Lion’s Head

Lion’s Head

Experience Level:   Intermediate to advanced

Depth:    15 – 120 feet

Visibility:     45 – 120 feet

Water Temperature:   27 – 30°C

Season:   Year-round.

Lion’s Head is one of the Maldives’ most beautiful dive sites, named for one of the coral formations here that is shaped like a lion’s head.  Located off the southern end of North Male Atoll, it is a renowned for encounters with grey reef sharks.  Lion’s Head is also home to some spectacularly colorful coral formations, and steep overhangs and a wall reef.  The currents here can be strong, intermediate to advanced level, and scuba divers are likely to be swimming with rainbow fusiliers, napoleon wrasses, triggerfish and a great variety of nudibranchs.

The dive here begins in the shallowest part of the reef and follows a wall which drops down dramatically to about 120 feet (40 meters).  Swimming up this wall is where you will usually find the large pelagic species endemic to the area, particularly tuna, turtles and napoleon wrasse.