| Every resort in the Maldives caters for scuba divers and international certificates of all types are accepted.
The dive schools are well equipped, and regulators, BCDs, computers, masks, snorkels and fins are available for hire. For those learning to dive resorts offer a variety of dive courses are conducted in several languages, with courses conducted in English, German, Italian, French and Japanese in most of the resorts.
For those learning to dive all resorts conduct open water and advanced courses such as night diving, rescue diving, underwater photography.
Courses such as naturalist and shark specialist courses have proved most popular due to the growing interest in the marine environment.
At resorts, diving is conducted daily all year around and it is only rarely that diving has to be cancelled.
Most resorts would have access to a protected reef on the leeward side of the island that enables them to dive even during times of rough seas and strong winds. |
