Dive Review of Addu Dive/Wavesound 3S Guest House in
Maldives/Addu Atoll

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Addu Dive/Wavesound 3S Guest House: "A great new Maldivian adventure", Oct, 2022, by Jan Topley, Bristol, GB ( Reviewer 3 reports with 1 Helpful vote). Report 12102 has 1 Helpful vote.
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Comments	I decided to try a new adventure for my 5th visit to the always reliable Maldives and booked Addu Atoll where about 10% of Maldivians live. It is near the Equator and has year round good diving conditions and warm water at 29 degrees C. As a Brit I was glad to discover that the British base in Gan in WW2 to the mid-70s had left the locals feeling quite pro-British. I dived with Addu Dive and Instructor Saalim and DM Maadhi were careful, helpful and delightfully companionable. They had 4 Maldivian DM students that week who were good company and as an elderly woman with a mild heart rhythm problem I was allowed to choose the dive sites to stay below 20m depth as instructed by my dive physician. We dived from a dhoni with excellent help from the 2 boat crew and I was waited on hand and foot by Suhail. Ginger tea between dives kept us deliciously warm. The reefs were healthy and reef fish fairly plentiful and we saw lots of green and hawksbill turtles, eagle rays, white tip sharks, octopus, sting rays and mantas. On my last day we did the WW2 British Loyalty tanker wreck, the largest wreck in the Maldives lying in 18 – 33m depth and the final glorious dive was at Manta Point. The incoming current brings the mantas to the cleaning station and when we divers arrived they came to us ( with manta whisperer Maadhi inviting them with hand gestures) and hovered just above us apparently to enjoy the sensation of our dive bubbles on their skin. So we had wonderful close up contact with them for 35 minutes. A white tip shark hung around apparently just enjoying the current at the same time. I stayed at Wavesound 3S, a comfortable 7 room sunset-facing Guest House on the beach with an attached restaurant which was used by the locals so felt nice and normal. Addu Dive and the guest house are sister companies. I travelled from London to Male on Qatar Air via Doha and the 1.5 hour flight from Male to Gan was arranged by the Guest House at a significantly reduced price which I think the Government prefers them to do. There is a direct flight from Colombo on Sri Lanka Airlines to Gan Island which might be quicker for half the world. I went in September / October in low season and there was rain some days which didn’t affect the diving. Most evenings the mosquitoes were kept at bay by the breeze. I have logged 460 dives and have dived in UAE, Oman, Seychelles, Maldives, Egypt, Jamaica, Grenada, St Martin, Cuba, Cayman, Belize, Raja Ampat, Bali, Vietnam, Thailand, Malawi, South Africa, Mozambique, Malta, St Kitts and UK
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	251-500 dives
Where else diving	Maldives, Lake Malawi, Egypt, Maui, Thailand, Tanzania, Cuba, Jamaica, Cayman, Tobago, Malta, South Africa, Seychelles, Oman, UAE, Belize, Bali, Raja Ampat, St Maarten, St Kitts, Cayman,
Closest Airport	Gan	Getting There	Fly to Gan from Male or Colombo
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny	Seas	calm, currents, no currents
Water Temp	29-29°C / 84-84°F	Wetsuit Thickness
Water Visibility	10-20 M / 33-66 Ft
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	None
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	N/A
What I Saw
Sharks	Lots	Mantas	Squadrons
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	> 2	Whales	None
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Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish
Large Pelagics
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter	N/A	Boat Facilities	N/A
Overall rating for UWP's	N/A	Shore Facilities	N/A
UW Photo Comments	[None]

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Dive Review of Addu Dive/Wavesound 3S Guest House in Maldives/Addu Atoll

Addu Dive/Wavesound 3S Guest House: "A great new Maldivian adventure", Oct, 2022,

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Dive Review of Addu Dive/Wavesound 3S Guest House in
Maldives/Addu Atoll