Christmas has officially started for Two Fish Divers Bunaken with the blessing ceremony of the dive center and resort by the local church. For this important part of the year we invite all of the staff along with family members for a service along with local food, musical performances and dancing. What a great event…
The second week of my Divemaster training was already a bit more relaxed and yet very instructive. We repeated a few things like the skill circuit and practiced many new exercises. From deep dive, rescue training, search & recovery to dive site management and mapping project to only supposedly simple water skill exercises (like swimming,…
Tuna is on our mind this week, as we have made another visit to Ron’s point, where at around 30-40 meters deep, there is a shelf at which these giant silvery fish like to hang out. Unfortunately, it is becoming less and less common to pass large fish whilst diving as the demand for pelagic…
This week, we dived with return guest Mark in Candidasa and Padang Bai. We started off at Mimpang, the second dive was at Tepekong, and the third dive was at the famous muck diving site the Jetty in Padang Bai. A day with pelagics, muck and everything in between in Bali. On the first two…
This week has been more than just ‘fun dives’ as we have been teaching people how to save lives in Lembeh by becoming PADI Rescue Divers. The PADI Rescue Diver Course is a fantastic way to improve not only your diving ability and knowledge but it also improves your awareness to potential problems under the…
We saw dolphins in the bay during a surface interval this week! It was a bit after lunch time when a couple of fins just pierced the surface in front of our restaurant at TwoFish Amed. If fishermen usually see them off shore, it’s quite rare that dolphins are cruising that close from the shore…
The past few weeks have been exciting for Toby and Miranda as they were doing their PADI Junior Open Water Diver course with Two Fish Divers in Sanur. These young ocean enthusiasts did their course on Saturday mornings, because they have to go to school during the week. The first week was easy for Miranda…
Our first Truk Lagoon wreck diving trip has been simply two weeks of wreck diving heaven – with a few sharks, eagle rays and schooling tuna thrown in for good measure. Truk Lagoon in Micronesia is a diver’s paradise with 60 or so shipwrecks dotted around a handful of islands at depths ranging from 10…