Trip Report Fuvahmulah 1-5 March 2025

[Dan]

After liveaboard diving to Central Maldives, some of us continued to dive in Fuvahmulah for 5 days (15 dives) from 1st to 5th of March of 2025. Besides the usual suspects, we saw Tiger & Silvertip Sharks, Devil Ray, Striped Marlin. We stayed in Zero Degree Residence and dived with Fuvahmulah Dive School.

Diving trip itinerary is shown in Table 1, below.

Figure 1 shows dive sites around Fuvahmulah. Those sites marked with dive flag are the ones we dove in.

Figure1: Dive sites around Fuvahmulah, courtesy of Fuvahmulah Dive School.

Here’s the trip video.

 

[scubajasonr]

Great video, and thanks for sharing.

I am in the early stages of planning a trip to Fuvamulah in 2026, how long do you think it is sensible to stay on the island? My current plan is to split my stay between Fuvamulah and Addu Atoll.

 

[Dan]

Great video, and thanks for sharing.

I am in the early stages of planning a trip to Fuvamulah in 2026, how long do you think it is sensible to stay on the island? My current plan is to split my stay between Fuvamulah and Addu Atoll.

Thanks!

Nothing else is happening there, but diving (to me at least). So, 3 days of diving ( 5 days total) would be enough.

The reason I did 5 days of diving was because my original Far South, as posted below, went through a couple of oops:
1. Blue Voyager, the original boat we were supposed to go on for Far South (20 Feb - 2 Mar) caught fire.
2. Master Liveaboards replaced it with Maldives Master that had plumbing problems a month before the trip.
3. Master Liveaboards replaced it with Safira that was only operating in Central Maldives from 20 to 28 of February.

So we scrambled and added 2 more days of diving in Fuvahmulah.

Thread 'Last 2 spots with 15% off available on Blue Voyager Maldives Far South 20 Feb - 2 Mar 2025'

Oct 3, 2024

Some of my dive buddies got together and chartered Blue Voyager liveaboard to go diving in Maldives Far South for 10 night / 11 day trip (from 20 February to 2 March). By chartering the boat we are able to get 15% ($571 off) group discount for everyone, from $3810 to $3239 / diver.

Currently, we have last 2 remaining spots in a cabin available for a couple or 2 dive buddies that would like to share a cabin.

For more information about the trip, you can browse:

Blue Voyager Liveaboard - Master Liveaboards

Here is Master Liveaboards’ description of the offering…

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Fuvahmulah is already in the Far South as Addu. So the diving would be similar. If I were you, I’d combine Fuvahmulah with Central Maldives, like we ended up doing, unless you have been in Central Maldives.

 

[scubajasonr]

Thanks for the feedback. This year we are spending a week on Fuildhoo, so all going well will get some good central Maledivian diving in. Followed by a week on a liveaboard going to Hanifaru Bay, to hopefully see lots of mantas. I have dived in Ari Atoll in the past, but that was a lot of years ago...

2026 is still in the early planning stages. Three diving days on Fuvahmulah is consistent with what I have seen suggested elsewhere. Once I get the flights booked I can start getting a proper plan together.

 

[acidrush]

After liveaboard diving to Central Maldives, some of us continued to dive in Fuvahmulah for 5 days (15 dives) from 1st to 5th of March of 2025. Besides the usual suspects, we saw Tiger & Silvertip Sharks, Devil Ray, Striped Marlin. We stayed in Zero Degree Residence and dived with Fuvahmulah Dive School.

Diving trip itinerary is shown in Table 1, below.

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Figure 1 shows dive sites around Fuvahmulah. Those sites marked with dive flag are the ones we dove in.

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Figure1: Dive sites around Fuvahmulah, courtesy of Fuvahmulah Dive School.

Here’s the trip video.

After liveaboard diving to Central Maldives, some of us continued to dive in Fuvahmulah for 5 days (15 dives) from 1st to 5th of March of 2025. Besides the usual suspects, we saw Tiger & Silvertip Sharks, Devil Ray, Striped Marlin. We stayed in Zero Degree Residence and dived with Fuvahmulah Dive School.

