MY SUPER MEMORABLE 25th DIVE!

Tisya dived with Fulidhoo Dive based at Fulidhoo Island, Maldives along with her father Priyadarshee Panigrahi.

BY TISYA PANIGRAHI (JUNIOR ADVANCED OPEN WATER SCUBA DIVER) 

When I first entered the water, I couldn’t

see much, apart from the sandy bottom and

my fellow divers. But then, suddenly, from

the corner of my eye I saw the nose of a big

creature.

 That’s how I knew that I had begun

the Alimatha Shark Dive, the world famous

dive site at Alimatha Island, Maldives back on the 16th of December 2022.

Alimatha Shark Dive, the world famous dive site at Alimatha Island, Maldives back on the 16th of December 2022.

Nurse sharks may be the most gentle and

carefree creatures I have seen. Majestic

creatures, grey, decorated with these beautiful black spots all over their bodies. They are huge fish too, the biggest one I saw was probably 10 feet long! As we were descending,

I could already see a swarm of these sharks in the distance, but it appeared that they were just as curious about us as we were of them. I later learned that the resort that we were diving with used to feed them, so they probably approached us with the intention of going back with full stomachs.