For more information on the various ships and cruise details, check out our page on liveaboard holidays in Maldives! Your holidays in the Maldives would not be complete without cruising around the myriad of Maldivian islands on one of the graceful liveaboard cruise ships. Liveaboard cruises in Maldives encompass a mini-holiday within your holiday: journey out on these majestic vessels for a day or more – gracefully cutting the blue seas, jumping from sand bank to sand bank, diving deep into the Indian ocean in all the mysterious locations and simply enjoy the cruise and all it has to offer.

Lucky scuba divers might come across zebra sharks and swim with whale sharks while diving in the Maldives. The zebra shark is not a particularly common shark but is quite stunning in appearance. Also known as the leopard shark, the zebra shark is a species of carpet shark and the zebra sharks behavior finds the creature usually moving around the seabed, close to the coral reef. Most of a zebra sharks prey is caught at night, since the shark is a nocturnal creature. A zebra sharks diet consists mainly of small fish and crustaceans. These are just a handful of the shark types seen in the Maldives. Other species include the nurse shark, variegated shark, snaggletooth shark, silvertip shark, silky shark, tiger shark and sliteye shark, and many others, which together make the Maldives a great destination for shark-loving scuba divers.

The manta ray survival status is not known because so little research has been done about them, but it is known that the numbers in Japan, the Philippines and Mexico where they have been hunted severely are extremely low and they are rarely seen by scuba divers on a manta ray dive.
The life of the manta ray in maldives vacations cheap is a very peaceful affair, and their hunting style is no exception.
As filter feeders, all the manta ray has to do is simply glide through the water, allowing food – mainly plankton, fish larvae and tiny fish – to enter his grill and filter out through his gills.