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Blue Ocean Diving is delighted to be able to offer adventure seekers and manta lovers this incredible trip of a lifetime on a Maldives Liveaboard.

Join us on board the M/Y Blue Voyager where you will be an active part of the Manta Ray Expedition, seeking out and diving in the Maldives with the largest population of manta rays recorded anywhere in the world!

Our adventure begins at the Huvadhoo Atoll where we travel across the Equator to the isolated atoll of Fuvahmulah (also known as Foammulah) before heading to the southern-most atoll of Addu.

A domestic flight will then take us to the very far south of the Maldives – an area described as “the new Maldives”. We will then settle onto our luxurious Maldives Liveaboard and prepare to dive!

Here is where you have the opportunity to dive in the Maldives with schooling sharks, vast schools of fish and squadrons of eagle rays. The spectular hard coral reefs are packed with the most incredible colour and fantastic critters. And as if that is not enough you’ll be at the heart of the manta points too!

This Maldives Liveaboard offers exciting diving for experienced divers with adventure in mind.

Divers must be PADI Advanced Open Water or equivalent, have a minimum of 50 logged dives and experience in diving in currents. We also strongly recommend Nitrox and Deep specialties in order to get the most out of your manta experience.

Dates:

1st – 11th March 2023

Price:

From £2549 per person plus flights

The Location:

The Maldivian Archipelago lies south west of Sri Lanka and India with a chain of 26 atolls.

Located on a vast submarine mountain range in the Indian Ocean known as the Chagos–Laccadive Ridge, together with the Chagos Archipelago and Lakshadweep the Maldives forms a terrestrial ecoregion spanning an average of 90,000 square kilometres. 

The 26 double chained atolls are made up of 1,192 islands and with maximum and average ground levels of only 2.4 metres, it is the lowest country in the world.

Diving in the Maldives is comfortable and perfect for warm water divers. The Maldives has a tropical monsoon climate and its low elevation means that it is constantly hot and often quite humid. The average temperature in March is a warm and lovely 31°C, thank you very much indeed!

If you need any more excuses to dive in the Maldives, we can provide them!

Diving in the Maldives will find you amidst the spectacular coral reefs which are home to 1,100 species of fish, 5 species of sea turtle and 21 species of whale and dolphin.

But the major attraction in this luxury destination is the opportunity to dive with the huge population of reef manta rays, the largest recorded anywhere in the world.

Reef manta rays are typically 3 metres in disc width with some reaching approximately 5 metres and may live to at last 50 years old!

For more information on these beautiful and fascinating creatures, click over to The Manta Trust, who we will be on board with for what will undoubtedly be a fantastic, educational and terrifically memorable trip of a lifetime.