What we do:
At Aqua Dive our experienced and passionate instructors conduct PADI training from DSD up to Divemaster level and a range of specialties and events to enhance your dive skills and ocean awareness. Our Divemaster training in a unique programme with a conservation mindset, including coral gardening, clean up dives, fish and coral surveys and more.
Dedicated to eco tourism, our tours and courses are designed to ensure that we make the most of the amazing ocean life the Maldives has to offer, without having any negative effect on this fragile environment. You will never find single use plastics in our dive centre or on our tours and we are committed to sustainability throughout our operation - as shown in our Green Fins membership. Our philosophy is simple, if we can leave an area better than how we found it then thats what we do.
Experienced divers can join us for fun shore and boat dives around the beautiful Lhaviyani Atoll, where we are fortunate to have a array of world-class dive sites, from megafauna cleaning stations and pristine coral reefs to exploring wrecks and exhilarating channel dives.
Not a diver? Join us for snorkel excursions, dolphin watching trips and seasonal Manta excursions to the UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, Hanifaru Bay, or partake in water sports activities right of the shore from our beach-side centre. Contact our friendly staff for more information.
Conservation Training
Working closely with the local NGO, Atoll Marine Centre, and their on-site Marine Biologists we specialise in Coral Reef Restoration and Conservation training. A Reef Guru partner facility, we teach the practical sessions for both the Restoration Diver and Conservation Diver courses as well as a 2-4 week Coral Restoration Volunteer Program with Atoll Volunteers.
We also offer the full range of PADI AWARE courses: PADI AWARE Specialist, Dive Against Debris, Shark Conservation, Coral Reef Conservation, Peak Performance Buoyancy and Fish ID - which we teach using the REEF (Reef Environmental Education Foundation) curriculum - as well as training for the CoralWatch Coral Health Chart specialty, Whale Shark Awareness and our distinctive Sea Turtle Awareness specialty. Plus a unique, conservation-orientated, Divemaster Internship too.
We are proud to be a PADI Eco Centre, actively promoting marine biodiversity and community resilience by addressing our ocean’s global challenges.
We are dedicated to engaging in direct conservation action including citizen science, policy advocacy, and education and work hard to reduce the environmental footprint of our operations, embedding sustainability as a core business value.
Weekly Events
Dive Against Debris:
Friday afternoons are for Dive Against Debris, we meet at our dive shop at 3pm for a short presentation / briefing before gearing up and embarking on a clean up dive to one of our Adopt The Blue sites. After the dive we work together to sort through and survey the trash collected, recycling what we can and submitting the data to PADI AWARE. This event can also go towards earning your PADI Dive Against Debris Specialty, ask us for more details.
CoralWatch Surveys:
CoralWatch is a citizen science initiative dedicated, through volunteers, to monitoring the health of corals around the world. We have 5 CoralWatch survey sites around Naifaru which we monitor on a weekly basis. This event starts with a short presentation and briefing from one of our team before we enter the water and snorkel along one of our reefs, collecting data along the way. This data is then submitted to the CoralWatch global database to be used by scientists worldwide. This event can also go towards earning your PADI CoralWatch Coral Health Chart Specialty, ask us for more details.
REEF Fish Surveys:
Utilising the REEF (Reef Environmental Education Foundation) Volunteer Fish Survey Project, our weekly surveys start with an FISH ID presentation and briefing on how to complete your own fish survey. Once we understand the theory, we will go out and survey one of our local sites, collecting data which will be submitted and used in one of the largest marine life databases in the world. This event can also go towards earning your PADI Fish ID Specialty, ask us for more details.
Beach Cleans:
Each week, along with Atoll Volunteers, we walk one of our local beaches and clean up the trash we find along the way. The rubbish is then sorted and any plastic is separated into Parley bags which will be collected and recycled. This event could be a beach on Naifaru or on one of the uninhabited islands nearby.