DIVE LOG AUSTRALASIA FEB 2026

Tiger sharks are at the top of the food chain, they don’t have too much to worry about. They are large, bulky predators that deserve our respect. Diving with them here when you have so many experience sharks handlers with you is the best and safest way to do it.

the blue a bit, not being so sure of themselves to try to muscle in where the 4m bulky females were establishing dominance over the feeding area. Every dive here had at least six tigers in attendance, and after the initial dive nerves we were able to relax a bit more and enjoy being in the company of these massive predatory fish. The dive guides here are incredible in the way they can manoeuvre the sharks away from the attending divers. They do not use shark sticks

of any sort, preferring to use proximity and gentle pushes to steer the sharks in the direction that they want them to go. Seeing how they do this is worth the trip in itself. We did two other dives per day at various locations around the north, east and northwest sides of Fuvahmulah. Due to the swell, we weren’t able to get out onto the submerged reef that lies to the south of the island, but the northern end dives did not

The blackfinned anemonefish is endemic to the Maldives, Sri Lanka, and some off shore Indian islands.

There were a surprising number of octopus on the reefs here

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DIVE LOG Australasia #416 February ‘26

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