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Bathala Update

Update Bathala 21.05.2019 As expected, the opening is delayed again and rumours are circulating on the island that the new opening date will be 28/29 May 2019. Our estimate of an opening at the beginning of June 2019 is still realistic for us. Werner Lau [...]

Biiiig marbled stingray

Blog Filitheyo - 16.05.2019 A very curious and massive marbled stingray kept turning around us at Lighthouse Channel! An amazing dive with loads of sharks and some medium incoming current… Credit: Sijmon de Waal

A little glimpse behind the scenes

Blog Hondafushi - 16.05.2019 Where do you live? This question we get to hear quite often. Therefore we would like to give you a little insight into our home. 😊 All the employees of Hondaafushi have their rooms in the interior of the island. There [...]

MY Sheena Logbook 21. – 27.04.2019

7 Day Tour – Filitheyo – Filitheyo On this trip, we have thirteen guests on board. Six persons are from Switzerland, four from Israel, two from France and one from Germany. More than enough to make new friends! For three of them, it is not [...]

Equipment Room and Workshop

Blog Bathala - 13.05.2019 The equipment room is finished and our workshop is equipped. The compressor room is about to be finished and then the divers can come...stay tuned ... and this is our local team, who is hard working even during Ramadan from left [...]

Island style…

Blog Filitheyo - 12.05.2019 Hermit crabs use all they can find and suit them to protect their soft body… ALL.

Our Sheena Crew … or how do produce a new staff picture

The announcement: "Boys, we would like to do a new staff picture for the website, get ready!" caused a lot of excitement. Everyone had a shower, new clean Werner Lau T-Shirts were taken out. Everybody ran excitedly in a mess - everybody looked at his [...]

Bathala visit

Blog Bathala - 07.05.2019 Werner and Lilly visited us on Bathala to get a picture of the current situation. It will still take a little while with the opening but it will be awesome... stay tuned

Ramadan Mubarak

Tomorrow Ramadan starts. That’s the fasting month for all Muslims.   It is also a time of spiritual reflection, improvement and increased devotion and worship. Fasting is one of the 5 Pillars of the Islam. The other 4 are: Daily prayer, statement of faith, give [...]

Island Life

Blog Filitheyo - 04.05.2019 Meet Ali the Heron! He is one of the permanent inhabitants of the island and he has a very good taste for choosing his home… and hunting playground! You will always find him on the beach, and he is always ready [...]

Stop Over on Medhufushi

Blog Medhufushi - 04.05.2019 Also Medhu was on Werner's and Lilly's schedule before Bathala. So they were on all our islands and on the Sheena for at least shortly. Come back again soon :)

Farewell MY Sheena

Blog MY Sheena - 02.05.2019 Werner and Lilly are currently on to the Maldives and took the opportunity to travel from Filitheyo to Medhufushi with the MY Sheena. This way they avoided the transfer via Male and spent a few days on the Sheena instead.

Handycraft Maxims Style

Blog Bathala - 02.05.2019 Of course, there is also a lot to be built for the dive equipment. Now also the mask and snorkel racks are ready - Maxim style ...stay tuned

MY Sheena Logbook 07. – 14.04.2019

7 Tage Tour – Filitheyo - Filitheyo 13 guests arrive during the day. For some guests the diving luggage unfortunately arrived late in the afternoon. Nevertheless our guides Florian and Sinan did the first dive with some guests on the day of arrival. The atmosphere [...]

Our base will be established

Blog Bathala - 26.04.2019 Not quite ready yet but the first divers could come... theoretically...stay tuned

Nice Visitors

Blog Hondaafushi - 25.04.2019 It is always nice when Lilly & Werner come to visit us. Since the 80s they have been more or less at home in the Maldives and you can certainly speak of two diving legends. We are delighted to benefit from [...]

underwater impressions

Bathala Blog - 24.04.2019 A check at the house reef showed that it is completely intact except for a few small sections despite the construction measures. The western side is very beautiful, hard and soft corals, sponges etc. are all healthy. Also the north side, [...]

The Werner Lau Table Calendar Campaign is back!

For some years now we have been designing our annual desk calendar with your pictures. Over the past few years we have received so many beautiful pictures of you. So overwhelming was the response that we decided to organize another competition this year. Check all [...]

Catamaran trip

Blog Medhufushi - 22.04.2019 It´s that time of year when south west monsoon hits the shores of Maldives and brings also a bit more wind. This is a good time for all kinds of wind sports. After some time, we put our catamaran back in [...]

unser neues Office ..

Blog Bathala - 22.04.2019 The office is furnished for the time being and the first guest requests are already answered. Sanding and varnishing is of course also part of this... stay tuned

Greet the new amazing Filitheyo Team!

Blog Filitheyo - 20.04.2019 They are young, they are fresh, they are experienced, they love to help, they are funny, they know their job and they are beautiful! Bottom right to left: Bene, Manu, Tobi, Ramjan, Harun Rear right to left: Flo, Lucas, Mika, Wade [...]

Tobi & Maxim

Blog Bathala - 20.04.2019 Maxim & Tobi are, just like Tofail, busy building the dive center. Slowly but surely it will ...

We slowly gonna start …

Blog Bathala - 18.04.2019 Alrighty, we are on Bathala starting to set up the dive center. We already have tanks, a first dive at the famous Bathala Thila and we were not disappointed. Grey reef sharks, eagle rays, barracudas and "Fritzi", a handball-sized pink frogfish.... [...]

Supply Dhoni für Bathala

Blog Filitheyo - 17.04.2019 The whole stock of Bathala was stored here on Filitheyo. Now there's plenty of space again, because finally things are starting to happen ... today our Supply Dhoni left for Bathala with all the equipment and Tobi on board. Yeah!!!

New Beginning

Blog Hondaafushi - 17.04.2019 Saying Good Bye to Maxim and Tofail today was not easy. But they are on a mission. They are going to Bathala to prepare the Dive Center for the upcoming reopening. We will miss you like hell but we are not [...]