white tip shark

white tip shark

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Hi everyone,

Welcome to Snorkelling in the Maldives, a blog designed to enable any snorkeller or scuba diver, whether novice or experienced, to get maximum pleasure from a trip to the Maldives. Many posts will concern the easy identification of the fish you see there as well. The one above is a Whitetip Reef Shark, the most widespread shark species on the Maldivian Reefs.

Our snorkelling career started in Australia's Hayman Island 20 years ago. Since then we have been fascinated by the world beneath the waves. We have snorkelled in Lord Howe, Australia, and seen the southern-most reach of the soft corals. We have bobbed in Brampton and Heron Islands in the Australian Whitsundays on the Great Barrier Reef, swum round Michaelmas Key in Cairns, dived in Indonesia and the Gilli Islands, sampled the warm waters of the south seas in Vanuatu, Rarotonga, New Caledonia and Fiji and explored the reefs of the Maldives in the Indian Ocean. And never once did the underwater world lose its fascination. We are hooked on the Maldives and keep coming back - twice a year to atolls that seem to feature more exotic and rare fish than anywhere else.

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Tuesday, November 13, 2012




Scribbled Leatherjacket: (Aluteres scriptus) What a wonderfully evocative name this member of the Filefish family has. It is not at all common in the Maldives but you will know it if you are lucky enough to see it. It averages 60 cm but can grow to a metre in length – a third of which is its extremely long tail. It is beautifully coloured in pale blue and yellow with plenty of black spots. It has an extremely varied diet including hydrozoa, sea anemones, gorgonias, tunicates and algae.


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