Centered mainly in the north of the country, tours aboard the Manthiri, the fruit of years of experience and new discoveries, offer the best combination of dive sites. The tours are designed for whale shark and rich fish-life sightings. While the sightings of the big pelagics are not guaranteed, the chance of encountering them is extremely high!!!! And the diving is exciting and beautiful.
Each tour covers at least two or three atolls with cruising done during the daylight hours, passing by palm-fringed islands set over sugar-white sand beaches and turquoise lagoons. Normally the vessel is calmly anchored by sunset, sometimes near an uninhabited island or a deserted sand bank, sometimes near an inhabited island, affording guests an opportunity to savour the local arts, crafts and singing and dancing called boduberu. Diving is done from an accompanying 54 foot dive boat with a big dive deck comfortably seating 14 divers and conveniently laid out with tank racks, hot water showers, head, and rinse tank. Everything on the tour is designed with the diver's ease and pleasure in mind.