DM Club Maldives Trip 2018 - Sharks, Manta Rays, Whale Sharks!!! Fantastic!!

DM Club 2018 Maldives Trip was in June. Maldives is known with beautiful water, wonderful marine life, Big Fish, Small Fish, everything!  
Our original itinerary was "Majestic Manta"; however, it had to be changed due to the tide. Well, still, Maldives is Maldives. This beautiful water had so much to offer for all divers.
From the start, we saw sharks, sharks, and sharks!! They are so graceful. Beautiful creatures. Are you afraid of Sharks? Don't worry! Stay behind me! They are afraid of Japanese!! 😂😂 In fact, most sharks are not what you think like "Jaws". They don't like divers' bubbles. It is too noisy for them and they always swim away from divers.
We saw so many fish!! Turtles, nudibranchs, and more!!
Huge surprise in this trip was Whale Sharks. The guides had not seen Whale Sharks for about a month, so they told us the chance was very thin but not zero. Well, when the expectation was set so low, the surprise was even bigger!
On the morning dive, one big Whale Shark just appeared from the bottom of the sea, swimming through us and upward. I was not ready!! I quickly turned my camera on and started shooting a video. Such a fantastic moment! I was soooo close to her! When I check the video, OMG!! It was not on!! How could I mess up with camera?? I'm "Japanese"!! We are born with Cameras!! 😳 Such a disgraceful Japanese I am...😭 On the second dive of the day, well, God heard my cry!! Three Whale Sharks appeared right by us! Fantastic!! My camera works were still rubbish because of too much excitement, but no bother. We swam with Whale Sharks! 
Such a wonderful experience.
For camera lovers, I strongly recommend a dive site called, "Fish Tank", near by Male. It was really like swimming in the fish tank! Because the fish factory above is throwing away their fish waste, they don't fight for food at all. Amazing thing was you could find 3-4 huge moray eels sharing one hole, sticking their heads out without fighting. You never see such thing. And all of them were sooooo fat and huge.
Oh, Stingrays were funny. They were teasers. They swim right under divers, like arm length close. I could nearly touch them. We spent about 70 minutes while we were supposed to be out from water in 60 minutes. Oops!
On the last day of our whole trip, miracle happened. Three Manta Rays appeared!! We were over the moon! We nearly gave up on finding Manta Rays. God really heard our cry. Three Manta Rays swimming through us over and over and over. So gracefully. What else can you ask for the last dive of your diving holiday?
That was my 2461st dive. I still get all the excitement from diving. Yes, diving is FUN!!

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