Search "Maldives"
ContentEquipmentPhotosGlossaryMembers
Hanifaru Bay - Maldives Manta Madness
SPECIAL FEATURES
Hanifaru Bay in the Maldives has been quietly becoming a hot spot for underwater photographers over the last year or so. Thomas Peschak recently shot an assignment for National Geographic on the...
Maldives Ministry Bans Reef Shark Fishing
NEWS
The ministry of fisheries and agriculture has extended the moratorium on reef shark fishing to cover the whole of the Maldives, as part of a historic move towards a total ban on both reef and...
Maldive's Dirty Secret
NEWS
The paradise of 1,200 islands located in the Indian Ocean is now the planet's largest island of Garbage
Global warming threatening islands
NEWS
The President of the Maldives on Wednesday called for urgent global action against climate change, saying rising sea levels are threatening the survival of his country's low-lying islands....
Bali To Host UW Photo Exhibitions In A Bid To Save Reefs
NEWS
Bali's first ever underwater photography exhibition will open in June 2007 in a bid to show the public the beauty of coral reef ecosystems, and raise awareness about the importance of coral reef...
Canon WP-DC7 Review From The Maldives
NEWS
Today's dive has been planned for the Ari-Atol in the Maldives. During our briefing we were warned that the currents were strong. Everyone prepared themselves for what was to come. I had chosen...
Canon IXUS Underwater Case Review
NEWS
Today's dive has been planned for the Ari-Atol in the Maldives. During our briefing we were warned that the currents were strong. Everyone prepared themselves for what was to come. I had chosen...
Research To Rescue The Reefs
NEWS
A new project by a Southern Cross University researcher to re-seed damaged coral reefs in the Maldives has important implications for the recovery of coral reefs around the world.
One of...
Maldives Live Aboard Destroyed In Fire
NEWS
A safari boat in Kaafu atoll Gulhee harbour caught fire and was completely destroyed last Monday night. The safari boat, Giulia, was operated by Ocean Adventures under an exclusive bed right...
Sea May Swallow Maldives If Warming Unchecked
NEWS
His Indian Ocean island cluster is a magnet for Hollywood stars such as Tom Cruise, but the Maldives may disappear within generations unless world leaders urgently combat climate change, President...
Olympus PT-E02 Reviewed In The Maldives
NEWS
Whale shark, whale shark..." cried the crew. We are on a diving safari in the Maldives in search of the big boys. Today this happens to be whale sharks. Earlier on this trip we had dived among...
Restoring Clean Water In The Maldives
NEWS
It's tough to imagine having water problems on an island located in the middle of the Indian Ocean, but that is exactly what thousands of people in the Maldives are facing.
The archipelago,...
Scuba Divers Aim To Break Maldives Record At Quarry
NEWS
In a small island nation in the heart of the Indian Ocean, a world record was set this year that Portage Quarry owner Jeff Rice hopes to break.
On Feb. 25, 979 scuba divers submerged off the...
XRay #11 Available For Download
NEWS
Patagonia, Argentina. El Hierro, the Canary Islands, Coral Bleaching and Global Warming. Crossing the Atlantic on a research vessel. The Conveyor Belt, the oceans global circulation. Building reefs...
Maldives To Get Indian Help For Setting Up Marine National Park
NEWS
India would help Maldives in establishing a Marine National Park similar to the one in Jamnagar, Gujarat.
The assurnace was given to visiting Maldives Minister Ahmed Abdullah by Minister of State...
Dive In The Maldives And Get A Guinness World Record Certificate
NEWS
Do nothing more than just take a plunge into the warm, pristine blue waters that is Maldives and be rewarded with a Guinness World Record Certificate...
Police Probe Diver's Death
NEWS
Police are investigating the diving death of a professional scuba instructor on Thanksgiving Day off Hallandale Beach.
Zak Jones, 30, who was diving with six colleagues from Fort Lauderdale's...
Maldives Resort To Attempt A World Diving Record
NEWS
Maldives Tourism Promotion Board together with Dhiraagu Maldives is to attempt a new world record for greatest number of scuba divers simultaneously diving on a single site.
The targeted number...
New Digital Camera From SeaLife Singled Out By TIME Magazine
NEWS
SEALIFE'S NEW DC500 DIGITAL CAMERA Selected by Time Magazine as one of "The Most Amazing Inventions Of 2005"
Maldivian Divers Concerned About Extinction Of Local Sharks
NEWS
Diving instructors are complaining that the over-fishing of sharks has led to a serious reduction in their numbers, which is having a detrimental impact on tourism.
Speaking to Minivan Radio...
The World's First All-glass Undersea Restaurant Opens
NEWS
15 April marks the day that the first ever all-glass undersea restaurant in the world opens its doors for business at the Hilton Maldives Resort & Spa. Ithaa* will sit five meters below the...
Diving & Resort Travel Expo 2010
EVENTS
DRT SHOW 2010 will be held on the 16th-18th July 2010. DRT SHOW is International Diving, Beach Resort and Travel Expo. DRT SHOW is very much an effective diving and traveling event to both trade...
Sponsors
