North Male Atoll (North Kaafu) scuba dive sites in The Central (Baa, Lhaviyani, North & South Male, Alifu Alifu, Alifu Dhaalu, Vaavu Atolls)

The best known, explored and the richest diving regions of the Maldives. There also lay some of the finest shipwrecks of the Maldives.

One of the best-known diving sites is the Lankan Manta Point – a cleaning station where besides large numbers of manta rays divers can also spot sweetlips, Napoleon wrasse, turtles, moray eels, fusiliers and coral gardens.
Underwater photographers will appreciate the Banana reef. In this area fishes are very much used to having divers around, therefore are not afraid of a close encounter with cameras and divers. The slope starts at around 5 meters and goes down to 30 meters providing a great variety of capturing different aquatic life.
There’s also a large cargo ship (Maldives Victory Wreck). The ship sunk in 1981 and now is a home to colorful fishes. As the ship is blocking the current, divers can explore ins and outs of it easily. However, for security reasons, the wreck of the Victory is officially listed in the advanced dive sites of the Atoll.
Another highlight is the Kuda Haa pinnacle (Thila). Around the pinnacle are an abundance of marine life – flatworms, corals, nudibranchs, anemones and other reef fishes and macro life.
Divers can enjoy their dives year-round, however, currents pick up from November onwards which bring color, great visibility and pelagic fish life, including manta rays and reef sharks, to the channels and pinnacles.

The conditions in 38 North Male Atoll (North Kaafu) divesites you can expect to be - average depth from 5m to 37m, water temperature 28℃ to 30℃, air temperature 28℃ to 32℃, expected current 1 to 4 knots.

These North Male Atoll (North Kaafu) dive sites are reef, drift, wall, cave, nightdive, snorkeling, wreck.

In these divesites you will be able to encounter and see Fishes, Shark, Animals, Corals, Ray, Turtle, Manta Ray, Grouper, Wrasse, Eagle Ray, Stingray, Porcupinefish, Octopus, Whale, Jellyfish, Snapper, Lionfish, Barracuda, Tuna, Lobster, Pipefish, Triggerfish, Pufferfish.