Lots of scorpion leaf fish in all ranges of colours, eagle rays, giant trevellies, schools of tuna down in the deep plus crocodile fish galore!! We don’t see many normally but this week they have been out in abundance including 4 hanging out together at Barracuda point. Thanks to Jimmy our DMT for this great shot!…
We just had one of our Divemaster interns leave, Helen from Australia. She spent 4weeks with us in both Bunaken and Lembeh, and this is her diary. Week 1 First day of Divemaster Course and I’m amped! Wake up to 2 fun dives – awesome! That afternoon I sat down with my instructor and was…
Karen & Tom will be joining us in Lembeh for their 5th trip 4-11 November. Although they are keen muck-divers, they are dead keen to do some exploration diving as well. We are therefore opening an invitation to anyone else who also wants to join us! We will be running normal diving during this time,…
As part of Project Aware’s Debris Month of Action, our team in Bunaken took to the seas armed with trash bags and hauled in over 197kg of trash! Well done guys!! Visit our Facebook page to find out more about our conservation efforts in Bunaken. [slideshow]
We are really please to announce that our new swimming pool in Bunaken is now complete and ready for use! We started it in Jan with the digging and transport of materials, and it was finally finished on 27 July. We had an official opening by the local village head and community leaders such as…
Last week we undertook our deepest dive yet to 120m. One of our guests Iain visited us with his rebreather and decided to take advantage of the tec diving facilities offered by our sister company BunakenTec. These services include full support for trimix diving on both open circuit and rebreather, and paticipation in deep exploration…
We have been seeing loads of Blue Ring Octopus recently in Lembeh so we thought we would tell you a bit about them! Ecology There are possibly 10 different species of blue-ringed octopus but only 4 have been formally names and all are inhabitants of asian-pacific waters: Greater Blue-ringed Octopus (Hapalochlaena lunulata) Lesser Blue-ringed Octopus…
We are starting a new series of regular blogs from our DM Interns. The first is from Lewis, he is taking our 6-week Eco-Dm Internship in Bunaken & Lembeh. Well, where to begin?? Arrived on Lembeh to be welcomed by the friendly dogs that roam the resort, keeping guard and always looking for food. Followed…