Diving in Maldives impacted by El Niño?

[Dan]

Galapagos was a bit of a disappointment in April 2023), Anyway, it's a moot point now for me, for this year anyway.....

Just a few months before then they were fantastic. I did 2 weeks back-to-back in Coctober 2022. Lot’s of hammerheads & big-mama Whalesharks:

 

[CWK]

It has big impact on the Andaman Sea in Thailand at least in Jan this yr.
Colder water, jelly fish(big and small) and poor vis.

Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) Index | Vital Signs – Ocean Surface Topography from Space

sealevel.jpl.nasa.gov

This is the Indian Nino. El Nino on its own without specifying Indian El Nino, would generally refer to the Pacific dipole.