Maldives and Sri Lanka

[Midas]

I’m heading to Sri Lanka and Maldives in June and would love some recommendations. Ideally a two or three day livaboard would be ideal but I cannot seem to find one. Also is there anything in season then we should not miss out on? Any help would be appreciated.
I’m a rescue diver and my partner is open water and happy to get his advanced at the same time.

 

[Kahuna.]

Diving in Colombo (Mt Lavinia, Island Divers) is surprisingly good. I even got to snorkel with a juvenile whale shark once on my birthday on the way out to a dive site.

I didn’t make it to the east coast so can’t comment on that.

Maldives I just dove with the resort out of Kuda Huraa but had a great time. Lots of mantas.

Please take into account last time I was there diving was 10yrs ago.

EDITED: Sorry I had the wrong shop name.

 

[j0rd1]

Hi,

Sri Lanka has two clear diving seasons:

From October-November to April, you can dive in the West coast. Colombo has mostly wrecks at around 25m-32m and you can dive with Island Scuba (nitrox available). I've been diving with them regularly during the 2024-25 season. Now they have moved to the East Coast.

From May to October, you can dive in the East coast. More reef type of diving, but from what I heard, nothing spectacular. You also have an amazing wreck HMS Hermes, but it's a tech dive (52m).

Since you're going in June, I think is better you just dive in Maldives, unless you're planning to go to the East coast for some site seing.

I hope it helps!

 

[ROUS]

You might reach out to Scuba Divine Maldives and see what they can put together for you. I dived with them recently and definitely recommend.