[bdurrett]

Originally Posted by quinp

Greetings all !

Want to wish everyone a warm hello from sunny Mumbai. I've just joined deeperblue as a means of learning more about the diving conditions in the Maldives in early December. I'm finding though there's much more to this site than that. So I look forward to hearing from you all.

If anyone out there does have any insight on diving Maldives in early Decemebr I would love to hear from you.

Best Regards, and happy diving!

Quin Pasquariello
quinp@inmail24.com

Hi Quin,

I was there last year in early/mid-December at Summer Island (a smallish 3-star All-Included resort in the same atoll as Male but in the farthest northwestern corner near Eriydoo). What do you want to know? Nearly every dive was a drift dive because there was always a current, albeit mostly light. Sight was about 7-10 meters. You will want to make sure that you wash your ears after every dive because, if you don't, the plankton will give you an infection that wyou REALLY do not want to have.... I dove in a 3 mm full and was occasionally too warm. Others dove in 5mm and were fine. The DMs wore 3mm full or 3 mm shorties..... We got some pretty wicked rain storms at night on a couple of nights but there were only a couple of days that were cloudy and even those were not cloudy the whole day.....

I have posted a bunch of photos from the trip in my gallery here....

Have fun!
Bret