8 spot(s)
8 nights
18 March, 2028 - 26 March, 2028
3.600 $ per person
Tiger Shark Island 🦈 Fuvahmulah rises alone out of the deep Indian Ocean, and big animals come close to shore. At Tiger Zoo the chances to dive with tiger sharks are very good on almost every dive, and thresher sharks are easier to spot from March to April. With luck, oceanic mantas, whale sharks or schooling hammerheads pass by. Sightings are nature and never guaranteed.
Tiger Blue & Tiger Wall 🌊 We dive with Fuvahmulah Dive School, the team that pioneered diving on the island. Besides Tiger Zoo you dive Tiger Wall, where tigers move up and down along the wall under the harbour, and when conditions allow Tiger Blue, a dive under the boat in the open blue. Plateau Farikede and the thresher shark cleaning stations complete a week full of sharks.
Two Bonus Day Trips 🚤 One day goes offshore in search of oceanic whitetip sharks. Another takes you to a neighbouring atoll, Huvadhoo or Addu, depending on weather and sea conditions. A rare combination in one week, with Tim as your trip leader.
Fuvahmulah sits alone in the southern Maldives, a single island facing open ocean, and that is exactly why the big animals come. Tiger sharks are here every day of the year, often several on one dive, joined by thresher sharks at dawn, oceanic mantas, silky and grey reef sharks, and in season hammerheads, whale sharks and the odd mola mola. The currents are strong and the water is blue in every direction, so this is diving for people who want encounters, not coral gardens.
Diving here is land based, which keeps things simple. The harbour is minutes from where you stay, boat rides are short, and you are often back on shore between dives. No liveaboard routine, no long crossings, just open water a few minutes out and some of the most reliable shark encounters anywhere.
Above water Fuvahmulah is a real local island rather than a resort, with freshwater lakes, wetlands, wild beaches and a pace of life that has barely changed. It is quiet, unpolished and very much itself. The luxury here is not in the surroundings. It is in time spent face to face with tiger sharks, and in coming home with dives you will be describing for years.
8
3.600 $
Half board (breakfast and lunch)
18 March 2028
26 March 2028
Home for the week is Ocean Pearl, a boutique hotel in the heart of Fuvahmulah, with island view rooms and private balconies just minutes from the harbour where the tigers hang out. After a day with the sharks you can unwind at the infinity pool or up on the rooftop terrace before dinner together at Raskuri Restaurant.
The diving is run by Fuvahmulah Dive School, the team that pioneered diving on the island in 2017 and found many of its dive sites and cleaning stations. Besides Tiger Zoo, the plateau at the harbour entrance, you dive Tiger Wall, a deeper dive under the harbour area where tigers move up and down along the wall, and, when conditions allow, Tiger Blue, a dive under the boat in the open blue. Plateau Farikede is the most famous site after Tiger Zoo: when conditions are right it brings hammerheads, thresher sharks, tiger sharks, silvertip and grey reef sharks, whale sharks and oceanic mantas. There are about ten wall reef dives with special macro life, and thresher shark cleaning stations where on some days up to 15 sharks show up during a dive.
The week includes an offshore trip in search of oceanic whitetip sharks and a day trip to a neighbouring atoll, Huvadhoo or Addu, depending on weather and sea conditions. You stay at Ocean Pearl Fuvahmulah in island view rooms with a pool, on half board. Sightings are nature and never guaranteed, and the daily plan always follows the conditions.
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Tim has almost a decade experience in the diving industry, first active within Behind the Mask for video productions, and later as a trip leader and product manager for Behind the Mask Travel. Tim has a legal background, and switched careers to be 200% committed to the ocean.
