Where: Kuda Giri wreck, South Male Atoll, Maldives Why: Your friends can actually be in the water to share the experience Danger factor: 3
"It's like a little ghost town," says Alex Voyer, freediving instructor of eight years, of Kuda Giri, an upright wreck 31m deep off the South Male Atoll in the Maldives. "I love this wreck because I imagine all the people onboard in its past life."
Voyer favours the site for the reasons intermediate freedivers should; the water averages 28ºc, the visibility is 15m and there's plenty to aim a camera at. Whitetip sharks, barracuda, turtles and schools of glassfish are common. Says Voyer, "Now, with all these fish living inside, the wreck is about rebirth."
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