If environmental predictions are correct, there may not be a Maldives in a hundred years time [AFP]

President Muhammad Nasheed, dressed in full scuba gear, held Saturday's 30 minute meeting at a depth of six metres just north of the capital Male.

Sitting round a horseshoe-shaped table, all but three of the 14-member cabinet took part in the meeting.

The Divers Association of Maldives (DAM) said the ministers trained over the past two months for the dive.

Event organisers said the ministers had signed their wetsuits and would be auctioning them on the protectmaldives.com website to raise money for coral reef protection in the atoll-chain.

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The Maldives, located southwest of Sri Lanka, has become a vocal campaigner in the battle to halt rising sea levels.

More than 80 per cent of the country's land, composed of coral  islands scattered some 850km across the equator, is less than one metre above sea level.

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