Diamonds Athuruga Beach & Water Villas
Resort in South Ari. Its reef is measured from satellite; guest reviews live on the booking sites.
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House reef & underwater
Diamonds Athuruga Beach & Water Villas · South Ari · a house reef
Excellent house reef
Reef Conditions · top 10% of the 297 reefs we have measured
Shore entry Measured
~294 m across the lagoon to the drop-off — a genuine swim, not a wade.
Living cover Measured
About 47% of the mapped reef reads as living coral or algae from satellite.
Heat history Measured
Peak heat stress 4.29 DHW since the imagery, no bleaching alert on record.
From satellite this reef reads Excellent — roughly 47% living cover. We have not surveyed it in the water, so fish counts and big-encounter ratings stay pending. We don't estimate them.
Reef data modelled from Allen Coral Atlas benthic & geomorphic maps (CC BY 4.0) and NOAA Coral Reef Watch. No in-water survey — every figure above is a measurement. Marine icons: game-icons.net (CC BY 3.0).
Whale shark
Present year-round — the single most widely mis-stated fact about Maldivian wildlife. The South Ari protected area works as a resting and development ground for juvenile sharks rather than a stop on a migration, so the population persists instead of arriving and leaving. The record runs to over 6,000 sightings of nearly 400 identified individuals across two decades.
Reef manta ray
A northeast-monsoon animal on this side of the atoll — the mirror image of Baa. Rangali Madivaru, on the western flank, sees mantas from about December to April, with courtship and pregnant females concentrated between January and April.
Turtles — no atoll-level seasonal study exists; treat them as year-round residents rather than a season
Reef sharks — no atoll-level seasonal data
Photos
Where it is
3.88721, 72.81632The pin is the island centroid from our geocoding, not the building — properties on the same island share it. Satellite imagery © Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics.