Dive Maldives

Fourth Edition – updated and released in 2023. This book gives a comprehensive overview of island history, Indian Ocean maritime history and famous shipwrecks of the Maldives. Dive Maldives includes a useful diver information section, resort names and atoll maps, as well as an index of fish, invertebrates and dive sites that await scuba divers in the Maldives. First published in 1996 and reprinted with updated information in 1998 as the 2nd edition. Translated into English, French, Italian and German. Reprinted with additional information in 2006 and again in 2018 as the 3rd Edition. The atoll maps show more than 200 resorts. This edition adds new resort names and updates island information.

Author Biography

Timothy J. Godfrey has been researching the atolls of the Maldives since 1986 when he started work as a dive instructor and guide on safari boats. Prior to this, he worked as a journalist in Northwest Australia in 1983 and later travelled and worked on charter vessels and fishing boats in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Queensland and Victoria’s Southwest coast. In 1996 he started Atoll Editions and published Dive Maldives – A Guide to the Maldives Archipelago; Malways – Maldives Island Directory (later editions published as Atlas of the Maldives) and Maldives Divers and Travellers Map. In 2014 he co-authored Fishes of the Maldives with Rudie Kuiter. In 2007, he returned to marine studies and completed a Bachelor Science (Marine Biology) degree at James Cook University, Qld in 2013.