Sun Diving Olhuveli
2005 South Male Atoll
MDV
Sun Siyam Diving is conveniently located at the end of the jetty, with easy access to our own house reef. The SSI Diamond Instructor Training Center is fully equipped to serve even the most professional diver with a multilingual instructors team .
Sun Siyam Diving School is a locally registered subsidiary under the Sun Group of Companies. The company was created for the purpose of providing safe, professional and exciting diving to the dive enthusiasts around the world.
Swim along to discover the shy giant moray eel, the elegant lionfish, the camouflaged stone fish and the clever octopus among other amazing species in the prolific house reef. If you're lucky, you may encounter a green sea turtle, adult reef shark, humphead Napoleon wrasse or get up close with the majestic manta ray. Uncover the mysteries of the hidden caves, overhangs, and sunken ships on your quest.
Sun Siyam Diving School is conveniently located at the end of the jetty, with easy access to our own house reef. The SSI Diamond Instructor Training Center is fully equipped to serve even the most professional diver with a multilingual team of experienced and friendly instructors who will guide you through the many courses available. For more information on exploring the best diving spots in the Maldives.
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★★★★☆ Kuda Giri Wreck
The Kuda Giri is a very pretty, very well-established giri (pinnacle) with lots of small caves and overhangs, this giri is also covered with beautiful hard corals on the east side.
★★★★☆ Guraidhoo Corner
One of the interesting attractions during the east monsoon, this site offers a wide variety of big fish life. The entire channel is a marine protected area. Depending on the strength of the current, be well prepared for several downstream currents and some washing machines when drifting to the inside channel.
★★★★☆ Kandooma Caves
Nice channel dive with many overhangs in around 20 meters depth. One of the overhangs at 20 meters has an opening at the ceiling with a window at 10 meters. Torch highly recommended. Many turtles seen here!
★★★★★ Gulhi Dhigu Thila
Dhigu Thila lies in the pass between the local island of Gulhi & the resort of Anantara. A quite long thila, it boasts majestic sea fans, beautiful soft & hard corals, and a dense & thriving fish life. Marble sting rays, eagle rays, grey reef sharks, occasional manta rays, and good macro is what you can expect here.
★★★★☆ Lhosfushi Kuda Kandu
Kuda Kandu means small channel and is located north of Guraidhoo channel, it has a very shallow sandy bottom at 12 meters deep and 10 meters wide. It offers colonies of stony and soft corals which give good hide away spots to blue stripe yellow snappers.
★★★★★ Cocoa Corner
Cocoa corner can be dived both with incoming and outgoing current. Incoming is generally considered the best, with loads of grey reef sharks patrolling the blue at the entry of the pass.With outgoing current, a couple of detached coral blocks makes an interesting dive, with nurse sharks, grey reefs and stingrays
★★★★☆ Vaggiri
Vaggiri is a great dive site for every diver, especially those who love to see small life and have longer dives. There are overhangs, small caves and swim throughs. The formation of this giri is very unique and a perfect place to try out deep dives for the first time.
★★★★☆ Banana Reef / Manta Point
This dive site is well known as a Manta Ray Cleaning and feeding zone from April to beginning of November and some times into mid-December. This is one of the best places to dive with these giant rays within this part of the Atoll.
★★★★☆ Cocoa Corner
Your best dive at Cocoa Corner will be when the northeast incoming ocean current hits this Atoll, which then only requires you a minimal fin kick to cruise along. This can be a long drift or a short drift dive. Make sure you do not miss the corner. An ideal spot for a early morning dive to see hammerhead sharks.
★★★★☆ Olhuveli House Reef
The dive school located at the end of the main jetty offers access to the house reef, giving you easy excess to the seamless drop-off for diving and snorkeling. One of the best house reef resorts in the Maldives. Night feeding manta rays are here almost every night.
★★★★☆ Lhohi Faru Thila
Huge schools of yellow back and neon fusiliers swarm around the thila together with schools of trevally and barracuda are also around, ready to hunt and feast on the smaller fish.
★★★★☆ Napoleon Reef
This dive site is named Napoleon Reef for good reason. This site is covered in large Napoleon wrasses. This is a good drift dive for all levels of diver. Many times divers have also encountered whale sharks and mobula rays here as well.
★★★★☆ Rannalhi House Reef
This is a very good dive site for all kinds of divers, starting with a gentle slope in the sandy bottom and then moving on to the reef which is quite widespread, with a maximum depth of 17 meters. Since its also a nursery for juveniles, some trevallys coming in to feed.
★★★★☆ Kandoo Kan
With a slow incoming current Kandoo Kan is a great site of beginner divers to observe plenty of big fish life close to the reef. This is one of the best dive sites to encounter huge green sea turtles.
★★★★☆ Magu 2
When the current starts coming in from the west side of the atoll, you better not miss this spectacular dive site! It is a pinnacle a thila but very large with a shallow top reef. This dive site has one of the best fish life combinations from very tiny to very large.
Opening Hours
| Monday | 08:30 - 13:00 14:00 - 17:30 |
| Tuesday | 08:30 - 13:00 14:00 - 17:30 |
| Wednesday | 08:30 - 13:00 14:00 - 17:30 |
| Thursday | 08:30 - 13:00 14:00 - 17:30 |
| Friday | 08:30 - 13:00 14:00 - 17:30 |
| Saturday | 08:30 - 13:00 14:00 - 17:30 |
| Sunday | 08:30 - 13:00 14:00 - 17:30 |
Opening Hours
| Monday | 08:30 - 13:00 14:00 - 17:30 |
| Tuesday | 08:30 - 13:00 14:00 - 17:30 |
| Wednesday | 08:30 - 13:00 14:00 - 17:30 |
| Thursday | 08:30 - 13:00 14:00 - 17:30 |
| Friday | 08:30 - 13:00 14:00 - 17:30 |
| Saturday | 08:30 - 13:00 14:00 - 17:30 |
| Sunday | 08:30 - 13:00 14:00 - 17:30 |