411 Dive Log Australasia April 2025

These sharks move around calmly, and are much more interested in what they are finding under the rocks than in the bubble-blowing mammals that are watching them.

The local dive shops have a changing roster as to when they can dive at Tiger Point, so the timing of your dive here will be different from day to day. The other two dives of the day will be wall dives. Sometime toward the north of the island, and sometimes to the south along the huge, submerged reef that forms the tail of the imaginary map nudibranch. Most of this reef has a flat top around the 12m mark and then descends rapidly into the blue. Typical dives here see the dive group drop down to around the 30m mark and then swim out from the wall into that blue. There’re not many places in the world where you do this as your normal dive plan! ‘The more current the better the sightings’ is the unwritten

rule here, and two days before my trip they had an encounter with over 100 hammerheads. When I was there though the water was still and the sightings harder to come by. I did however spot about five thresher sharks during these dives, mainly in the middle of the day which surprised me as in other locales they tend to retreat to the depths during the day. The list of potential encounters is enticing though. From whale sharks, mola-mola and oceanic mantas, to silky, oceanic whitetip, oceanic blacktip, silvertip and more. Rare encounters have included billfish and the smalltooth sandtiger shark. This is a place where the unusual becomes possible! Special mention must be made of the personnel at Fuvahmulah Scuba Club. Most dive guide groups get along

At the start of a week at Fuvahmulah your heart will be in your mouth. By the end of it you have settled in, and have begun wondering when you can return.

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