5 Rocks dive site (Rheeti Thila) is 5 seperate submerged rocks in South Ari Atoll is about 9.2km/5.75m north-east of LUX South Ari Atoll.
5 Rocks features magnificent corals, a series of fissures, caverns, overhangs and fun swimthroughs to a max depth of 30m/98f, and is known schools of sweatlips.
I thought it would be easier for you to read about The Maldive’s 5 Rocks dive site in a list, as follows:
Dive type: reef dive, pinnacle dive, with overhangs and swimthroughs and with mild to strong drift currents.
5 Rocks alternative name includes Rheeti Thila.
5 Rocks is a pinnacle split into five pieces.
The top of 5 Rocks pinnacle is roughly 12 metres (40 feet) deep below the surface.
The maximum depth of 5 Rocks dive site is around 30 metres (98 feet) deep on its southern side.
Dive site with beautiful vibrant coral life, pink gorgonian fans, tubastrea coral, whip corals, sponges, anemones and encrusting algae.
You’re likely to see a large variety of marine life on 5 Rocks dive site, including schools of sweetlips, fusiliers, red-toothed triggerfish, jack fish, frogfish, moray eels, grunts, bannerfish, trevallies, orange damsels, Napolean wrasse, scorpion fish, stingrays barracudas, white tip reef sharks and macro life including mantis shrimp and nudibranches in the holes and cracks of the pinnacle.
The dive site has many overhangs, ledges and swimthroughs to explore with soft corals, hards corals and gorgonian fans.
Where is 5 Rocks dive site?
5 Rocks dive site is on the south east of South Ari Atoll and roughly 9.2km/5.75m north-east of LUX South Ari Atoll and 4.4km/2.75miles ewast of Novas Maldives.
You can also use the first image on the page above to see the location of 5 Rocks dive site in relation to the other atolls of the Maldives, where its rough location is circled on the above Maldives atoll map.
5 Rocks dive site map
White Pearl liveaboard – image courtesy of Liveaboard.com
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”Whitepearl has now set the standard by which I will measure all future liveaboards. A few firsts, night diving with Sharks, at last my first Manta’, the ease and professional organisation on the boat, the calm leadership of Tony and the luxury of the boat.” Recommended for: The Crew, the diving, the food.
”Outstanding and unforgettable! Variety of dives are excellent on Central Atolls tour…mix of deep channels with strong currents and pelagics, sheltered reefs with vibrant corals and large schools of reef fish, stingray/shark feeding dives (insane!), manta night dive, wall dives, drift dives, and snorkelling with a whale shark to top it off. Truly amazing. Trips between dives to gorgeous island and a picture perfect sandbank plus a beach bbq party which the crew make very special. Early starts every day but then dives spaced out so plenty of sunbathing and relaxing time on surface intervals. Healthiest food I’ve ever had on a holiday! Good variety and all tasty. Daily room service and super attentive staff. Highly proficient dive staff. I had a junior suite and it was HUGE! I also went as a solo traveller expecting to share and ended up having it to myself. TV in room had screen cast not that I used it much… was never bored. Lived like a King! Multiple seating areas spread all over boat, could always find somewhere for solo time. I definitely recommend this boat and would go again in a heartbeat. Teseo dive director is kind, patient, works really hard to give you an amazing trip. Perfect person for the job and like a fish in the water! My ONLY criticism is the rental fins. They’re very flimsy and do not deliver powerful kicks. For most dives, fine, but there are strong currents on some and I was really having to exert myself to keep close to the group and my buddy. Not fun. I’m in OK fitness, deeply regretted not buying and bringing a good pair. If you do the south Atolls tour this is even more important, apparently that’s mostly channel dives. I did the Central Atolls tour 13-20 January 2024. Doesn’t affect my strong recommendation for this boat though.” Recommended for: Variety of dives, level of service from staff, comfort on board.
”Awesome unforgettable leaving planning and wishing to return. Manta Cleaning statio Stunning abundance and diversity of marine life The mall deviant cultural experience on the last night with the traditional dinner and gastronomic cuisine prepared for royalty.” Recommended for: The attention the guides placed on safetyThe mall deviant cultural experience on the last night with the traditional dinner and gastronomic cuisine prepared for royalty security of clients in the water during the dive and return to Dhoanni.
5 Rocks dive site price depends if you dive the site from a Maldives resort or from a Maldives Liveaboard. The price to dive 5 Rocks by Liveaboard starts as low as £147 (US$188) per day, which is an all-inclusive price for diving, board and meals. The cost of flights to The Maldives is extra.
Diving 5 Rocks AKA Hudhu Kuda Thila (HD) – South Ari Atoll, Maldives
Are there Sharks in 5 Rocks dive site?
You can sometimes see whitetip reef sharks and nurse sharks at 5 Rocks dive site.
Alternative names for 5 Rocks dive site
5 Rocks dive site is also known as Rheeti Thila.
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5 Rocks Dive Site Maldives (Rheeti Thila – South Ari Atoll)
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Article written by Russell Bowyer who has been a scuba diver since diving on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia in 1989. After his first dive he trained as a BSAC diver in the UK. He attained his Diver Leader certification with BSAC. He then went on to become a scuba diving instructor, teaching others how to dive and was voted as Diving Officer and Treasurer for the Saffron Walden BSAC club too. Russell has dived all over the world, including the UK, on liveaboards in the Red Sea, the Caribbean, South Africa and the USA. Russell is experienced in all dive types, including drift diving, deep dives that involved decompression stops and recreational dives too.
