Pleasure, I chose to dive in Filitheyo, in the North Nilandhu atoll
area, the dive center is run by Werner Lau, a very respectable world
wide dive company - German, but are all multilingual.

I took my NRC/IANTD Nitrox course there, and after I passed I had
Nitrox added free to every dive for the duration of my holiday (2
weeks)

Oh look for the Maldive dive holiday people called Maldive Scuba
Tours, had an almost half price late booking vacation with them.

Flew out via Emirates, IMHO is the best airline in the world, cabin
class felt like Business Class, free drinks throughout flight (except
champagne), food excellent, menu supplied for dinner, with napkins.
Cabin staff, could not do enough for you, and were honestly attentive,
no false smiles. Excellent TV/Video/X Box/Outside cam Video console
per seat + Satellite Phone. Went via Dubai... take MONEY ... 18 carat
gold earings about 2 pound 50 pence a pair.(sorry no pound sign on
this keyboard .

Ok, when via Mali, then seaplane to Filitheyo.

Cabins all are on beach or on stilts above water, beautiful beds,
outside shower and washroom facilities in private courtyard, walk off
verandah onto beach, beach boys picking up fresh coconuts and
modelling them for you to drink - no charge!

Restaurant exceptional -
10 courses Breakfast
12 Courses Lunch
15 Courses Dinner

I had booked Brkfst and dinner, but lunch was only $10 extra (if
needed)

I have photos of the island if you wish to see them

OK diving......
The dive center is the fairest I have ever seen, you do what dives
when and where you want, and at the end of the vacation, they use the
computer to work out the best and cheapest deal for you, which for me
meant a few days on per diem (doing the Nitrox course) then an
unlimited 5 day package, then a couple of extra packages. SO YOU get
the best deal.

Fancy an early morning dive ??
Night before, simply go to dive center, use the checkboard, Din/A
clamp, Air/NOX, Which Point you are going to leave from & time you
want to dive.
Result: You wander down to the beach point and your gear and tank is
waiting for you (on a bench with point number), you stroll out through
the shallow lagoon until you get to the allowed cut in the lagoon
wall, and slip through - bottom is just over 100 feet down, beautiful
walls... follwo the current until you need to exit, then find the
nearest point to exit, you will know because there is a floor to
surface rope and marker bouys, exit the wall back into the lagoon, get
to shore, leave equipment on Point bench..... go back to dive center
and mark which point you exited. Your gear is picked up..

Wash gear when it returns, and ready for next dive.

You can also choose the many boat dives there are, the dive sites are
almost unlimted,
Viz up to 100 feet
MANY MANY typs of fish, including some large Rays (over 8 feet
wingspan), Whalesharks, and many white tip and black tip reefsharks,
groupers, morays .
Soft coral now bounced back beautifully, hard corals still coming back
slowly.

Evening after finishing your daily banquet, you can relax in the bar,
good prices, soft music, where you can actually hold a conversation,
below sea level library (just).. you go down steps to a sunken
library, nice jewellery and other shops.

No time to get bored, is a divers and sunbathers/honeymoon paradise.
You should have seenw hat they done for my ex-buddies birthday, almost
made me cry ..lol.

The very best I have ever had.

Regards

Rob

Vulcan Bomber (101 Squadron)

It was much better before the hurricane - haven't found a better place