Tiger Harbour

The site was initially named Tiger Zoo and is now called Tiger Harbour. The predictable presence of tiger sharks close to the harbour led to the opening of the first dive centre in 2013, offering encounters with them. A local, Nasheed Ahmed, known as Lonu, taught himself to scuba dive and jumped into the water at the edge of the harbour to see the tiger sharks; he found dozens of them, many of them pregnant females, on the sandy rubble outside. He founded Shark Island Dive, the first dive centre on the island. In December 2023, 11 registered dive centres offered tiger shark dives there.

Dive centres have identified 248 tiger sharks at this site alone; a typical dive has 6 to 8, and up to 15 or 18. Besides the tiger sharks, the site has giant trevallies, rainbow runners, barracudas, jack fish, flounders, moray eels, leaf fish and lion fish, with little or no coral.

The site is located in the middle of the boat channel at the harbour's entrance, with boats moving above divers, which violates the Maldives diving regulations (Section 10:2a). Operators suggested the former channel opening "Rasgefanno neru" as an alternative. The busy season is usually from December to May, when boat traffic above the divers tends to be constant.