with a scooter, it’s not unusual to find yourself surrounded by sharks and eagle rays in large numbers!
Scooter Diving Events
Euro-Divers Vilamendhoo, Lux* South Ari Atoll, Club Med Kani, Kurumba, Dhigali and Meeru all offer divers the chance to experience the thrill of scooter diving. Come and give it a go with a Scooter Introduction and then join our instructors on the dives along with your scooter or take the PADI Diver Propulsion Vehicle (DPV) Scooter Specialty for the freedom being able to scooter diver whenever the opportunity arises.
As part of Euro-Divers’ 5oth Anniversary year celebrations we have a series of ‘special’ weeks throughout 2022 with the following Scooter Weeks included:
- Scooter Weeks 2-15th May at Vilamendhoo
- Scooter Weeks 21-27th May at LUX* South Ari Atoll
- Scooter Week 5-15th July at Club Med Kani
- Scooter Week 20-26th July at Kurumba
- Scooter Weeks 9-22nd October at Meeru
Please see our Events Calendar for other celebratory weeks: Diving Events
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.
