Rangali Madivaru

The name comes from the nearby island of Rangali and from "madi", which means ray in Dhivehi; the site is also called Manta Point and Hukuru Elhi Faru. It lies on a stretch of reef inside the wide Rangali Kandu channel, just south of Conrad Maldives Rangali, at the western edge of the South Ari Marine Protected Area. The reef forms a point near the channel entrance: to the north, a craggy wall full of cracks and crevices; to the south, a gentle slope that reaches a plateau used as a cleaning station. There are several cleaning stations along the long, steep reef, and it is possible to visit two or three of them in a single dive. In the South Ari region, during the dry northeast monsoon whale sharks tend to be seen more to the west, between the islands of Maamigili and Rangali, and during the wet southwest monsoon, more to the east, between Maamigili and Dhigurah.