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Meet Harish – our Sheena Captain

Blog Sheena/Filitheyo - 08.03.2019 Here is our MY Sheena Captain, Sir Harish! Harish has been working as a Captain in the Maldives for over 20 years now. He is the lucky father of two pretty girls… And MY Sheena is his third child. He knows [...]

two newcomers!

Blog Filitheyo - 08.03.2019 They are two, they are new, they are here for you! Meet Manuela and Wade our two new colleagues on Filitheyo! Women first of course: Manuela is our new Edelweiss from the capital city of Switzerland, Bern. She is one of [...]

Diving honeymoon

Blog Filitheyo - 01.03.2019 Mickey and Mel just got married and came to our paradise island to enjoy some great diving during their honeymoon! They brought their wedding costumes with them and wanted to have a group picture with our awesome team! A lovely and [...]

Double new delivery

Blog Filitheyo - 22.02.2019 They are back! Bene and Mika have come back from their (diving, what else?) holidays at the beginning of February and will be pleased to welcome you at the dive base. During their vacation they went to the Philippines and to [...]

Mika on Tour

Blog Filitheyo - 21.02.2019 Mika and Béné are back from their holidays and have taken over the base again. Last week Mika was allowed to join the MY Sheena tour in order to get to know the procedure, because the base management Filitheyo is responsible [...]

A Bridewhale – one of the reasons to join our checkdive…

Blog Filitheyo - 01.02.2019 “That boat is pretty close to our reef … Wait - Is it submerging ? OH MY GOD !”. These thoughts were going through the mind of our instructor, as a BRIDEWHALE was passing him and his group of divers. The [...]

Exhibition Boot 2019

Day 9 WE MADE IT! We are finished, have packed everything up again, the stand builder is probably still having fun with the stand and we are all on our way home or have already arrived. BOOT 2019 is over, but not our exhibition specials. [...]

Tauchen Award 2019

Blog Filitheyo - 25.01.2019 The Filitheyo DiveCenter won the TAUCHEN AWARD in the categorie "best diving centre maldives. A big thank you to ALL who supported us in this competition! We are more than happy and are looking forward to awesome dives with you! We [...]

A changeable fish – the clownfish

Blog Filitheyo - 07.01.2019 There are plenty of fish around the Maldives, but almost no one is as famous as the clownfish. Despite its popularity divers tend to know very little about the small reef inhabitant. They live together in groups up to 15 fish [...]

IN A NEW LIGHT

Blog Filitheyo - 22.12.2018 We have never seen our underwater world like this! Explore the reef corals and their inhabitants in our Fluo-Night Dive. For example this is stony coral (Acropora Cytherea) normally appears to be more orange-brown, but as soon as we shine on it with our Fluo-Torches, [...]

The BOOT-show in Düsseldorf

Preparations for the boat show are in full swing. Offers are fixed, flyers are in progress and the team at the fair is also on standby! Besides Werner, Lilly and Florian Lau, Steffi, Bernd, Barbara, Sylvia and Peter will be there for you. Save the [...]

A sponge with mouth ???

Blog Filitheyo - 04.12.2018 Yes, our divers were quiet surprised, when they saw a huge sponge with a pair of eyes and a mouth looking right at them. It takes a lot of luck to uncover such a big, black frogfish. This corral-like fish hides [...]

CURIOUS !!!

Blog Filitheyo - 29.11.2018 The silvertip shark is more common in the open ocean or in breathtaking depths over 800 meters below the surface. But we still encounter them during our dives – mostly at the edges of our reefs or sometimes even on top [...]

an insight to our diving instructor crew

Blog Filitheyo - 16.11.2018 The hammerhead-shark on the left: Dennis - the best man for your course and always in for a joke. The gray shark on the left: Lucas - would love to spend all of his time below the surface or showing some [...]

The decision has been made…. Desk Calendar Competition 2019

Our table calendar campaign was also this year a great success. Again, we received so many great pictures and the selection this year was extremely difficult for us. During the competition we received a total of 550 photos. Unfortunately, we can only add 12 of [...]

Manta Surprise

Blog Filitheyo – 09.10.2018 So many time I heard divers saying that safety stops are boring… Well not always and you can be sure that Christoph and Conny will not say it during a long time! Two reef mantas (Manta alfredi) came and visited us. […]

Rarely seen here

Blog Filitheyo - 01.10.2018 Isn't it lovely? We found this cutie on Little Channel South. It is called Tapestry shrimp, was about 7cm long and we very rarely see it here (the books say that it is endemic from Myanmar)! Thanks to Uwe for the [...]

Explorer Dive

Blog Filitheyo - 25.09.2018 Today we went exploring a channel where no one from the team  or from the guests has been before! That is very exciting! We went to Bileyidhoo Kandu a channel located in the south east of the atoll. The channel is [...]

Interdive 2018

Done! 4 days fair are over. We thank you all for the nice time and look forward to the boat in January. Boat Düsseldorf - 19 - 27 January 2019 in hall 3     Day 3 and 4 There was a lot going on [...]

Don’t disturb Ariel

Blog Filitheyo - 19.09.2018 Just wanted to make a pic of Ariel while he was servicing the regulators… Note to myself for later: don’t disturb patagonians wenn they are dealing with mechanics!!!

Underwater photography

Blog Filitheyo - 14.09.2018 What are our dive instructors doing on their days off? Underwater photography! Big up to Béné for sharing her pics with us!!!

Diving on Fili house reef…

Blog Filitheyo - 07.09.2018 We have one of the best house reefs of the Maldives… And it is just 40m away from your bungalow door!!!! That’s insane! Just a pity that we couldn’t get pictures of the very special ones we saw last week on [...]

Blue light at the housereef

Blog Filitheyo - 31.08.2018 Discover another world at night... Corals look totally different with blue light... Join us at the only nightclub of the island... under the surface another world is awaiting you! Photo credit: Chris Sleap

our new instructors

Filitheyo - 22.08.2018 Hello, I'm Claudia, 36 years old and from Germany. Having good coffee makes me very happy, no wonder after living one year in Colombia. In addition to German and English, I also speak Spanish with Colombian-Argentine accent. Instructor: SSI / SDI Hello, [...]

new Season – new Team

Blog Filitheyo - 15.08.2018 New Season, new Team auf Filitheyo! From the top left: Béné, base leader then Lucas the playboy, Florian the german Sheena guide. Bottom left: Mika, base leader, Tappa the Sherpa and compressor boy, on his shoulders Claudia who can do everything, [...]