Join Fins Attached and the Manta Trust on this epic adventure to the Maldives.

This expedition will focus on the south of the Maldives renowned for its pelagic marine life, stunning reefs, and channels.

Tentartive itinerary and highlights:

This expedition will focus on the south of the Maldives renowned for its pelagic marine life, stunning reefs, and channels. A few highlights are:

- Fuvahmulah: this little island is known as the "Galapagos of the Indian ocean" because of its pelagic megafauna including guaranteed encounters with tiger sharks and potential sightings of oceanic mantas, thresher sharks, hammerheads, silvertips, whale sharks to name a few.

- Channel diving: many of the atolls we will be visiting have stunning channel diving where we will encounter schooling grey sharks (sometimes in schools of 20-30 or more), white tip reef sharks, schooling eagle rays, jackfishes, Napoleon wrasses, and much more. Channels concentrate marine life and are the highlight of this region.

- Manta diving: we will be diving at least 3 different manta cleaning stations scattered along the way as well as the potential encounter with the oceanics in Fuvahmulah.

- Night feeding whale sharks: we will be putting floodlights behind the boat at two sites waiting for whale sharks to come feed on the plankton that gets concentrated (an incredible experience!).

- Stunning soft coral diving in Vaavu atoll

Overall, we will see 10 different species of sharks, both species of manta rays, green and hawksbill turtles, and stunning reefs.

-Day 1: Addu - embarkation

-Day 2: Addu - check dive and manta dives

-Day 3: Fuvahmulah - mantas, tiger sharks, thresher, hammerheads, grey reefs, visit to the island

-Day 4: Fuvahmulah - as above

-Day 5: South Huvadhoo - channel diving, turtles, eagle rays, sharks, beautiful reefs

-Day 6: North Huvadhoo - channel diving, turtles, eagle rays, sharks, night feeding whale sharks, possibility to visit a deserted island

-Day 7: Laamu - mantas, channel diving

-Day 8: Thaa - channel diving, sharks, night feeding whale sharks, possibility to visit a deserted island

-Day 9: South Meemu - mantas, possibility to visit a local island

-Day 10: North Meemu - channel diving, sharks, soft corals

-Day 11: East Vaavu - channel diving, hammerheads, sharks, soft corals

-Day 12: Vaavu - sharks, night dive with nurse sharks

-Day 13: South Male - channel diving, soft corals, sharks, possibility to visit a local island

-Day 14: South Male - Male - last dives including Hulhumale harbour sharks and rays dive and visit to Male

-Day 15: Male – disembarkation

Inclusions:

- Accommodation in twin or double cabin with a/c and ensuite bathroom

- 3 meals per day, afternoon snacks

- Airport to vessel return transfers

- Free Nitrox

- Unlimited drinking water, tea, American coffee

- 2-3 guided dives/snorkel per day, depending on itinerary

- Tanks, weights

- Dive guides’ service

- Covid-19 insurance

- GST Tax included at 16%

The following is NOT included in the price of the expedition:

- International flight to and from point of embarkation/disembarkation

- Domestic flight Male-Addu (USD $200)

- Tiger shark dive fee (USD $30)

- Fuvahmulah port fee (USD $25)

- Dive gear

- Alcoholic and soft drinks

- Diving Courses

- Ayurveda & Wellness treatments (if available)

- Dinner on the beach, weather permitting (USD 10, to be paid on board)

- Green tax of USD 6/day/person, if not mentioned on the invoice

- Crew Service Charge (USD $130/week per person)

- Cancellation insurance

- All personal expenses on board or during visit on local island or resort

- GST Tax/ or Green Tax adjustment

- Fuel surcharge: in case the crude oil price exceeds USD 0.60 per Liter

- All what is not specified in “Inclusions”

Point of embarkation: Gan (Addu Atoll) - Date of embarkation: 30th March 2025

Time of embarkation: flexible depending on guests’ arrival. We will arrange 2 or 3 transfers from Addu airport to the vessel based on everyone’s arrival times.

Note: guests will need to arrive in Male no later than 6pm to catch the last domestic flight to Addu on the 30th March. Ideally guests should arrive in Male in the morning to be able to catch the morning or early afternoon domestic flight to Addu. If guests want to arrive in the Maldives a day or more earlier, they will need to arrange their own stay (we can help with recommendations) and if they want to fly to Addu earlier than the 24th and stay at a guesthouse/resort before the expedition they will also need to arrange their own domestic flight (which can be done through their hosting guesthouse/resort).

Point of disembarkation: Male

Date of disembarkation: 13th April 2025

Time of disembarkation: no later than 8:30am but earlier for those departing on early morning flights. For those departing in the afternoon/evening there is the possibility to drop the luggage at the airport and take a taxi to visit Male or Hulhumale, wait at the airport or book a day use hotel room near the airport (~USD $70pp).

 CANCELLATION POLICY
From 12 months to 9 months before departure date: penalty of 35% of the total amount.
From 9 to 6 months before departure: penalty of 50% of the total amount.
Less than 6 months before departure: penalty of 100% of the total amount