Right in the beginning of May we had to say goodbye to one of our likeable French speaking instructor Renaud who decided to take a break from the island life for a while and go back to France. We wish Renaud all the best and we hope to see him again one day here in Continue reading
Dear Valued Guests, As the Summer wanes and the Winter approaches, the sunny Maldives Islands remain the most popular destination for a dreamy holiday escape. Crown & Champa Resorts mark the month of August by celebrating Newlyweds and Honeymooners. There’s no better place to start forever together than in a romantic paradise, surrounded by powder Continue reading
Dear Valued Guests, We extend to you a very warm welcome and wish you an enjoyable experience at our Resort. We are delighted with the opportunity to have you as our guest at Vilamendhoo Island Resort & Spa, where you can expect to find your sense of personal renewal during your stay. In the last Continue reading
June was a good month at Euro-Divers Vilamendhoo. A month of mainly good weather, plenty of sunshine, a soft breeze coming from the south-west and calm seas. We are now officially in the ‘wet’ season or the South-West Monsoon, after the typical, stormy change in May. With this season the water has become rich in Continue reading
What a fantastic month here in South Ari Atoll! Perfect visibility, calm seas and gorgeous sunshine. Niklas and Sonja decided to take the opportunity to proclaim their love for each other with a breathtaking underwater proposal (she said yes!), even though Sonja thought it was a media stunt for Facebook at first! Mantas have been Continue reading
It has been an exciting month here at Vilamendhoo with lots of changes. Our long-time instructors Hussein and Leila have gone to greener pastures with Euro-Divers Kurumba, and we welcomed Natalie and Nikolai in exchange from Kurumba! A big ‘WELCOME TO THE TEAM’ from us to them, and best of luck in your new adventure Continue reading
Dear Guests, Maruhaba! It is my pleasure to email this 1st monthly newsletter. Each month, I look forward to sharing with you interesting news about Vilamendhoo Island Resort. To those guests who stayed at Vilamendhoo this year, once again, thank you for your visit. To all our guests, the Vilamendhoo team wishes you and your family a Continue reading
November at Vilamendhoo has already gone and we are all ready for the busy month of December and especially, with the change of Monsoon We are all getting impatient to get the good side of it with impressive visibility but also, great currents bringing on all our dives sites a multitude of fish life! We Continue reading
And another month of diving at Vilamendhoo under the sign of Mantas with our 2 dives sites offering a unique ballet for the pleasure of all divers, whatever their levels. We had the pleasure to welcome Johanna Zimmerhackel who’s currently collaborating with Global Fin Project that study coral reef sharks and rays in order to Continue reading
In September at Vilamendhoo Resort Maldives we had the great opportunity to have Matt Wenger our PADI Regional Manager with us for 2 days coming to share some feedback and also, coming diving with us. And we also had the pleasure to have Valerie & Christian, multi-repeaters from Rihivelhi who came to do their PADI Continue reading
Almost Our entire guest who has been in August was very lucky seeing school of Eagle Rays here in our House Reef. From morning to Sunset time these amazing Eagle Rays was there to say hello to our divers. They were so friendly that they came so close to divers and making back loops : Continue reading
June was all about Mantas at Euro-Divers Vilamendhoo Island Resort. Every Manta trip we did was successful. With the help of www.mantatrust.org we could identify some of the Mantas we have seen in our resent Trips. Find below some Information about these beauties. Sophie is a juvenile female manta that was first identified in November Continue reading
May is already here with the South-West Monsoon announcing small currents and bringing planktons to the East part of the Atoll. This is of course a great timeframe for us as the Mantas already arrived on Vilamendhoo Island resort & Spa for the pleasure of our divers. The famous Coral Hills and his cleaning station Continue reading
April was another great month of diving at Vilamendhoo Island Resort & Spa. With many new faces and faces which we already know since several years. Great to dive with our multi repeaters again. We did some many great dives on many channels where we had great visibility and excellent currents. Many excellent creatures big Continue reading
March has been a great month at Euro-Divers Vilamendhoo Maldives with our multi-repeaters coming back for some great diving with us. Especially on our full day trips to see Whales Sharks and Mantas. Our trips to Rangali Madivaru, our Manta cleaning station was remarkable this year with Mantas at every dive. Even our instructors and Continue reading
First month of the year on the beautiful Vilamendhoo Island Resort & Spa and all the conditions just met our expectations with some great dives following the North-East Monsoon. With some medium and strong currents our dives sites are getting very busy about fish life and some beautiful encounters like Oceanic Manta on Vilingily Corner Continue reading
