Globetrotter Dive Guide: Maldives

Download or read book Globetrotter Dive Guide: Maldives written by Sam Harwood and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are estimated to be over 3000 dive sites in the Maldives, which remains one of the world's major diving destinations, renowned as much for the extraordinary natural beauty to its atoll formations as the quality of its diving. Despite the ravages of the 1998 El Nino phenomenon, the Maldives reefs have continued to thrive; where before the focus was on hard corals, now divers of all nationalities come for the myriad fish life and breathtaking array of pelagic species, including manta rays.