!!! Dear friends, colleagues, employees, customers, and partners, !!!

We are closing our dive schools on Filitheyo and Medhufushi effective November 17, 2025.
Lilly and I received on September 17 a notice from our island partner operators, AAA, that they will not renew our contracts and that we must vacate the dive schools on November 17. Our offers to extend the deadline to the end of April to ensure a smooth handover were ignored.
We know that AAA asked our staff whether they would work directly for AAA. The island operators wanted to run the dive schools themselves. Our staff unanimously declined. Furthermore, we were asked by AAA if we would sell our equipment to AAA at a favorable price. We declined this as well.

From this, one can conclude that neither staff nor equipment will be available on the islands after November 16. We have no further information on how diving will proceed on Filitheyo and Medhufushi.
Thus, our paths with AAA, with whom we have worked for 37 years—26 years on Filitheyo and 25 years on Medhufushi—diverge.

I thank all customers, organizers, and staff for their loyalty.
We will continue to operate our great dive school on Bathala, and we are also present at the dive school on Canareef, operated jointly with Diverland.

Lilly und Werner Lau

Welcome to Filitheyo

With a length of 900m and a width of 500m, Filitheyo is not a very small Maldivian island. Filitheyo is located at the Eastern outer reef of North Nilandhe Atoll and the only touristic island in this atoll. Due to Filitheyo’s solitary position you can expect untouched dive sites offering a great diversity of corals and big fishes.

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You can dive on the North as well as on the South side of the house reef and one can safely say that it is spectacular. On the North side it drops down to a depth of 90m. In 2009 and 2011 we have sunk 2 wrecks on the house reef to offer even more diversity for our divers. Divers of all experience levels can dive on both wrecks. Daily trips to the surrounding dive sites also guarantee a great deal of diversification. A lot of big fishes await our divers in the channels!