SS166 DIVE SITE ATOLL NOTES
01-Oct-06 Sunday    
  Guests arrive at airport N. Male Transfer to Sea Spirit
  Check in to Sea Spirit N. Male Boat breifings
dive 1 Back Faru N. Male Green turtles; honeycomb morays (one free swimming); white tip; mantis shrimp; leaf fish; juv. oriental sweetlips; lobster
â Himmafushi N. Male  
02-Oct-06 Monday    
dive 1 Lankan Finolhu N. Male Mantastic! 20+ mantas, up to 12 on the cleaning station at once; 8 mobula rays in tight formation; white tips; turtle
dive 2 Kuda Haa N. Male White tips; octopus; lobster; sexy shrimp; long nose hawk fish; 200+ blue fin jacks and long nose emperor hunting; napoleons
dive 3 Rasdhoo Madivaru Rasdhoo 2 eagle rays; silvertip shark; white tips; turtle; napoleons; 200+ big eye jacks; shrimp- P. lysmata;  100+ small spotted darts
â Rasdhoo   Rasdhoo  
03-Oct-06 Tuesday    
dive 1 Rasdhoo Madivaru Rasdhoo Sting ray; white tips; eagle ray; 20 chevron barracuda; great barracuda; comet; tuna; 1000+ fringelip mullet
dive 2 Gangehi Kandu Ari 5 leopard sharks! 2 black spotted stingrays; gold spot trevally; white tips; 100+ schooling greencheek parrot fish; schooling paddletail snapper
dive 3 Maaya Thila (Night) Ari White tips; Erasmus hunting; grey reef shark; morays out; black spotted stingrays feeding; saron shrimp; stonefish. 
  Maayafushi Ari  
04-Oct-06 Wednesday    
dive 1 Maaya Thila   Ari 7 grey reefs and 5 white tips squabbling over breakfast; Erasmus; black spotted ray feeding; batfish; 2 eagle rays; 500+ chevron and yellowtail barracuda; tuna hunting
dive 2 Fish Head Ari White tip; napoleons; turtles; mantis shrimp; schooling blue lined snappers; giant trevallys and red snapper hunting among 1000s of fusiliers
dive 3 Ellaidhoo Wall Ari 10 Mobula rays flying in formation; 2 marbled stingrays climbing the wall; nudi - Chromodoris geometrica; napoleon; monster moray being cleaned by Anton bruneii shrimp
  Ellaidhoo Resort Ari Cocktails on the island of Ellaidhoo
â Maaga Ari  
05-Oct-06 Thursday    
dive 1 Orimas Thila Ari Grey reef shark; white tip; mantis shrimp; sexy shrimp; comet; long nose hawk fish; marbled sting ray; juv. Oriental sweetlips; nudi -  P. iantina
dive 2 Vaagali S. Male Lots of white tips; napoleons; pleurobranch - Barthella martensi;  white warty frogfish and orange Commersons frog fish; 50+ batfish
dive 3 Cocoa Corner S. Male A wall of grey reef sharks and many white tips; turtle; napoleon; juv. oriental sweetlips
â Guraidhoo S. Male  
06-Oct-06 Friday    
dive 1 Heart Giri S. Male Juv. Yellow box fish;50+ blue fin trevally hunting silversides clown frog fish; juv. oriental sweetlips;
dive 2 Lankan Finolhu N. Male Mantabatics! 7 mantas cleaning, flirting and doing their thing for 45mins; octopus; turtle; juv. emperor angelfish
dive 3 Occaboli Thila N. Male White tip; juv. oriental sweetlips;  schooling blue lined snapper and bannerfish; 6 nudis- Noumea varians;long nose hawkfish; napoleon being cleaned; flatworm - unidentified! Fab corals
â Himmafushi N. Male  
07-Oct-06 Saturday    
dive 1 Leisure N. Male Snorkeling in the lagoon
dive 2 Passage to Male N. Male No diving due to Flying
dive 3 Male N. Male Visit to the capital  for shopping and ice creams
  Guests to airport    
Total Number of Dives 16