Maldives accommodations and resort for april?

[LaMissJude]

Duh? Diving fully dry?? In the Maldives???!!!
In more than 3 years I never had a water temperature less than 27 degres celsius... and this is rare! more likely 28 or 29 degres celsius...

And for the wind, some days it's a bit cold, specially if it's a grey day, but it's not THAT cold ^_^

 

[CamC]

I know! I'd have dived in just my speedos, if that wasn't a crime against aesthetics. My average non-vacation sea temp is ~ 10c so I refuse to wear anything other than a shorty on holiday, even if it kills me. In the Maldives, even that is overkill.

 

[kaerius]

Drysuit in warm water, why? I could understand it if it was technical or commercial deep diving, but sport, nope. Thanks for the heads up though guys, I'll unpack the semi-dry, it weighs like 3 kilo dry. I've dived thailand without thermal protection, in just shorts, so I'm thinking I'll be fine in the 5mm then.

 

[kaerius]

To wrap this up. I had a wonderful time in the maldives. Lots of awesome dives. Aside from the liveaboard(would recommend them as well, Nautilus two, with the caveat that most customers will be german speakers), I spent my time on Maafushi.

To be honest, Maafushi has a limited selection of divesites, and doesn't have all the maldives has to offer(no hammerheads, no nurse sharks, few stingrays, and it was off-season for manta and whaleshark), but there's still a lot to see, I even had a once in a lifetime dive with 80+ dolphins(that I could count!) for 35+ minutes, just holding on to the reef in heavy current and watching them swim/dive/frollick around. Mind you these are spinner dolphins, not bottlenose, they're usually very shy. I was also lucky with a lot of other rare sights, such as an electric ray, sea hares(weird!), a slipper lobster, a suzanne's flatworm, a leaf fish, a fully grown stars & stripes pufferfish, multiple long octopus encounters(including a mimic once), and much more.

There's a lot of micro stuff to find in the reefs too, especially at night, one dive I counted 6 species of crab and 5 species of shrimp.

PS: I saw manta, whale sharks(snorkling only), nurse sharks, plenty of stingrays(at least 5-6 species*), etc, when I was on the liveaboard cruise, and a total of 6 species of shark* overall.
*I can name leopard ray, blackspotted stingray, whiptailed stingray, feathertail, and jenkins' whipray.
** white-tip reefshar, black-tip reefshark, grey reefshark, nurse shark, leopard shark and whaleshark.