Maldives Breaks the Scuba Dive World Record!

Maldives has made a new world record for “Most people scuba diving simultaneously” on a single site.

On 25 February 2006 at Sunlight Thila in North Male’ Atoll located 9.6 km from Male’ International Airport, 979 divers dived to break the existing record of 722. This dive took place between 11:00hrs and 11:30hrs.

Divers aged between 10-73, consisting of tourists, Maldivians and expatriates from 37 resorts, 9 dive centres including the Coast Guard and 14 safari vessels participated in this record dive.

Post-event celebrations were held at Kuda Bandos where all the participants enjoyed a beach barbeque lunch while they were entertained by Maldivian cultural dances and bodu beru. During this event, the Minister of Tourism and Civil Aviation, Dr. Mahamood Shouqee congratulated the divers and thanked the organising committee, sponsors and the divers for their role in making this event a success. Certificates were awarded to the divers and the day ended with a photo session with all the participants.