One particular main safari issue: whale shark. Cruising alongside the south side of Ari Atoll was really valuable – the crew watching from atop with the Theia for whale shark shapes and shadows near the outer reefs at some 10m depth ended up successful. We dropped shut for the to begin with whale shark, we had the honor of snorkeling with this 10m giant ?until my legs failed to maneuver, a condition challenge. ?Immediately after getting picked up because of the dive boat we continued to a dive site called Maamigilli Kandhu and had been happy to encounter two whale sharks coming away from the atoll at slow speed which made it possible to follow even with dive gear. I Love liveaboard scuba diving! Ten memorable minutes with this gentle beast, a pretty much breath getting devotional dive.

Future dive which took us on the house reef north west of Dhigurah delivered another manta ray encounter + a king dimension sting ray hunting to the major reef – seriously productive dive again. Seems rays and shark have all five gills. Over the way back again from dive site into the Theia, many of the fitter divers went snorkeling with two further mantas who had been cruising the lagoon of Dhigurah island near the night time anchorage.