The month of May 2016 will be a special month for repeater clients at Euro-Divers Maldives Vilamendhoo Island Resort! We will offer you the Fluo Night Dive at no extra charge during your stay! May 2016 is when we will offer the Fluo Night Dive without any additional charges to all our repeater clients! The travel arrangement can be made through light Continue reading
December was another beautiful month here at Euro-Divers Vilamendhoo Maldives with some very special encounter on the East Side of the Ari Atoll… What a surprise on the 10th December for our divers but also the instructors on their way to our dive site 7th Heaven where they saw a Humpback Whale at the surface Continue reading
November has been another busy month for Euro-Divers Vimamendhoo Maldives with lots of experienced divers allowing us to visit some of our challenging dive sites. We had some days with strong currents for the happiness of our current lovers, especially the numerous repeaters back here enjoyed many beautiful dives. We started again with our full day Continue reading
Good day everybody!!! Today the team at Euro-Divers Vilamendhoo would like to introduce our dive site Dhigurah Arches. Dhigurah Arches is a long reef dive in the channel. It is a very popular dive site of us and around 45min boat ride away from Vilamendhoo. Usually we always go there for the 3rd dive of Continue reading
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.
The golden rule with scuba-diving is “never hold your breath” and so is my saying “Just B(-reath)” stay in the moment.
That trip changed everything. Since 2014, I visited more than 50 countries in three continents. Diving came into my life in 2015 when I decided to finish Open Water Course in Thailand – that time I spent all my money on that and had to hitchhike from Thailand to Russia for 1 month! Besides Thailand, I gained experience in Egypt, Colombia, Spain and Vietnam.
2019, 2020, 2021 – still in Maldives, enjoying what I love the most. Diving brings me peace, teaching brings me joy by seeing my students learning how to dive, experiencing new world, improving their skills and overcoming their fears.
My last job before diving instructor was Senior HR Specialist in a clinical trial company in Beijing, China. Since I had my first diving experience in Vietnam as a tourist, I couldn’t forget this magical sensation underwater and I ended up spending all of my holiday’s diving in Southeast Asia. It was at the moment when I found “holiday diving” couldn’t meet my passion anymore, that I decided to become an instructor.
If you like immersive experience, scuba diving is definitely the best one among many others; If you like traveling around the world, you would love to see the 70% of the planet which is underwater; If you want to experience the feeling of being weightless, scuba diving is the best option as walking in the space still takes time to realize; If you want to disconnect, to escape, to forget, to calm down, to cheer up, to release stress, to clear your head, go diving.”
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.
The biggest challenge currently we have (like many others) is to survive the Covid times, however, we remain positive and hopeful that tourism will bounce back sooner or later and we will be able to dive with our international friends as we did pre-covid.
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 am a scuba instructor since 7 years, I have been working with Euro-Divers since in Egypt then later they gave me the opportunity to work in the Maldives where I still live. As a female diver I’ve never had any trouble in this activity, neither since I am instructor. Generally, in the diving industry, you will find yourself outnumbered more by men than women so that can be intimidating at first but hey! guys have realized by now that us girls can be as good (if not better) as them underwater 😉 !
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. That’s how I end up in the Maldives, Club Med Kani, where I was approached by one of the dive instructors to start my new addiction!
I am the perfect example of someone who was scared of diving, the only advice I could give is to believe in yourself, diving is for anyone who want to go above their comfort zone and achieve what you think you are not able to do. The best evasion of the mind is to be underwater but also to share this passion to others.
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.
Becoming a diver gives you the chance to feel, to live, to explore, and to admire this unique underwater world. Just jump, open your eyes, and take your first breath in the Ocean. And, when you will be surrounded by those beautiful aquatic creatures you will understand how it is like to fly in paradise.”
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.
Like everyone has different food taste, everyone can find different diving taste, not only for the depth and time, also finding different big/small animals, corals, topography, enjoy the silence, zero-gravity, water flow etc. Diving can be your lifetime activity. Come and join us for your diving experience. It can be a chance to find new step!”
