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School of Mobulas on Filitheyo Housereef

Guests who make it out of bed early are often rewarded here on Filitheyo. Mobulas are spotted regularly on early morning dives. This is in addition to the usual encounters with larger marine life such as napoleons, giant trevallies, whitetip, blacktip and grey reef sharks, [...]

Happy New Year!

It´s been an adventure. We have a lot of beautiful memories, looking back at 2021 and many more exiting times to come. We wish you all the best, let it be prosperous, full of joy,  magical moments and filled with happy bubbles. Happy New Year!

A new Day

Blog Description:  After a week’s of stormy weather we finally had a beautiful sunrise… Which followed with the next amazing days of beautiful diving and weather… @ Medhufushi Island Resort

Newly Certified Divers

Congratulations on becoming Open Water Divers Marc,Verena and Florian. We had fun teaching you… and hope to see you soon in Medhufushi again.. @ Medhufushi Island Resort

Hello Nurse Shark

In the past few weeks this young nurse shark has been stationed in the same spot sleeping again. She glances at us to see what we are upto and then goes back to sleep... @Mantas & More

Hawkbill Turtle

A beautifully shot monochrome photograph. This peaceful visitor greets us every time we visit our dive site - Picasso

Halaveli wreck

The wreck was sunk by the dive school operating on Halaveli, back in 1991. It lies a mile NW of Halaveli island. The ship was once used as a cargo vessel, transporting goods from island to island. Wreck divers will love this dive site, as [...]

Welcome Iqbal!

The latest member of our compressor team on Filitheyo is also the youngest one. Young and strong! Iqbal is from Bangladesh and worked with a different department on our island before joining the dive center team. We are super happy to have him onboard and […]

Welcome Beat and Desiree

We are the Swiss team at Werner Lau Filitheyo. :) We are both 33 years old and used to live in Switzerland until a few years ago. Beat used to work in hospitality as the manager of a bar and as a diving instructor in [...]

Happy Birthday Gleb

We pleased to take you diving and give you an experience to remember, A 10th Birthday to remember … We hope to see you soon diving with us again..

Housereef Companion

Housereef Companion (Vlaming´s Unicorn - lat. Naso Vlamingii) Here I´m presenting you our housereef companion. This peticullar Vlaming´s Unicorn you will deffinetly see on our housee reef. You can recogize it by it´s tail – lower part is missing. It is always around divers, playing [...]

Housereef maintenance

Our housereef requires attendance every now and then. The ropes need cleaning, the supporting canisters a refill of air, but even a full refurbishing is not uncommon. Here are Dani & Miro placing a new orientation number of entry/exit in the northwest, our #1, the [...]

Triger fish

Blog Bathala - 16.07.2021 40 species of triggerfish are scattered throughout the world’s seas. These bottom dwellers dig out prey, such as crabs and worms, by flapping away debris with their fins and sandblasting with water squirted from their mouths. They also use very tough [...]

Dive Full of Marbeled Stingrays

It was a nice calm morning with Detlef and Doris, headed for a check dive. They´ve been here before and they were looking forward to go on a housereef - expecialy to dive the section between Exit 6 and 7. The current was in our [...]

Glass Fish

Blog Bathala - 09.07.2021 Glassfishes are found in shallow waters up to 10m deep, usually hidden among the reef. They feed on crustaceans, worms and other invertebrates. In turn, they fall prey to larger fish such as snappers, groupers, jackfish, lionfish. They are a schooling [...]

Resort Diving

Blog Medhufushi - 07.07.2021 One small step for us, One giant leap for yourself” This is where the experience starts. We welcome more divers to visit our beautiful underwater world…

Lion fish

Blog Bathala - 02.07.2021 Although the lionfish is visibly gorgeous, there's much more to this mysterious creature than its striking maroon, brown and white stripes, elegant fan-like fins and delicate floating tentacles. Native to the Indo-pacific region, the fish can be found on reefs as [...]

Servicing Time

Blog Medhufushi - 30.06.2021 We have finally reached the time of the year where we service all our equipment so that our divers have wonderful experience while diving. Servicing equipment is very important and its needs to be done annually irrespective you might dive with [...]

Welcome Markus

Blog Filitheyo - 24.06.2021 We got new reinforcments in the end of May. Markus is 37 years old (21 by heart) , vibrant, very communicative instructor, full of energy. He flew in from Macao, where he  worked as a show Diver at the biggest Water [...]

Nudis

Filitheyo - 18.06.2021 Chromodoris Tritos Yonow - also known as Dorid Nudibranch, Tritos Sea Slug. Opisthobranchia - Nudibranchs - Sea Slugs meaning "naked gills" are molluscs without a hard shell. These beautiful slugs are usually brilliantly colored and this in itself can act as a [...]

Horse Eye Jacks

Blog Medufushi - 17.06.2021 Horse Eye Jacks also known as Big -Eye Jacks (Caranx Latus)  is a game fish and minor cHorse Eye Jacks also known as Big -Eye Jacks (Caranx Latus) is a game fish and minor commercial fish in the family Carangidae. Its appearance is similar [...]

The Orange Horizon

Blog Medhufushi - 10.06.2021 As the sun sets over the horizon the sky lights up in a beautiful dark orange colour which makes it look like the sky is on fire... @ Medhufushi Dive Centre (Sunset)

World Ocean Day

Blog Filitheyo - 08.06.2021 We celebrate this day to light the importance of oceans. As divers we withness the impact that our way of living has on the oceans. It is important to raise awarnes and contribute as much as we can, even when it [...]

Ocean day

Blog Bathala - 08.06.2021 Ghost nets are a problem for the marine environment, as they float free until they get stuck onto a reef, in which case they suffocate the corals and fish trapped underneath. This one was so heavy that three of us were [...]

Congratulation!

Blog Bathala - 03.06.2021 Diving keeps you young, ask Mrs. Ursula, 73 years old and her husband, Mr. Rolf, 86 years old from Switzerland 🙃 We are honored to have done Rolf's 2000th dive at Mayaa Thila. Congratulation, truly amazing 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