Pelagic Divers Fuvahmulah

This Shark Awareness Day, we celebrate a historic milestone: the first tiger sharks in the Maldives sampled for long-term scientific research.

This marks the beginning of STRIPE, our Shark Tissue Research on tiger sharks.

Before we can understand how our presence affects these sharks, we need to understand the sharks themselves.
Through non-lethal tissue sampling and long-term monitoring, this project will help answer fundamental questions:

Who are these sharks, and how are they connected genetically?
What do they feed on, and how does provisioning influence their diet?
What is their health status?
How vulnerable is this population?
How does provisioning shape their behaviour, ecology, and long-term future?

By combining genetics, diet analysis, health indicators, and ecological data, STRIPE aims to create one of the most comprehensive long-term datasets on tiger sharks in the Indian Ocean and investigates how tourism provisioning influences the ecology of Fuvahmulah’s tiger shark population.

Protecting them means understanding how our actions shape their future.

Huge thanks to all our amazing collaborators, sponsors and scientific advisors who make this project possible!

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Available for both Tiger scuba & freedive

STRIPE: Shark Tissue Research for Integrative Population Ecology 🦈🧬

How can a single tissue sample provide multiple insights into shark biology and conservation?

We are excited to share our new project STRIPE, where we collect small, non-lethal tissue samples from tiger sharks in Fuvahmulah to investigate their population structure, connectivity, diet and health.

To launch the project, we’d love to invite everyone to our workshop on Monday, 13th July 2026, where we’ll introduce the project, explain the different analysis and demonstrate our biopsy sampling methods.

Interested in joining our fieldwork over the coming weeks? Come along to the workshop at APEX Hotel or send us a message - we’d love to have you involved!

📆: Monday, 13th July 2026
⏱️: 7pm
📍: APEX Hotel, Fuvahmulah Maldives

The batfish followed us our whole dive. The West Side is pure magic.

Meet the ballerinas of the ocean: Oceanic Manta Rays

Know your shark dorsal fin edition.

These shots are all about the connection. It’s one thing to see an apex predator in the wild, it’s another to have the coexistence frozen in time.

Book your professional photo and video shoots on your next Tiger Dive with us. Shoots are available for both scuba and freediving, and even if you’re snorkeling viewing sharks from the surface.

Pressure drops, heart rate slows, and somehow it’s the most alive you’ll ever feel 🌊

A few of our favorite photos recently

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