Trip Report Fuvahmulah 1-5 March 2025

[Volleyball]

Thanks for sharing. Can’t view your video. The link is broken.

Click on the reddit link

 

[Dan]

Click on the reddit link

That one works. 14 seconds of Thresher shark footage, but I thought you posted < 90-second trip video also. What I see is this screenshot:

 

[Volleyball]

That one works. 14 seconds of Thresher shark footage, but I thought you posted < 90-second trip video also. What I see is this screenshot:

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Yes, have to keep social media private for work. I just posted it to reddit, the sound is all messed up as I would normally add music to it:

 

[Blackcrusader]

@Volleyball

We were supplied with a metal pole when diving in Tiger Zoo. Had Nina Erich been holding such pole on her hand, Zesty would not have a chance to chomp on her hand in that Tiger Beach accident

So, guys, make sure you carry and hold that pole when you are diving in Tiger Zoo. Hold it vertically and point it to the Tiger Shark when it gets too close to you.

Make sure to wear dark color gloves, fins & hood (especially those blond-hair divers). My dive buddy had a blond hair and I forgot to tell her about wearing hood. Luckily no Tiger getting too close to her head and there were several guides behind us watching our backs.

I was lucky that on my last trip I was able to stay with the guides above and behind the divers. We had 14 person Spanish dive group and some other divers so was really crowded.

We did not use poles on my recent trip. The thing about colours... no one ever mentioned what colours divers should wear. You had guides with white fins, bright yellow shorts, other bright colour and me in my white T shirt and orange fins.

 

[frogfish]

I was lucky that on my last trip I was able to stay with the guides above and behind the divers. We had 14 person Spanish dive group and some other divers so was really crowded.

We did not use poles on my recent trip. The thing about colours... no one ever mentioned what colours divers should wear. You had guides with white fins, bright yellow shorts, other bright colour and me in my white T shirt and orange fins.

Nice videos, also gives a good idea of what the dive is like ! Not for me I think…

 

[Blackcrusader]

The irony of Fuvahmulah lies in its deep diving, where you can occasionally spot seasonal mantas, whale sharks, mola mola, hammerheads, and threshers. Yet, Tiger Zoo is what attracts most of the visitors and is the complete opposite, a manufactured feeding dive that is open all year and located in a very shallow harbor. The only other large marine life we saw was a thresher; we were one hundred feet down, and I would guess it was another one hundred feet below us, so it looked like a tadpole

I had one thresher come past when I was deep looking for Hammerheads which we saw ... the thresher was above me which was nice.... but on another dive I was at around 140 ft with the thresher deeper.

 

[Matilds]

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.

I went in May with my son. We did 3 days of diving (arrived evening before diving and left at the end of the last day of diving- to ensure more than 24 hours, then flew to a resort to meet husband and other child for another 4 days).
For me it was a nice mix of diving and family time.