Maldive Victory Wreck

Maldive Victory Wreck

Depth:  35 meters

Visibility:  15-25 meters

Currents: Strong during ascent and descent

Season:   Year-round

In 1981, a 360-feet freighter named Maldive Victory, coming from Singapore, ran aground onto the southern tip of the airport island in the Maldives, springing a leak and sinking rapidly.  The wreck is now one of the Maldives’ premier dive sites and attracts many scuba divers each year.

There are extremely strong currents here, so all divers descend and ascend along a dive line.  Once you have descended to the depth of the boat the wrecked ship acts as a shelter from the currents and you can move around easily.  Most items from the boat, including the compass, have disappeared from the boat and so there is not that much to see inside the cockpit, but you can dive into other parts of the ship to have look around.  You should take a flashlight and go with a divemaster or someone who knows the boat well.

Since the wreckage almost thirty years ago, the amount of marine life that has moved onto the wreck and now call it home is amazing.  A group of batfish constantly swim around the ship, as well as several barracuda and fusiliers.  Lucky divers will often find a sea turtle inside the boat.