Plassering
Key Information
| 0.05 km2 | MARINE AREA |
| 0.05 km2 | TOTAL AREA i |
Boundary: Maldives Environment Protection Agency (Unmodified)
1.0
January 2023
Feedback and Data Requests
Hensikt
To protect the 'Maldives Victory,' an 83-metre-long cargo ship that hit the Male’ Atoll Hulhule’ Reef and sank southwest of that reef on 23 February 1981 and has become an ‘artificial’ reef. Many fish species inhabit it. At a depth of 33 meters, the wreck is very rich in marine life. Various species of corals, batfish, yellowback fusilier, and groupers, as well as tortoises and turtles, including protected species, have been recorded here.
Species of Concern: corals, batfish, yellowback fusilier, groupers, tortoises, sea turtles
Regulations Summary
Begrensninger
Prohibited activities in this area:
1. Taking rocks, sand, corals and gravel from this area.
2. Littering.
3. Land reclamation and dredging.
4. Introducing any kind of new life to the area.
5. Aquaculture / Mariculture activities.
6. Anchoring.
7. Feeding any kind of living thing including fish and birds.
8. Fishing of any kind.
9. Removing anything from, or adding anything to, or doing anything to damage the flooded ‘Maldives Victory’ shipwreck.
Tillatt
Activities allowed in this area:
1. Swimming, diving and snorkeling.
2. Conducting research, only with special permission under a prescribed principle.