Long Beach Laamu
Guesthouse island in Laamu Atoll. Its reef is measured from satellite; guest reviews live on the booking sites.
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House reef & underwater
Long Beach Laamu · Laamu Atoll · a shared island reef
Good house reef
Reef Conditions · top 63% of the 297 reefs we have measured
Shore entry Measured
~526 m across the lagoon to the drop-off — a genuine swim, not a wade.
Living cover Measured
About 28% of the mapped reef reads as living coral or algae from satellite.
Heat history Measured
Peak heat stress 5.14 DHW since the imagery, 2 bleaching-alert years on record (2016, 2024).
From satellite this reef reads Good — roughly 28% 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).
Grey reef shark
Laamu Maavah Kandu is a year-round cleaning area, recorded across several hundred surveys, and also holds an aggregation of silvertip sharks.
Turtles — no atoll-level seasonal study exists; treat them as year-round residents rather than a season
Mantas — reported at Fushi Kandu in the southwest monsoon, but not from an assessed source we can stand behind
Photos
Where it is
1.90668, 73.53976The pin is the island centroid from our geocoding, not the building — properties on the same island share it. Satellite imagery © Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics.