Trip Report Fuvahmulah 1-5 March 2025

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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.

 
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.
 
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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.


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.
 
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.
 
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