{"data":{"slug":"vaavu","name":"Vaavu Atoll","alternativeNames":["Felidhu","Felidhoo Atoll"],"region":"Central","brief":"Vaavu (Felidhu) sits at the eastern edge of the central Maldives, less than 70 kilometres south of Male and accessible by a 75 to 90 minute speedboat from Velana. The atoll is sparsely populated (one inhabited island, Fulidhoo, plus a handful of resort islands) and structurally dive-led, anchored by the Alimatha jetty night-shark dive and Fotteyo Kandu, consistently ranked among the country's strongest channel drift dives.","transferFromMale":"75 to 90 min speedboat from Velana International, around-the-clock schedule on the operator side; public ferry to Fulidhoo (just over an hour) for the local-island route.","dominantResortStyle":"Italian-market dive-focused mid-luxury (Alimatha, Dhiggiri under Diamonds Resorts), plus liveaboard hub status for the central-atolls dive circuit.","resortCountApprox":3,"signature":"Alimatha jetty night dive (resident nurse shark, blacktip and whiptail ray aggregation) and Fotteyo Kandu channel drift dive (grey reef, whitetip, schooling trevally) are the structural draws. Visibility data data-assets/dive-visibility.json. Cross-references: [Alif Dhaal whale-shark dive route](/atolls/alif-dhaal) for the central-Ari neighbour, [Meemu Atoll dive-led setting](/atolls/meemu) for the southern peer cluster, and [Six Senses Laamu marine-biology programme](/resorts/six-senses-laamu) for the dive-led southern luxury alternative; [South Malé transfer setting](/atolls/south-male) covers the transfer-route comparison.","status":"full","lastVerified":"2026-05-14","canonicalUrl":"https://www.maldivesidylls.com/atolls/vaavu","quickAnswer":"Vaavu (Felidhu) sits at the eastern edge of the central Maldives, less than 70 kilometres south of Male and accessible by a 75 to 90 minute speedboat from Velana. The atoll is sparsely populated (one inhabited island, Fulidhoo, plus a handful of resort islands) and structurally dive-led, anchored by the Alimatha jetty night-shark dive and Fotteyo Kandu, consistently ranked among the country's strongest channel drift dives. Transfer from Malé: 75 to 90 min speedboat from Velana International, around-the-clock schedule on the operator side; public ferry to Fulidhoo (just over an hour) for the local-island route..","nextRefresh":"2026-08-12","author":"cartography-desk","editor":"linus-halberg"},"_meta":{"attribution":"Maldives Idylls, an independent editorial guide to the Maldives. Cite the source URL.","license":"Editorial content, free to cite with attribution to the source URL. Not licensed for model training (see /robots.txt, /privacy).","source":"https://www.maldivesidylls.com/atolls/vaavu","lastVerified":"2026-05-14"}}