Wattaru Kandu

• 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 45�. Here you can see stingrays in the sand on the channel floor, white tip reef sharks and a meadow of
  garden eels.
  

      Lankanfinolhu Faru (Manta Point)

• In the southwest season as astonishing number of manta rays can be seen here when they come in to be cleaned.
  The top of the reef is at 12m ((40ft); the reef then slopes gently down to 40m (130ft). It is interspersed with massive
  porites corals that are home to the colonies of cleaner fish. The manta rays come in from the deep water and hover
  over the coral heads while the wrasse set to work. To ensure the best sighting you need to be patient and position
  yourself close to, but not on top of, the coral heads. If you do not crowd the mantas they will perform their cleaning ritual
  in front of your eyes. It is common for encounters to last half an hour or more, but if you try to touch the mantas you will scare them away. Should you be unlucky enough not to see mantas, this is still a tremendous dive site: huge schools of bullseye fish, oriental sweetlips and napoleon wrasse, plus heaps of turtles and various species of moray eels.
  

      Lions Head

• This is a thrilling dive. You can see schooling grey reef shark as well as some superb soft corals and a mass of colourful reef life. The overhang, shaped like a lion's head, is the pinnacle of a natural break in the reef which interupts the tidal flow and causes upwellings. The reeftop is at 3m (10ft) and shelves off steeply to 40m (130ft), before plunging into the depths. There are caves and overhangs in the first 25m (80ft). From the point of entry, where most of the sharks are seen, you can follow the reef either east or west depending on the direction of the current. On the reef wall, you find a
  

huge variety of invertebrates and fishes. Look out for the unusual leaf fish and the false stone fish. Hawksbill turtles are common. Resorts used to shark feed here. The site is now a Protected Marine Area as designated by the Maldivian Government.