DIVE MALDIVES DIVE TRAVEL GUIDEMaldives - Cyber Diver Top 10 Dive Destination >>  f you've been entertaining visions of life on your own uninhabited island as far away as possible from the madness of civilization, you are already halfway to the Maldives. The beauty of these tiny atolls is breathtaking and surpassed only by the astonishing spectacle of marine life so colorful and so diverse, you'll need to bring along a marine biologist to identify it all.Even when El Nino devastated Maldives reefs in 1998, marine life continued to flourish and the reefs are already coming back. Compared to long-term and irreversible damage caused by mass tourism and overdevelopment in many overcrowded coastal resort areas around the world, El Nino is an anomalous, insignificant blip on the Maldives timeline. The water is still crystal-clear and the pinnacles, dropoffs and reefs are swarming with marine life. For serious dive travelers who want to explore the world's richest and most diverse undersea habitats, the Maldives, like Papua New Guinea and the Galapagos, is one of the world's must-dive destinations. Click image to enlarge map |
Facts about the Maldives
- Capital: Male
- Area: 300 sq km
- Population: 310,764
- Estimated Population in 2050: 815,031
- People: Sinhalese, Dravidian, Arab, African
- Language: Maldivian Dhivehi (dialect of Sinhala, script derived from Arabic), English spoken by most government officials
- Literacy: 93.2% total, 93.3% male, 93% female
- Religion: Sunni Muslim
- Life Expectancy: 61.39 male, 63.8 female
- Government: republic
- Currency: 1 rufiyaa (Rf) = 100 laari
- GDP: US$500 million
- GDP per capita: US$2,000
- Inflation: 6.3%
- Major Industries: fish processing, tourism, shipping, boat building, coconut processing, garments, woven mats, rope, handicrafts, coral and sand mining
- Major Trading Partners: Sri Lanka, US, Germany, Singapore, UK, India, Hong Kong, Japan, Thailand
- Natural Resources: fish
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