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Merry Christmas

The Medhufushi team wishes you all a wonderful Christmas time. 

Hammerheadshark on the „red boat“

A big surprise for our guests on the dive site „One way Ticket“ as a hammerhead shark come close by. The picture is a snapshop from our guests Thomas and Claudia. Thank you. At the right time at the right place.  

The swarm

13.12.17 Everybody has its favourite dive spot. Ours is definitely Mantas & More. Even in times when the Mantas are not around. The dive site offers an immense fish amount. Schools of fishes everywhere. Sometimes we even can’t see our buddy anymore behind all those [...]

Bienvenu / Benvenuto Caroline & Gabriele

11.12.2017 At least our "autum-couple" is here: Caroline from Belgium, our bundle of energy, will welcome you in English, Dutch, German and French. Also for Caroline the dive teacher existence is the second career - before she was in the fashion business. This is obviously [...]

The thing with the huge wings

01.12.17 What was that thing with those huge wings? To answer such question really hurts a bit. But how should somebody, who is doing his very first dive, know, that he just saw one of the most amazing animals. We are super happy to have [...]

Update Hondhaafushi – 01.12.2017

The announced opening date for Hondaafushi has passed now, but AAA did not inform us about any new opening date. Our dive centre managers and diving instructors have been on "standby" at Filitheyo for weeks now. There are indications for a possible opening on January [...]

MY Sheena Tour – KW 47 – 19. – 25.11.2017

Tour KW 47Sunday, 19.11.2017 Dolphins Corner The guests arrived all in the morning. Afte the welcome-breefing we get ready for the check dive. Strong incomming current is pushing us along the ouside reef into the channel. Eagle Rays, Whitetips and a lot of fish escorting [...]

Medhufushi Team

24.11.2017 Sometimes we dive instructor lead the life of a vagabond. So it’s hardly surprising that a team is changing from time to time. But we know how nice it is to come across some familiar faces. So we want to shortly introduce our team. [...]

MY Sheena Tour – KW 46 – 12. – 18.11.2017

Tour KW 46Sunday, 12.11.2017 Filitheyo Thila All our guests arrived right in time. After all the paperwok is done we drive to the MY Sheena for our welcome-cocktail and the welcome-breefing. After that we set up our gear and get ready fort he check dive. [...]

Welcome Mateja

18.11.2017 Practice makes perfect, having barely arrived on Medhufushi Mateja our new female reinforcement started the very important and necessary training to handle our emergency equipment. Fully motivated and with a blue sky in front of the door the training is so much more fun, [...]

MY Sheena Tour – 07. – 17.09.2017

07.09.2017 After the check in and all the paperwork at the dive center, we say welcome on board. After the briefing, everybody can assemble his equipment on the dive dhoni. Tired from the long journey we say good night after the dinner.   08.09.2017 Fish [...]

Filitheyo got the best help

13.11.2017 Due to the closure of Bathala, Filitheyo got the best help we could wish for. 😊 Till the opening of Hondaafushi (no, even we do not know a final date ☹ ) Kathi, Flo, Zia and Tofail will support us here on Filitheyo. Maxim [...]

Ved – our new colleague

We finally want to introduce you to our new colleague Ved. He is special to us since he is our first and one and only Indian dive instructor. He has been working in the Andaman Sea. We are very happy to welcome him in the [...]

Mantas & More

08.11.2017 This dive site already carries it in its name. After spending them holidays in the summer months, they are all back and curious about us divers. Lots of big mantas! In the truest sense of the word they playfully get in touch with us. [...]

BBQ Night

BBQ Night :-) The occasion was our Good Bye to Samira and Sylvain. They both finished their season on Filitheyo. Now it's time for them to carry on. We thank you both very much for all your support. We wish you all the best - wherever your [...]

farewell blog

Dear guests, friends and colleagues, we have closed the dive center today with a crying and a laughing eye and will leave the island in the next few days. We had a great time on Bathala, but we are also looking forward to the new [...]

Hondaafushi update

31.10.2017 Florian brought us some pictures of Hondaafushi. We hope to get some new images from the operator very soon. They are not perfect, but they are real and let us hope that we will be on the island by the end of November. Our [...]

Mountains & Ocean

16.10.2017 Our great guests Tami and Stefano exchanged their Swiss mountains for two weeks against the Maldivian underwater world. Tami has successfully completed her Open Water course and Stefano has just added his Advanced with a Nitrox and a Waves, Tides and Current Brevet. It [...]

Bathala Wildlife

13.10.2017 It is not only under water that you can admire nature. Also on land there is a lot to discover. The island is home to a variety of Lizards, the popular Maldivian cuckoo (which awakens us in the early morning) and, of course, the [...]

MY Sheena Tour – KW 40 – 01. – 07.10.2017

01.10.2017 A beautiful sunny day, Sheena is clean and fresh to welcome new guests. We had total 10 divers who arrived at different times of the day. As it was late when all the guest arrives Sheena, we did not do a check dive, but [...]

Hondaa Blog

07.07.2017 Area Manager Otmar and future dive center manager Florian are on the island and check around. It is the first visit for Florian, who is impressed of the size and the distances on Hondaafushi! No wonder, as he is used to little Bathala Island. [...]

Update Hondaafushi

27.09.2017 As we have just heard from Schauinsland Reisen, the opening of Hondaafushi has been postponed once again. Schauinsland Reisen is now only confirming bookings and stays from 06.11.2017. Our Area Manager is on his way to the Maldives and will be on site during [...]

Then and now

21.09.2017 We browsed the archiv a bit and look what we found. That's how the Koimas used to look like. Well, sure that after nearly 8 years under water the wreck doesn't look the same any more. But the fishes seem to love their home. [...]

Update Bathala

19.09.2017 Dear Guests, due to the start of the renovation on Bathala, we will temporarily close the diving centre from 31.10.2017. Until now there is no date for reopening. Of course, we keep you up to date.

Welcome Ahmed

03.09.2017 We have grown. We have added a new team member. Ahmed is from the Maldives and knows all about the Atolls. He has been working in the dive industry for a long time. Since 3 years he is a dive instructor too. We are [...]