Wattaru Kandu

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This site is best dived when the tide is flowing into the atoll. The reef is marked by a small sandbank, and the shallow reeftop is clearly visible. You descend on the ocean side of the channel towards the atoll bed at 30m (100ft), keeping the reef on your right.

The best part of the dive is a section of large, broken rocks that form a crevice running up the reef at an angle of 45º. Here you can see stingrays in the sand on the channel floor, white tip reef sharks and a meadow of garden eels .

From “Maldives Dive guide” pub. by new Holland, written by Rob Bryning & Sam Harwood.