Maldives

Maldives

Maldives

living in the Maldives.

So, Maldives, beautiful place.

Maldives is a long archipelago.

And then the southernmost Maldives.

Maldives is still in the southwest monsoon.

Far north of Maldives, a bit later.

It's a widespread phenomenon throughout South Asia, including the Maldives.

It doesn't make sense. There is nothing for them in Maldives.

But in Maldives, no fresh water. So, what on Earth is going on?

Actually, I come from Britain, but I've been living in Maldives for 26 years now.

But if you're a marine biologist, Maldives is not such a bad place to be.

And in the Indian Ocean, some islands of the Maldives will disappear completely beneath the water.

We have blue whales in the waters around here, off Maldives, around the waters of India.

And the Maldives, and I'm sure some of you have been there so here is home.

In the Maldives now, in India there is plenty of water, so, dragonflies, yeah, of course.

And the first thing I did was started recording when they turned up in the Maldives.

If they pass the Maldives they might go and have a look, nothing there, they'll carry on.

The Maldives, as I'm sure you're aware, are a chain of islands off the southwest coast of India here.

The president of the Maldives conducted a mock cabinet meeting underwater recently to highlight the dire straits of these countries.

When I first went to the Maldives, dead keen on diving, spent as much of my time as I could in and under the water.

And I only stumbled on this because I was living in Malé, in Maldives for long enough for it to percolate into my brain that something rather special was going on.