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Compressor Boys and Béné

Filitheyo - 10.08.2018 These Nepalese are very strong, so strong that they don’t even mind carrying their tired colleagues! Just some fun after the dive….

The captain and the umbrella

Filitheyo - 03.08.2018 Driving in style - Coming from a small fisherman island in the Maldives doesn’t mean that you can’t drive your dhoni with style! Thumbs up to Captain Kuda Sobah for the nice colors! In matter of fact it was raining heavily for [...]

Amazing weather

Blog Filitheyo - 09.07.2018 Now is the time of the winter monsoon here on Filitheyo, but the weather conditions are just great! Warm and sunny, with a bit of wind though, which keeps the temperature bareable, a small shower rain at night so that the [...]

False killer whales

Blog Filitheyo - 04.07.2018 What an amazing surprise! We spotted (or maybe they spotted us!) a large pod of false killer whales on the way to Fish Pan! They were very friendly and swam along the boat for a long time. One of them had [...]

Answer to the riddle!

Blog Filitheyo - 27.06.2018 Here is the answer tot he Riddle from last week! Our Compressor Boys were just cleaning the tanks because we are doing the maintenance of the tanks! We disassemble them totally, look for corrosion, clean the inside, brush, lubricate, change the [...]

Chef Compressor Boys!

Blog Filitheyo - 18.06.2018 What’s going on here? Does anybody know what our Compressor boys are cooking? Answer next week on the next post, stay tuned!

Introduction dive Indian style!

Blog Filitheyo - 05.06.2018 When someone from the family has the courage to enter the water, the whole family comes and watches the Hero get ready! Go Mahesh, you can do it!!! Yeepeep! He was afraid of water and now he wants to keep on [...]

Maldives is not only about big fishes!

Blog Filitheyo - 01.06.2018 Today our guest Jeanine 19 y.o. went on the house reef with the firm idea to take some macro pictures. And she found 5 different types of shrimps and a sea slug. Her attention only got disturbed by some moray eels, [...]

Weird green Humanoids in Filitheyo!!!

Blog Filitheyo - 28.05.2018 Somehow crazy what Mother Nature offers us sometimes! This small funny thing is just an empty sea urchin shell where a colony of algae’s and tunicates have grown in the shape of two eyes. Was worth a picture!

Campaign table calendar 2019

Due to the enormous response last year, we have decided to add your underwater pictures again to the Werner Lau desk calendar for 2019. For this reason there will be a competition again this year and we are already looking forward to your pictures. If [...]

a few days ago ….

Blog Filitheyo - 24.05.2018 Sharktastik today at Filitheyo outside! Enjoy the pictures!

Our new captain

Blog Filitheyo - 16.05.2018 Welcome to our new captain: Mr Soba. Not the most talkative person but therefore always ready to smile and trustworthy. He was born in our atoll and knows the place like the back of his hand. The young man next to [...]

Strange visit at Filitheyo

Blog Filitheyo - 03.05.2018 We found this giant yellow duck on our beaches in the morning. It became in a few seconds the mascot of the dive center but unluckily disappeared as fast as it arrived in the afternoon… However, we had some great fun [...]

Team 2018 …

Blog Filitheyo - 16.04.2018 The monsoon change is starting slowly...for the occasion we present you our current Dive-Center Team! back, from left to right: Uttam from Nepal, the good soul of the diving school / Ved (Ranjeed) from India, has the beat in his head [...]

„All beginnings are difficult“

Blog Filitheyo - 24.03.2018 The life of a turtle might start off very romantic with the full moon but it is also a tough job. As soon as they hatch, they have to dig through a layer of sand (about 40 cm , which would [...]

Walhai !!!

Blog Filitheyo - 16.03.2018 An extremely rare but wonderful event for Filitheyo. We had 3 whalesharks sightings in the last 2 weeks. It started with Julie who had a whaleshark joining her and her check divers on the housereef for 20 minutes. Then one flew [...]

Our two new faces

Blog Filitheyo - 26.02.2018 After Kathi and Flo left for Hondafushi to manage the Diving Centre, Filitheyo has two new faces. Benedicte (Bene) and Michael (Mika) are a married couple from France. With them, being 35 and 40 years old, we got two experienced divers. [...]

Congratulation to 600 dives – with 80!

We always love to celebrate "round dives". We know how proud we were of our first hundreds dives. But the 600th of Thea (Therese) was a special one - a combination of 600 dives and 80 years, which was restaged in a very nice way [...]

Mantas, Mantas, Mantas…

07.02.2018 A picture is worth a thousand words,  so enjoy ... Many thanks to Katja, Ciro and Stefan for pictures and videos!!!

TAUCHEN Award Evening

Yesterday evening the diving award was given for the 20th time. As so many times before, it was a successful event with many well-known faces of the diving industry. Diving Centers Werner Lau were this year represented in 3 categories: - with Filitheyo we were [...]

half-time …

Day 5 on the boat - we made the half and it was really, really good. We had so many nice guests at the booth and our products are so successful. We are impressed. If it stays that way until the end of the fair, [...]

reunion and jubilees

23.01.2018 Since end of December you could think that we have a permanent family meeting: So many „It is so nice to see you here again“, so many hugging – this is how our work makes fun. And when we can add this with Scooter [...]

Bali fair specials and great flight deals with Singapore Airlines

Good morning from Messe Düsseldorf - Day 2 just started and the hall is slowly filling up. Yesterday we already had a lot of inquiries for our hotels in Bali and today it goes on like that. In line with our trade fair special of [...]

Same procedure as every year…

Saturday, 20.01.2018 - may the games begin. The doors to Boot Show in Düsseldorf opened on time at 10:00 a. m. and hall 3 was almost full. A great start for the first boat weekend. We have started with the whole fair team today - [...]

MY Sheena Tour – KW 52 – 24. – 30.12.2017

Sunday, 24.12.2017 Barracuda kandu Check dive with a medium incoming current was with clear visibility like 20 meters to see. There were many white tip reef sharks, sting ray, bat fishes, a turtle and plenty of other reef fishes to see.  Sunday, 25.12.2017 Filitheyo outside [...]