SS136 DIVE SITE ATOLL NOTES
21-Nov-05 Monday    
dive 1 Lankan Finolhu N. Male Mantastic! 20-30 mantas, up to 14 at once, cleaning and buzzing around for an hour; 1000+ convict surgeon fish; napoleons; lobsters; turtle
â Himmafushi N. Male  
22-Nov-05 Tuesday    
dive 1 Lankan Finolhu N. Male Manta Parade!  10 mantas repeatedly visiting the station for cleaning; white tips; napoleons; lobsters; anemone crabs; giant morays; turtles
dive 2 Hans Hass Place N. Male Napoleon; schooliing snapper; giant morays; banded cleaner shrimp; longnose hawkfish; Periclimines soror
dive 3 Maaya Thila ( Night) Ari  Giant moray and red snapper grabbing dinner; white tips;bumping around; Barry scaring the hell out of everyone; sleeping turtles; black spotted ray nuzzling around
â Maayafushi Ari   
23-Nov-05 Wednesday    
dive 1 Maaya Thila  Ari  Grey reef shark; eagle ray; white tips; 300+ yellowtail barracuda; schooling batfish and big eye jacks; tuna; stone fish
dive 2 Ellaidhoo Wall Ari  Black spotted ray; octopus; schooling blue line snapper; shrimp in anemone - P. brevicarparlis; longnose hak fish; blue fin trevally.
dive 3 Orimas Thila Ari  Grey reef;  loads of white tips; zebra moray; Pseudoceros susanii and Pseudobiceros gloriosus; mantis shrimp
Evening Ellaidhoo Resort Ari  Ashore for a couple of cocktails and to meet the sting rays
â Maaga Ari   
24-Nov-05 Thursday    
dive 1 Fish Head Ari  Millions of fish! eagle ray; black spotted ray; giant trevally; white tip; juvenile emperor angel fish; Ptereolidia ianthina; Chromodoris geometrica
dive 2 Guraidhoo Corner S. Male 8-12 grey reef sharks; white tips; black spotted ray; 2 leaf fish; 100+ schooling chevron barracuda; giant spearing mantis shrimp; porcelain crabs; schooling banner fish.
dive 3 Heart Thila S. Male Octopus; lobster; juv. Oriental sweetlips; comet fish; maldives sponge snails; bearded scorpionfish; mantis shrimp
â Guraidhoo  S. Male  
25-Nov-05 Friday    
dive 1 Kandooma Caves S. Male White tip; green and hawksbill turtles; honeycomb moray; lobster; napoleons; porcelain; batfish; schools of one spot + paddletail snapper
dive 2 Kuda Giri S. Male Pipefish; large tunas; nudi - Phidiana sp. sea spiders; flatworm - P. susanii; napoleon; batfish.
dive 3 Nassimo Thila N. Male 2 leaf fish; huge great barracuda; black spotted ray; massive lobster; turtle; napoleons; beautiful soft corals. 
â Himmafushi N. Male  
26-Nov-05 Saturday    
dive 1 Lankan Finolhu N. Male More manta acrobatics: 25+ with up to 13 together, going at it for 70 minutes
dive 2 HP Reef N. Male 5 eagle rays; leaf fish; turtle; white-tip; BS ray; schools of jacks and snapper
dive 3 Occaboli N. Male Beautiful dive full of colour
â Himmafushi N. Male  
27-Nov-05 Sunday    
dive 1 Furana N. Male Manta cleaning for 10 minutes; 3 eagle rays; BS rays; white-tips; paddletail snapper - hooter!
â Hulule Male N. Male Shopping and ice-creams!
28-Nov-05 Monday    
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