Vakkaru Maldives
Its house reef, measured from satellite and scored Average on the Maldives Index — beside the guests’ own verdict.
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House reef & underwater
Vakkaru Maldives · Baa Atoll · a house reef
Average house reef
Reef Conditions · top 91% of the 297 reefs we have measured
Shore entry Measured
~288 m across the lagoon to the drop-off — a genuine swim, not a wade.
Living cover Measured
About 22% of the mapped reef reads as living coral or algae from satellite.
Heat history Measured
Peak heat stress 3.48 DHW since the imagery, no bleaching alert on record.
From satellite this reef reads Average — roughly 22% 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).
Reef manta ray
Overwhelmingly a southwest-monsoon animal here, on the atoll’s eastern flank. Over 95% of acoustic detections at eastern Baa fell in the southwest monsoon, with near-zero activity in the northeast. Across more than a thousand survey days at Hanifaru, feeding was recorded on roughly 62% of them. Hanifaru alone accounted for 64% of detections in its site cluster.
Reef manta ray — the feeding window
Within the season, the timing is tidal rather than merely monthly. Mass feeding is driven by zooplankton concentrated by a back-eddy that Hanifaru’s particular reef shape creates, so spring tides around the full and new moon are the windows that matter. The largest “cyclone” feeding events happen only a handful of times a season.
Whale shark
Feeds here in the southwest monsoon alongside the mantas, drawn by the same plankton — but in far smaller numbers than South Ari: on the order of 95 sightings of 53 individuals across a decade.
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
5.13343, 72.91038The pin is the island centroid from our geocoding, not the building — properties on the same island share it. Satellite imagery © Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics.