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Our Wrecks on the house reef

Filitheyo - 20.09.2019 There are two wrecks on the Filitheyo House Reef. Located between Entry #5 and #6, these 2 former fishing boat are sitting on the sand since 2009 and 2011 at the foot of the house reef at 30m depth. They are home [...]

Honeymoon

Blog Medhu - 18.09.2019 Here is newly weed couple Jacqueline and Raymond.  They got married a month ago and for their honeymoon they choose Maldives. Raymond was planning the activities and since the Maldives are known as the exceptional place to dive, he figured they [...]

The big Boss on the red boat …

Filitheyo - 17.09.2019 Werner and Lilly were on Filitheyo in August. They never skip an occasion to dive! Even on that day when no guest wanted to do channel diving, Werner decided to go with the red boat and enjoy a quiet dive around a [...]

Our Fili Team

Blog Filitheyo - 13.09.2019 We are approaching the end of the low season (which was really beautiful!) and so as to start the new season with energy, our compressor boy Al Amin delivered a full trolley of colleagues, some new and some not so new [...]

A living jewel of the sea

Blog Medhufushi - 11.09.2019 Sailor's Eyeball  (Ventricaria ventricosa) ist also known as a Bubble Algae. This metallic looking ball is actually a green algae. We can can find it in all tropical and subtropical regions of the world. It can reach a size of 5 [...]

Rare encounter on the house reef

Blog Filitheyo - 10.09.2019 Mika was doing an underwater Photo Specialty with a repeater guest from Austria when he spotted something like a stick moving slowly on a sandy patch… What a discovery! A pygmy pipefish!!! This tiny individual is a cousin of the seahorse [...]

Ginger is waiting for you!

Blog Bathala - 10.09.2019 For everyone who is wondering if Ginger is still on Bathala: yes, he is 😊 He is looking forward to meet you in his new environment which he obviously likes a lot. Sleeping and eating are his favourite things to do. [...]

Come say “Hi“ to our resident Batfish found on our House reef

Blog Bathala - 06.09.2019 Fun fact: The Shaded Batfish plays a very important role in keeping the reef free of algae, eating far more algae on reefs damaged by over fishing than traditional algae-eaters such as parrotfish and surgeonfish.

Medhufushi team update

Medhufushi - 04.09.2019 Low season is the time when our staff is coming and leaving for holidays. We had to say goodbye to Ramzan, who returned back to his base in Filitheyo and was replacing Kafrul, when he was back in Bangladesh. Well Kafrul is [...]

The Beach

Filitheyo - 03.09.2019 Well yes… This is a problem… The sand is so white that you often wish you could go in the water with your sunglasses… Hard life, isn’t it???!!! 😊

MY Sheena Logbook 18. – 25.08.2019

7-Day Tour - Filitheyo to Male It's our fourth trip for the for Sheena this season. We are starting from Filitheyo (Faafu Atoll) and heading all the way towards Malé (Kaafu Atoll) During this trip we will be visiting the following atolls - Faafu Atoll, [...]

Welcome to Filitheyo’s nightclub …

Filitheyo - 29.08.2019 Tonight, no happy hour and however you are going to the nightclub. Meeting at the dive center at 6pm for a briefing and there we go to the house reef when the sun is setting down. One last glimpse at the breathtaking [...]

Lot to see …

Bathala - 29.08.2019 There is incredibly much to see in the channels around Bathala. The right current, a good jump and rock'n roll ... barracudas, eagle rays, grey reef sharks and much more - today was very successful!

Saying good-bye to the water sports centre

Hondaafushi - 28.08.2019 We say bye-bye to our water sports equipment on Hondaafushi. The last part of the equipment is loaded here. The equipment is in good hands...

we are on the island until 30.09.2019

Tim and Petra are our diving instructors at Hondaafushi. Of course they will continue the operation of our dive centre professionally and with pleasure until 30.09.2019  . Afterwards Tim will reinforce our team at Filitheyo and Petra is already looking forward to her new challenge [...]

Football tournament

Medhufushi - 27.08.2019 Let´s peek a bit in the staff area. On the island live and work around 150 people. Very important activity they do after work is sport. Usually the play volleyball, badminton or football. In these days the resort organized the annual MIR [...]

Werner Lau is closing his diving centre in Hondaafushi

Blog Hondaafushi - 26.08.2019 With the effect of 30. September 2019 we are closing our diving centre in Hondaafushi. The circumstances on the island do not allow us to offer the good service our divers are used to. The initial problems could not be resolved [...]

MY Sheena Logbook 11. – 18.08.2019

7-Day Trip - Male to Filitheyo It's another trip and our third for the Sheena this season. We are starting from Male (Kaafu Atoll) and heading all the way towards Filitheyo (Faafu Atoll). During this trip we will be visiting the following atolls - Kaafu [...]

Rescue Operation

Blog Hondaafushi - 25.08.2019 Wednesday morning a small, unfortunately injured pilot whale, was stranded to our bar. Our guests and staff helped to bring the Pilot Whale back into the water. He made it out of the lagoon Thanks everybody for your help.  

Werner and Lilly on a visit

Bathala - 25.08.2019 First Filitheyo than Bathala - finally Werner and Lilly spend some time on Bathala. We had a great time together and did some awesome dives with them. Thanks for visiting us. See you soon ...

Maintaining Traditional Look

Medhufushi - 25.08.2019 Medhufushi island resort is one of few resorts, that is still keeping the traditional roofs. It´s  covered with kajan – coconut palm leaves thach, which gives our resort more traditional look. Most of the resorts are changing to slade roofing, which is [...]

Our Hektor

Blog Filitheyo - 23.08.2019 Hector is an Emperor fish. You will meet him most of the time around the smaller wreck close to entry #6. He is really not shy and I bet he will let you make a portrait of him if you approach [...]

sometimes it’s the other way around

Blog Bathala - 23.08.2019 We know that sharks sometimes hunting birds. But the other way arount, hilarious this happend the other morning on the way to the boat ...

neuer Taucher

Blog Hondaafushi - 19.08.2019 Whooohooo .... Our Hondaa Team congrats Klaus-Dieter,as a new Open Water and Nirox Diver. Welcome to our family and we wish you always safe dives.

Miro und Dani

Blog Filitheyo - 16.08.2019 Welcome Miro and Dani! These very experience new colleagues joined us a few weeks ago. They both come from Serbia and luckily enough, there was too much space in their luggage, which allowed them to bring a lot of good mood [...]