When diving in Indonesia it’s pretty much guaranteed that you will encounter numerous species of pufferfish. Pufferfish are one of the cutest fish but they are also one of the deadliest in the ocean. Read on to find out more… Species: There are more than 120 known species of pufferfish worldwide, many of which can…
This week a few bottlenose dolphins were spotted on a dive on Bunaken! This is only the second time this year, that we witnessed this rare sighting of dolphins during one of our dives. Our lucky pair of divers, Yvette and Riammi with their dive guide Egen saw 3 beautiful bottlenose dolphins fly past the…
In Tulamben we often find a school of fish. This school of fish always swim in circles, but why? And who decides in which direction they swim? There are two types of groups of fish, schools and schoals. Schools are highly organised groups of fish, while schoals is a loosely aggregated group of fish. Some…
There are plenty of weird and wonderful creatures lurking in the waters of the Lembeh Strait but it is the Hairy Monsters in Lembeh which catch a lot of peoples attention. It is commonly known that if something under the water is hairy then that makes it special. There are a few creatures which feature…
This week we had the pleasure to show some beautiful Harlequin Shrimps to some of our Singaporean guests in the site called Seraya. A group of seventeen divers from Singapore joined TwoFish Amed this weekend for two days of diving in Tulamben. The objective was clear: “spot stuff”! Problem is, if I can say this way,…
One of my all time favourite fish is the goatfish, it is therefore perfect that we can find them everywhere while diving from Sanur, at all our dive sites! Every time I see goatfishes they make me smile! This week we saw many goatfishes, along with Manta rays, a nurse shark, a massive tuna and…
If you’ve been diving for a while you may have come across the term ‘Muck Diving‘. But what actually IS Muck Diving? When people talk about diving, most of the time your mind goes to lovely clear blue water, beautiful coral and turtles. However when you put the word ‘muck’ in front of it it…
One benefit of seing a giant moray (Gymnothorax javanicus) and any moray (Mureanidae) actually, at the hunt is that they are swimming in open water. If a moray could be considered ugly by some divers when it is just getting sheltered on the rocks or under corals, it is actually pretty graceful when swimming, ondulating…