Maldives Trip Day 2 - Shark Encounter
After our last dive with the Manta rays it was time to make a 5 hour crossing to the next dive site in Rasdhoo near Ari Atoll. It is a bit west from our previous location. Here on the map you can see we were sailing from point 2 to 3.
It's an easy journey, a couple people have taken some sea sickness pills and have gone down for a nap, but how can you sleep through this view? Its a glorious day and the seas are calm.
The boat is calm too, it seems I'm the only one on deck at the moment. The calm is soon shattered though as we prepare for the next dive .
This dive happens a little later in the day than we normally dive due to the time the crossing took to get to Rasdhoo. The wait is worth it though as we swim along the reef wall to get to our viewing point.
At the top of the reef wall at a section of reef near some cross currents we have the best chance to see some sharks come in from the blue, and boy did we ever.
These guys were not shy, and a few times they swam around rather aggressively. To be honest I thought they just liked to show off a bit and remind everyone what their territory is. They were majestic as hell.
One of the nice things about this late afternoon dive, we surfaced right at sunset and coming up you were treated to a pretty idyllic view. I really did feel like I was in paradise at that point. All that was needed to complete the picture was dinner... and that was waiting for us when we got back to the boat.
I put together a video of this dive too, so you can enjoy watching the sharks do their dance too:
Check out the previous posts in this series:
1.Maldives Trip - Day 1: The Epic Journey Begins!
2.Maldives Trip - Day 1: The Boat
3.Maldives Trip Day 2 - Looking for Manta Rays
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awsome I wish I cluld visit maldives someday
I'm sure you will! You just need to save up for it :)
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Wow, what an incredible experience! I've yet to dive with sharks, but hubby and I have talked about taking a trip to Maldives for diving in the future. Looks like we wouldn't be disappointed! What a view to surface to as well. Thanks for sharing!
My pleasure! I can certainly recommend this trip. If you are just in it for the diving than a liveaboard is the best use of your time there, and I do recommend this company. They are excellent and have standards of conservation when underwater .. helping to preserve the life of the coral reefs and marine life, where some of the other companies don't seem to care.
Alternatively you can go to a resort and do some dive trips from there, though you will end up doing fewer dives that way and all in the same area, but it is a more relaxing holiday ;)
Yeah we've done a few resort holidays, where we just did a few dives here and there, and snorkeling trips/around the resort. We'd love to do a liveaboard though! It'll likely be a few years before we get to do anything like that again though.
Same here, it took a while to save up for this one, it will be a while again I think before the next..
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Awesome thanks! :)
What beautiful sharks! Were they whitetip reef sharks or some other species?
I believe these were grey reef sharks.
It looks like you've had a fantastic trip. The images and videos of the sharks are stunning. You're definitely right about them looking majestic the way they swim back and forth.
It looks like there were quite a few divers with you. Typically sharks are portrayed as dangerous, but it seems like in this setting, they were docile and you got to enjoy seeing them swim about. Did you have any reservations about swimming with the sharks?
Thanks! Yeah it was an awesome trip. Typically sharks are not dangerous unless they're feeding (which is normally at night) or they've been cornered. I've swum with sharks a lot in the past, I even once got into the shark tank at seaworld in Jakarta (man that was a long time ago) so I don't really have any reservations about swimming with them. As long as you don't antagonise them and give them their space you're fine :)
That's what I've heard. Glad you can confirm. It sounds like you have a long history with sharks. That's pretty neat. Thanks for sharing.
My pleasure! thanks for stopping by and commenting :)
Welcome back! I should have checked a few days ago! You got some awesome shark shots there. I will have to show them to my husband. He went snorkeling with sharks in Tahiti before we met.
Thanks! I was surprised at how close they got to us. They really were not intimidated by humans at all.
They really rarely attack humans, but they make news when they do!
That they do! Its that human obsession with predatory animals.. and the movie Jaws didn't help either ;)
The shark attack capital of the world is just south of here at New Smyrna Beach, but you are more likely to be struck by lightning at the beach in Florida than to be attacked by a shark. Everyone who enters the water to swim or surf at our beaches here is only yards away from a shark. My friends who surf tell me that they see them all the time!
Diving with the Sharks must have felt quite surreal and the views from the Boat no way could I have napped
And to surface to that sunset what a fantastic day
It was awesome, it was certainly one of the best moments of the trip for me :)
I can only imagine what that must have bene like but am enjoying following along with or great posts :)
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