diving7seas – Special Edition EMBUDU / ENGLISH | Page 29

diving7seas 2020
Come on – let‘s dive!
The sharks are already
waiting in the channel
gives the sign for departure - and off we go.
Now we know why the dive is called Embu-
du Express. With the speed of the current
we fly along the
edge of the reef
into the interior of
the northern South
Male‘ Atoll.
If you have had
enough (or your
finimetre shows is
approaching the
red section), you
set the buoy to
three meters and
will be picked up by
the dhoni after the
safety stop.
„We already had divers, who almost came
up at the house reef of Embudu“, Jan says
later with a grin. It‘s not really an art. Indeed
the island is in the way of the incoming cur-
rent that gets slower and slower at the end of
the channel. The proximity to the channel is
also the reason why even at the house reef
sharks, manta rays and dolphins can be ob-
served on their way through.
„But no one can
imagine that the big
animals are cons-
tantly loitering on
the house reef and
just waiting for our
divers,“ Wolfgang in-
terjects. „Of course
luck is part of it, but
it‘s not impossible
either. However, Di-
verland doesn‘t put
it any other way“.
Always at the house reef are the usual
suspects who live in such biotopes: From
octopus to moray eels, napoleon fishs of
different sizes, mackerels that appear in small
hunting groups as well as occasionally in
large swarms. Below at the foot of the coral
garden near the mini wreck with its exposed
motors lives a large swarm of snappers.
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