Dive Review of Bandos Dive Center in
Maldives/North Male Atoll

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Bandos Dive Center: "Back Again and update", Oct, 2018, by Bill Kasischke, CO, US ( 2 reports with 5 Helpful votes). Report 10603 has 3 Helpful votes.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving
Snorkeling
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Comments	Return trip - Last visit October 2017 - Last review November 2016 I've been diving from the Bandos Island Resort since 1995. Since my last review in 1996, I've found the hard corals around the central North Male atoll and on sites at the North (Vaadhoo caves) and South ends (Kandoomaa Thila) the South Male Atoll to be mostly without live hard coral. The soft corals around those sites and others seem to be in good condition. The fish life in most cases is still robust. The Bandos Island resort buffet food is still very good and the rooms and facilities excellent. The dive operation is also still excellent and has added a very nice new dive boat which is faster than in previous years. Nitrox is still complementary to those certified for it. They run 2 tank morning trips, 1 tank afternoon and a selection of sunset and night dives weekly. All those dives were drift dives. The local house reef is available for diving and snorkeling, but the corals are gone. It's still an OK dive as the fish life is still plentiful. During this trip the currents were running fairly strong and lots of white tip, black tip and grey reef sharks were spotted. To be fair my group was offered some special trips that the general groups were not as we have been diving with them since 1995. Mantas were spotted on several dives at cleaning stations and occasionally on other dives. Having a dive without at least one turtle spotting was very unusual. Bill
Websites	Bandos Dive Center
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	501-1000 dives
Where else diving	Hawaii, Honduras, Texas lakes, Australia, New Zealand
Closest Airport	MLE	Getting There	DEN-SFO-SIN-MLE
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, windy, cloudy	Seas	choppy, surge, currents
Water Temp	80-86°F / 27-30°C	Wetsuit Thickness	1
Water Visibility	30-150 Ft/ 9-46 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	30 meteres, 60 minutes
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	Lots	Mantas	Squadrons
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	> 2	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish
Large Pelagics
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter	N/A	Boat Facilities	N/A
Overall rating for UWP's	N/A	Shore Facilities	N/A
UW Photo Comments	[None]

Report currently has 3 Helpful votes

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Dive Review of Bandos Dive Center in Maldives/North Male Atoll

Bandos Dive Center: "Back Again and update", Oct, 2018,

Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):

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Reporter and Travel

Dive Conditions

Dive Policy

What I Saw

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Dive Review of Bandos Dive Center in
Maldives/North Male Atoll