News

Welcome Irish and Peter

Filitheyo,  10.11.2022,  At the beginning of October, we welcomed new members of our Filitheyo team. Irish and Peter are a German-Filipino couple, who met 10 years ago in the Philippines. They are pursuing their dreams and their passion for diving and are not new to [...]

Batfish

Filitheyo, 20.10.2022  A frequently seen guest at our house reef. They can be found in the Red Sea and the Indo-Pacific region, preferably they stay in depths between 15 to 30 meters. Yesterday, when we explored our house reef with a guest and the scooter, [...]

School of Mobulas on Filitheyo Housereef

Guests who make it out of bed early are often rewarded here on Filitheyo. Mobulas are spotted regularly on early morning dives. This is in addition to the usual encounters with larger marine life such as napoleons, giant trevallies, whitetip, blacktip and grey reef sharks, [...]

Happy New Year!

It´s been an adventure. We have a lot of beautiful memories, looking back at 2021 and many more exiting times to come. We wish you all the best, let it be prosperous, full of joy,  magical moments and filled with happy bubbles. Happy New Year!

Welcome Iqbal!

The latest member of our compressor team on Filitheyo is also the youngest one. Young and strong! Iqbal is from Bangladesh and worked with a different department on our island before joining the dive center team. We are super happy to have him onboard and […]

Welcome Beat and Desiree

We are the Swiss team at Werner Lau Filitheyo. :) We are both 33 years old and used to live in Switzerland until a few years ago. Beat used to work in hospitality as the manager of a bar and as a diving instructor in [...]

Housereef Companion

Housereef Companion (Vlaming´s Unicorn - lat. Naso Vlamingii) Here I´m presenting you our housereef companion. This peticullar Vlaming´s Unicorn you will deffinetly see on our housee reef. You can recogize it by it´s tail – lower part is missing. It is always around divers, playing [...]

Dive Full of Marbeled Stingrays

It was a nice calm morning with Detlef and Doris, headed for a check dive. They´ve been here before and they were looking forward to go on a housereef - expecialy to dive the section between Exit 6 and 7. The current was in our [...]

Welcome Markus

Blog Filitheyo - 24.06.2021 We got new reinforcments in the end of May. Markus is 37 years old (21 by heart) , vibrant, very communicative instructor, full of energy. He flew in from Macao, where he  worked as a show Diver at the biggest Water [...]

Nudis

Filitheyo - 18.06.2021 Chromodoris Tritos Yonow - also known as Dorid Nudibranch, Tritos Sea Slug. Opisthobranchia - Nudibranchs - Sea Slugs meaning "naked gills" are molluscs without a hard shell. These beautiful slugs are usually brilliantly colored and this in itself can act as a [...]

World Ocean Day

Blog Filitheyo - 08.06.2021 We celebrate this day to light the importance of oceans. As divers we withness the impact that our way of living has on the oceans. It is important to raise awarnes and contribute as much as we can, even when it [...]

Work on the house reef

Filitheyo - 21.05.2021 On Filitheyo we have really nice house reef, with a lot of sea life and healthy corals. There are 7 exits for our divers to enter and exit house reef. Our instructors are regularly maintaining the ropes and other markers, that help [...]

Great Barracudas

Blog Filitheyo - 14.05.2021 Barracudas - the  voracious predators that hunt by ambush. They rely on surprise and short bursts of speed (up to 43 km/h) to overrun their prey, sacrificing maneuverability. Generally, adult barracudas are considered to be solitary when it comes to hunting, though young barracudas tend [...]

The danish guys …

Blog Filitheyo - 30.04.2021 Here are our Filitheyo team updates. We have reinforced our lines with a new instructor – Jens. He comes from Denmark, but he lived in Germany for the most of his life. Now Tore and Jens can have their secret conversations [...]

Turtle City

Blog Filitheyo - 28.02.2021 She cruises along our house reef everyday greeting everyone who comes along. With one breath she stayes for 30mins down a total champion free diver. Our House Reef – Haksbill Turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata)

Old is Gold

Filitheyo - 22.02.2021 After years of being away he is back and we knew one day he would come back…. Our former Sheena Guide Tore is back in the company and back on the Maldives. Welcome on Filitheyo Tore!

keep on smiling

Blog Filitheyo - 29.01.2021 Sometimes he smiles. Sometimes he is serious. But he is our friend.. We see him rarely but when he makes a appearance it is one to remember. Our Lemon Shark on Filitheyo House Reef (Cruising in the Shallows)

Sharktastic!

Filitheyo - 23.01.2021 With the New Year and new beginning a full boat of excited divers eagerly await what beholds down there.. A treasure some call it. For us in Filitheyo it makes our eyes shine. SHARKS!!! SHARKS !!! SHARKS!!!

Maldives Update 18.11.2020

The resorts and thus our dive centres will be reopened in December! Opening dates: Bathala: 01. December 2020 exclusively for Qatar Holidays and from 21. December 2020 for all guests Filitheyo and Medhufushi: December 01, 2020 The entry to the Maldives seems to be possible [...]

See you soon on Filitheyo!

Filitheyo - 25.07.2020 Good bye Filitheyo! Good bye Harun and Ramzan. In 2 month, once the island is re-opened, we hopefully see each other again! We are ready to fly! Europa, we are coming home!

new signs

Filitheyo - 15.07.2020 New signs for the entries/exits on the house reef are ready! Just need to take the kayaks out and go screw them in... Hope it will not be too difficult!

Green Team

Filitheyo - 10.07.2020 The green team finished the white garden! Was a lot of work, sweat, fun, laughs, cuts, wounds, blisters creativity, inventiveness and education for all 3 of us! Just one of the areas we have been creating to make the island look even [...]

new hot spot

Filitheyo - 07.07.2020 This is the new spot to make our certification pictures! Good job Béné for the drawing!

News from Werner Lau

Werner Lau - 03.06.2020 Short update on how things might be developing ... In the meantime, most of our destinations have already considered opening their borders and have published first, provisional plans. The Maldives want to open their borders again on 01 July 2020. Contrary [...]

Our wrecks at the house reef

Blog Filitheyo - 31.05.2020 Two local wrecks we are able to show you. First our KM Agro Mina II, a small Maldivian fishing boat, which is already since November 2009 part of the house reef. The second one is the Koimas I. This one is [...]