SS180 DIVE SITE ATOLL NOTES
18-Feb-07 Sunday   SDS Watersports trip
dive 1 Guests arrive at airport N. Male Transfer to Sea Spirit
dive 2 Check in to Sea Spirit N. Male Boat and dive breifings
dive 3 Nenge Faru N. Male Napoleon; turtle; schooling batfish; spearing mantis shrimp; maldives sponge snails; scorpionfish; spawning sea cucumbers
â Himmafushi N. Male  
19-Feb-07 Monday    
dive 1 Occaboli Thila N. Male Dog tooth tuna; schooling bannerfish; eagle ray; mantis shrimp; octopus; schooling sweetlips and blue lined snapper; beautiful reef; bit of a current!
dive 2 Bodu Hithi Thila N. Male 6 mantas; lots of white tips sharks; napoleon; flatworm - Pseudoceros orsaki; lobster; hidden sea whip shrimp; schooling paddletail and blue lined snapper; schooling sweetlips
dive 3 Maaya Thila (Night) Ari Grey reef shark; many white tip sharks hunting and a couple even catching dinner; sleepy turtles; morays foraging; octopus; stone fish; saron shrimp
â Maayafushi Ari 1 manta feeding at the surface off the port side of Sea Spirit
20-Feb-07 Tuesday    
dive 1 Maaya Thila Ari 3 big and several smaller grey reef sharks hunting fusiliers- plenty of action! couple of white tips; 200-300 yellowtail barracuda; shcooling bannerfish and batfish; stonefish
dive 2 Donkalo Ridge Ari MANTASTIC! 30+ mantas cleaning and flirting - up to 12 in view at any one time; honeycomb moray; shrimp; ribbon eel
dive 3 Fesdu wreck and reef Ari Lots of big job fish; octopus; mantis shrimp; pretty wreck
â Fesdu   Ari  
21-Feb-07 Wednesday    
dive 1 Donkalo Ridge Ari MANTASTIC! Countless mantas - 19 counted seen at one time hovering over the group. 45 minutes of classic Sea Spirit joy!! "Worth the cost of the trip for that dive alone"
dive 2 Fish Head Ari Friendly napoleons; schooling batfish, bengal and blue lined snapper; mantis shrimp; stone fish
dive 3 Kandholhudhoo Thila Ari 2 eagle rays; 2 Commerson's frog fish; 15 chevron barracuda; marbled sting rays; 100+ barred trevally; mantis shrimp; white tips
â Maaga Ari Ashore to Ellaidhoo resort for cocktail
22-Feb-07 Thursday    
dive 1 Vaagali S. Male Baby turtle; 15+ great barracuda;  gorgeous frogfish;  napoleon; white tip;  clown shrimps - P. brevicapalis; nudi - Thuridilla bayeri
dive 2 Guraidhoo Corner S. Male SWOT level 4!! 3 big grey reefs and loads of white tips hanging on the corner; the rest was a speed blur!
dive 3 Heart Giri (Night) S. Male 3 Voigtmans reef lobsters; flatworms - Pseudoceros sp and P. Susanae; banded pipefish; giant moray being cleaned; plumed, banded, ghost and anton bruneii shrimps
â Guraidhoo S. Male  
23-Feb-07 Friday    
dive 1 Cocoa Corner S. Male Lots of white tips and a big mobula ray on the corner; great barracuda; turtle; honeycomb morays; BS ray; bannerfish
dive 2 Heart Giri S. Male White tip; red knuckle mantis shrimp; batfish; juv yellow boxfish; octopus; Schultz's and reeftop pipefish
dive 3 Biyadhoo S. Male Palette sugeonfish; juv emeror angelfish; painted reef lobstyer; schooling blue lined and paddletail snapper; reef top pipefish
â Guraidhoo S. Male Visit to local island for shopping and a wander around
24-Feb-07 Saturday    
dive 1 Kuda Giri - wreck S. Male 2 juv. oriental sweetlips; sexy shrimp; dogtooth tuna; octopus being harrassed by orange lined trigger fish; Schultz's pipefish
dive 2 Leisure N. Male Passage to Male
dive 3 Male N. Male Visit to the capital for shopping and ice creams
  Airport N. Male Guests departure to airport
Total Number of Dives 17