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An extreme jumping heaven, Rasdhoo is an occupied island in the Maldives. Floating 60 km west of the nation's capital, Malé, Rasdhoo is the solitary occupied island of a little regular atoll otherwise called Rasdu or Ross Atoll is found a couple of miles off North Ari Atoll. Marvelous marine life, lively reefs, warm waters and large fish experiences make Rasdhoo island a plunging objective not to be missed.

Forget everything you think you know about the Maldives. Forget the overwater villas, the sunset cocktails, the gentle reef fish drifting past honeymoon snorkellers. Fuvahmulah is something altogether different a remote, singular island at the bottom of the archipelago where the ocean delivers experiences that divers spend entire careers chasing.This is where you dive with tiger sharks. Every single day.The World's Greatest Tiger Shark EncounterMore than 400 individual adult tiger sharks call Fuvahmulah home. Not passing through resident. The largest documented aggregation of tiger sharks anywhere on Earth gathers just outside the harbour in just 8 to 10 metres of water, and they are there every morning when your dive guide enters the water. No luck required. No waiting. No disappointment.These are not small sharks. Experienced divers who have visited every major tiger shark destination in the world Tiger Beach in the Bahamas, Beqa Lagoon in Fiji, Guadalupe Island in Mexico describe Fuvahmulah's tigers as the biggest, most impressive they have ever seen. Many are pregnant females, tracked and studied by the pioneering Momma Shark Ultrasound Project, which was born on this island.Your group will be small. Your guides will be among the most experienced shark divers working anywhere in the world. And the briefing you receive before you enter the water will be the best preparation you have ever had for a shark dive. This is what Fuvahmulah does. It is all it does.Fuvahmulah vs World Competitors*:not(:first-child)]:border-subtlest [&>*:not(:first-child)]:border-l" style="border-color: rgba(39, 26, 0, 0.07); scrollbar-color: initial; scrollbar-width: initial; --tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-pan-x: ; --tw-pan-y: ; --tw-pinch-zoom: ; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-gradient-from-position: ; --tw-gradient-via-position: ; --tw-gradient-to-position: ; --tw-ordinal: ; --tw-slashed-zero: ; --tw-numeric-figure: ; --tw-numeric-spacing: ; --tw-numeric-fraction: ; --tw-ring-inset: ; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-offset-color: inherit; --tw-ring-color: inherit80; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 2px 0 #0000000d, 0 4px 6px 0 #00000005; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 2px 0 var(--tw-shadow-color), 0 4px 6px 0 var(--tw-shadow-color); --tw-blur: ; --tw-brightness: ; --tw-contrast: ; --tw-grayscale: ; --tw-hue-rotate: ; --tw-invert: ; --tw-saturate: ; --tw-sepia: ; --tw-drop-shadow: ; --tw-backdrop-blur: ; --tw-backdrop-brightness: ; --tw-backdrop-contrast: ; --tw-backdrop-grayscale: ; --tw-backdrop-hue-rotate: ; --tw-backdrop-invert: ; --tw-backdrop-opacity: ; --tw-backdrop-saturate: ; --tw-backdrop-sepia: ; --tw-contain-size: ; --tw-contain-layout: ; --tw-contain-paint: ; --tw-contain-style: ; position: absolute; bottom: 4px; right: 4px; display: flex; border-radius: 0.375rem; --tw-bg-opacity: 1; opacity: 1; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 0px 0px 0px 0px, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 0px 0px 0px 0px, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05) 0px 0px 2px 0px, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.02) 0px 4px 6px 0px; transition-property: opacity; transition-duration: 0.15s; transition-timing-function: cubic-bezier(0.4, 0, 0.2, 1);" bis_skin_checked="1">Five More Reasons to Book Your Trip NowBlack oceanic manta rays. 90% of all black oceanic manta sightings in the entire Maldives happen here, between March and May. There is nowhere else in the country arguably nowhere else in the world where you have a better chance of encountering this rare, spectacular animal.Thresher sharks. Year-round at the cleaning stations. Between October and December, the right tide brings them up to just 12 to 15 metres. Some guests have watched them leap clean out of the water.Scalloped hammerheads. Schooling in the hundreds from October through April. Deep, current-driven dives for advanced divers the kind of experience serious underwater photographers travel the globe to find.Whale sharks. Adult females, 10 to 12 metres long, from January through May. Sometimes with pups alongside them.Silvertip sharks, grey reefs, whitetips, pilot whales, mola mola. The list does not stop.An Island Unlike Any Other in the MaldivesFuvahmulah is not just a dive site it is a place. The only single-island atoll in the country with natural freshwater lakes. A UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. A community of 13,000 people with their own dialect, their own food, their own proud history. When you surface from the best dive of your life, you come up somewhere genuinely worth being.Shark SeasonsSpeciesPeak MonthsDepthNotesTiger SharksYear-round8-10mDaily harbour divesBlack Manta RaysMar-May (90%)SurfaceRare oceanic variantThresher SharksOct-Dec12-15mCleaning stationsHammerhead SchoolsOct-Apr25-30mHundreds schoolingWhale SharksJan-MaySurface10-12m females + pupsPlan Your TripThree world-class dive centres handle everything - flights from Male, accommodation, and every dive you want to do.Fuvahmulah Dive School - the original. PADI five-star. Local guides with thousands of dives at these exact sites.Pelagic Divers Fuvahmulah - boutique, Maldivian-owned, maximum 14 guests per boat.Extreme Dive Fuvahmulah - fully equipped PADI facility with on-site accommodation for over 20 divers.

The acclaimed whale shark zone in South Ari Atoll, Dhigurah is a long Maldivian island with stretch of white sandy sea shores. Paradise for aficionados of submerged undertakings, Dhigurah island is 20-minutes by homegrown flight or 1.5 hour speed-boat ride from Malé air terminal. Budgetary in width, and extending for a length of 3 kilometers, a lovely populated island is viewed as one of the longest in the Maldives.