Dive Review of Manthiri in
Maldives/Southern Atolls

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Manthiri, Dec, 2009, by Janet Czapski , MI, US ( Contributor 14 reports with 2 Helpful votes). Report 5845 has 1 Helpful vote.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving	N/A
Snorkeling	N/A
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Comments	We did an extended 14 night Holiday trip over Christmas and New Years. We did the Southern Atolls and elected to only do 3 dives per day plus a night dive if anyone chose to do so. We saw fabulous walls, pinnacles, poor vis, great vis, no currents and ripping currents! We spent a fair amount of time in manta cleaning stations and saw huge schools of manta feeding at the surface almost every day! We had two whale sharks while diving and several popped up next to the Manthiri and anyone was welcome to jump in and snorkel with them! We also saw more Napoleon wrasse than anywhere else in the world. It's the "fishiest" place we've ever been diving. We had huge schools of snapper on every dive; nice schools of sweetlips; literally hundreds of red-lipped triggerfish on EVERY dive! We had several dives with beautiful soft corals and renamed one dive site "Pumpkin Patch" because of the pumpkin-colored giant anemones with the Maldivian anemonefish! We also saw more multiple eels in "holes" and free-swimming eels there on almost every dive. We're going back in September, 2012!
Websites	Manthiri
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	Over 1000 dives
Where else diving	Indonesia, Malaysia, PNG, Solomons, Fiji, Philippines, Caribbean, Australia
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, windy, rainy, cloudy, dry	Seas	calm, choppy, surge, currents, no currents
Water Temp	80-82°F / 27-28°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	50-100 Ft/ 15-30 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	No decompression diving
Liveaboard?	yes	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	Lots	Mantas	Squadrons
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	> 2
Turtles	> 2	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish
Large Pelagics
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities	N/A
UW Photo Comments	Camera room on the Manthiri is well situated with plenty of room for each individual's camera. Camera handling by the crew both on the "big" boat and on the dhoni was phenomenal.

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Dive Review of Manthiri in Maldives/Southern Atolls

Manthiri, Dec, 2009,

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Dive Review of Manthiri in
Maldives/Southern Atolls