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keep on smiling

Blog Filitheyo - 29.01.2021 Sometimes he smiles. Sometimes he is serious. But he is our friend.. We see him rarely but when he makes a appearance it is one to remember. Our Lemon Shark on Filitheyo House Reef (Cruising in the Shallows)

Bathala is opening from the 21st of February!!!

I had a conversation with the owner of Bathala Island Resort today. It has been decided that Bathala will be bookable again from Feb 21st for our customers from Europe and Switzerland. This perfectly fits into the Manta season. If we can get flights, Lilly [...]

Always good for a surprise …

Bathala - 25.01.2021 Treat yourself to some surprises. The reefs of the North Ari atoll hide many jewels, for example these two members of the cartilaginous class of fish. Do you like more the zebra shark we saw at Maaya thila, or the guitar fish [...]

Sharktastic!

Filitheyo - 23.01.2021 With the New Year and new beginning a full boat of excited divers eagerly await what beholds down there.. A treasure some call it. For us in Filitheyo it makes our eyes shine. SHARKS!!! SHARKS !!! SHARKS!!!

We are back!

Bathala  -14.01.2021 The Werner Lau dive team on Bathala is ready for 2021, enthusiastic and excited as ever. The reefs of the North Ari atoll are waiting for you, experienced divers and the less experienced ones, and the beginners as well. Everybody is welcome. Join [...]

Maldives Update 18.11.2020

The resorts and thus our dive centres will be reopened in December! Opening dates: Bathala: 01. December 2020 exclusively for Qatar Holidays and from 21. December 2020 for all guests Filitheyo and Medhufushi: December 01, 2020 The entry to the Maldives seems to be possible [...]

Sheena goes in Pension

Dear guests, dear partners, dear friends, For well over a decade our old lady, the Sheena, has been writing liveaboard history. We discovered previously unknown dive sites in the south of the Maldives and together with our crew we gave many guests countless amazing diving [...]

Miro & Dani

Bathala - 26.07.2020 Finaly! Time to go home for Dani and Miro. They leave until October and will be back once Bathala will be open again. See you soon in October on Bathala!

See you soon on Filitheyo!

Filitheyo - 25.07.2020 Good bye Filitheyo! Good bye Harun and Ramzan. In 2 month, once the island is re-opened, we hopefully see each other again! We are ready to fly! Europa, we are coming home!

new signs

Filitheyo - 15.07.2020 New signs for the entries/exits on the house reef are ready! Just need to take the kayaks out and go screw them in... Hope it will not be too difficult!

Green Team

Filitheyo - 10.07.2020 The green team finished the white garden! Was a lot of work, sweat, fun, laughs, cuts, wounds, blisters creativity, inventiveness and education for all 3 of us! Just one of the areas we have been creating to make the island look even [...]

new hot spot

Filitheyo - 07.07.2020 This is the new spot to make our certification pictures! Good job Béné for the drawing!

News from Werner Lau

Werner Lau - 03.06.2020 Short update on how things might be developing ... In the meantime, most of our destinations have already considered opening their borders and have published first, provisional plans. The Maldives want to open their borders again on 01 July 2020. Contrary [...]

Our wrecks at the house reef

Blog Filitheyo - 31.05.2020 Two local wrecks we are able to show you. First our KM Agro Mina II, a small Maldivian fishing boat, which is already since November 2009 part of the house reef. The second one is the Koimas I. This one is [...]

Werner Lau News

Werner Lau - 19.05.2020 Every day we receive several inquiries as to when diving with Werner Lau will be possible again. To say it in advance: Of course nobody knows exactly yet. Among other things we are waiting for the flight schedules of the airlines [...]

recently on Bathala …

Bathala - 14.05.2020 A staff diving day in Bathala! The island is well visited. All the staff from Thudufushi and Athuruga are there too and are waiting for the things to happen. Let's be positive about the future! In a few weeks we will know [...]

Maldives News

Maldives - 28.04.2020 Our crew on Filitheyo is sending you best regards. Everyone is doing well on Fili, diving at the house reef is still great, even if the monsoon change is starting now. Also from Bathala and Medhufushi there is nothing new to report. [...]

Comet fisch

Bog Filitheyo - 27.04.2020 Did you know ... Cometfishes use their fake eye at the back of their body for two purpuses at least? 1. to survive: when treatened they stick their face into a hole in the reef and the back looks like a [...]

Corona Update 26.04.2020

Well, of course all our hotels and diving centres are still closed. Like everyone else we are wondering, too: When will we resume? When will we be able to open where and what again? This will depend largely on when flight concepts will finally be [...]

At Home!

MY Sheena - 13.04.2020 Finally... After the quarantine in Hulemale the MY Sheena has finally arrived on the home island of our Captain Harish.

Maldives

Maldives - 08.04.2020 Small message from the Maldives: There are no more guests, but the remaining staff on Medhu, Bathala and Filitheyo is doing very well. There are certainly worse things than being an "island prisoner" and being able to avoid Corona..🙂... Anyway, we are [...]

Update 06.04.2020

First of all thank you very much from all of us for your good wishes and that you are thinking of us. In particular, I would like to thank our many repeat customers for their trust during the crisis. MALDIVES: Filitheyo and Medhufushi: Now there [...]

Maintenance Work in Filitheyo

Filitheyo - 02.04.2020  Hey lovely people! Only 4 divers and 7 guests left in total here on Fili! Now is time for maintenance, regulators and ropes from the house reef so that everything is perfectly ready for your next visit!

MY Sheena Logbook 08. – 15.03.2020

MY Sheena - 7 days tour from Fuvamulah Gaafu Alifu Atoll to Fuvamulah Best of the Best of the Maldives This time we pic up our guests straight from Fuvamulah Airport. There are 11 guest and everybody arrives on time. A big part of the [...]

Cleaning Day

Medhufushi - 22.03.2020 Sunday is cleaning day - so we went on a clean-up dive around the arrival jetty and were pretty successful taking garbage off the water. Every bit of plastic not being in the ocean saves lifes. 🐢🐙