Diving trip itinerary is shown in Table 1, below.

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Figure 1 shows dive sites around Fuvahmulah. Those sites marked with dive flag are the ones we dove in.

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Figure1: Dive sites around Fuvahmulah, courtesy of Fuvahmulah Dive School.

Here’s the trip video.

Awesome vid Dan! I just came back from a Deep south LOB trip last month. It was great! By the way, if you're ever in Maldives again, don't miss out the shark tank dive at Hulhumale near the airport. Tiger, Bull and Great Hammerhead all in a single dive. It was crazy!

 

[Dan]

Awesome vid Dan! I just came back from a Deep south LOB trip last month. It was great! By the way, if you're ever in Maldives again, don't miss out the shark tank dive at Hulhumale near the airport. Tiger, Bull and Great Hammerhead all in a single dive. It was crazy!

Thanks for your compliment!

Yes, that’s a cool dive site. I did it 4x already.

Here’s the 1st one:

 

[Volleyball]

Thanks for the feedback. This year we are spending a week on Fuildhoo, so all going well will get some good central Maledivian diving in. Followed by a week on a liveaboard going to Hanifaru Bay, to hopefully see lots of mantas. I have dived in Ari Atoll in the past, but that was a lot of years ago...

2026 is still in the early planning stages. Three diving days on Fuvahmulah is consistent with what I have seen suggested elsewhere. Once I get the flights booked I can start getting a proper plan together.

Fuvahmulah Scuba Club now has trips that dive both Fuvahmulah and Addu on the same day, which we haven't done yet. We had to fly and stay the night in Addu since the Fuvahmulah flights were cancelled; there is a cheap public ferry that goes between the two. If you go to Addu, try and reach out to your guesthouse about visitng the southern most point

 

[boqurant]

Looks like you got a little luckier than we did (on a LOB passing through Fuvamulah for a day in Feb) with the wildlife - little jealous The Marlin is very cool.

I wasn't a huge fan of the Tiger Zoo - training them to get used to divers seems like an accident waiting to happen, but I'm glad I did it once. We had two other dives off the northern end and southern plateau: the north was a mildly interesting drift over a reef (saw many better in Gaafu atoll) and our dive on the southern plateau was a bit of a washout as we got blown completely off by a huge incoming current... Nothing but the blue . Ah well.

I probably wouldn't go again, but the novelty was good, and it's nice to see that other folk had more luck!

 

[Tippytoes12]

You are almost always going to have a better experience doing multiple days with a local dive shop with a local guide whose forefathers have been in or near the water for generations, than a few dives at best. We are blessed to have very generous annual leave and went there for ten days after a liveaboard to celebrate our 25 th wedding anniversary. It was super cool to spend part of the day with big tiger sharks, a few hammers and a thresher ! I would really recommend staying on the island, we did a similar length trip to Addu the following year after another liveaboard, where the manta dives were incredible. But the rest of the diving in Addu was a lot better than Fuv.

 

[Volleyball]

Looks like you got a little luckier than we did (on a LOB passing through Fuvamulah for a day in Feb) with the wildlife - little jealous The Marlin is very cool.

I wasn't a huge fan of the Tiger Zoo - training them to get used to divers seems like an accident waiting to happen, but I'm glad I did it once. We had two other dives off the northern end and southern plateau: the north was a mildly interesting drift over a reef (saw many better in Gaafu atoll) and our dive on the southern plateau was a bit of a washout as we got blown completely off by a huge incoming current... Nothing but the blue . Ah well.

I probably wouldn't go again, but the novelty was good, and it's nice to see that other folk had more luck!

Just an overall FYI. At the Fuvamulah Tiger Zoo, fish heads, often tuna, are placed under rocks. In Tiger Beach in the Bahamas, trained feeders hand-feed them from a bait box. In the Maldives, there have been reported tiger attacks, including one recent non-fatal single bite on a female diver on the head who was wearing a brightly colored hood. Yet no reports of a fatal attack in Fuvamulah/Tiger Zoo. There have been at least two fatalities at Tiger Beach, the Bahamas, such as a German tourist; these events are obviously downplayed