Dive Review of
Baani Adventurer in
Maldives

 San Diego, Rarotonga, Caymans, Roatan, Utilia 

Dive Conditions

59 min dive time, 90 ft max depth  

No rinse bucket on Dhoni, but there were plenty of charging stations on
main boat  

Overall Rating

We recently returned from our liveaboard in the Maldives and it was really
good. 
We had a long flight from LAX and went on Singapore Airlines which went
really smooth. 
We once arriving we stayed overnight at the Central Hotel and then met the
Baani back at the airport the next day. The locals were great and are very
friendly and had no problems with Americans. 
There were 18 passengers: 8 Germans, 4 Italians and 4 non-diver Italians.
We did 3 dives a day and 1 day with 4. The currents were pretty strong on
1/2 the dives so doing more then 3 was a challenge. On one channel dive 1/2
of the divers had to abort the dive because they couldn't get down fast
enough before they passed by the reef to quickly. 
The crew was really great and tried very hard to find good spots where the
current didn't pull your mask off. These were the strongest currents we had
ever experienced so saw it as good practice. The crew said that the
currents were unusally strong and the water temp was down and vis is
usually better in Jan and Feb
Vis was on avg 60 ft and water temp was 79-81F and there was loads of
fish, especially macro. 
The boat was clean and the food was really good. All the DM's were
knowledgable, friendly and had safety in mind. 
We saw loads of white tips, 1 12 ft grey reef shark and lots of mantas. On
our last dive we could snorkel or dive at a manata sight and the snorkels
said the mantas were very friendly and would come circle them and even
touch them, but if you tried to touch a manta it would take off. We dove
and I had one small manta play with me by spinning when ever I spun. It was
great interaction. 
We got 18 dives in  7 days. The corral was looking like it was making a
comeback from the Tsunami and I think there was a hurricane recently. One
passenger said he had been there 10 years before and said the corral was
pristine back then compared to what it looks like now. 
The only thing that really bothered us was that there was no regard about
touching the coral. We saw some divers kick right into it causing damage.
We did use reef hooks for some areas which seem to do less damage then just
grabbing on to what ever you could. Besides that it was a good trip. 

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