The Emperor Shrimp added a little Royalty to Lembeh this week. These colourful little crustaceans can be found usually walking around on the back of large sea slugs – but sometimes they choose other creatures as hosts – even Nudibranchs! They have a Symbiotic Relationship with their hosts – in this case a Commensal Symbiosis…
This week in Amed…we spotted one of the cutest thing ever, a Juvenile Yellow Boxfish, during an exploration dive with our PADI Divemaster’s trainees on the house reef. On our way up from a Deep Dive, we managed to cross this little fella; and by “Little”, I mean “tiny”; this one was about 1 cm.…
This weeks our guests were fascinated by a beautiful lionfish that was flying over the reef of the North part of Nusa Penida. Normally they are hiding in little caves under rocks and barely move but our guests Saskia and Sarah from Germany had the pleasure to watch the little creature for a couple of minutes…
It was a very nice week with some excellent sightings of leaf scorpion fish at Lekuan II in Bunaken. We also were quite busy with courses. Julia & Malin did their open water course with Markus and had a really good laugh. They make the perfect buddy team! Bobo explored scuba diving for the first…
This past 2 weeks we have accomplished a couple tasks for our training. The tasks included the 24 skill circuit, mapping project of the house reef, sidemount diving, twinset diving, guiding divers, Samuel assisting the open water course, Nathan assisting the Advance open water course, and divemaster final exams. I was amazed that we could…
Peacock Mantis Shrimp love to show off and this week was no exception! This little one was standing to attention for our guest photographer, Victor, to give him the best shot! There are over 400 different species of Mantis Shrimp. Also known as the Harlequin Mantis Shrimp, Clown Mantis Shrimp and Painted Mantis Shrimp, these…
This week we did some more practicing in guiding and assisting diving courses but this week’s highlight was definitely the reef clean up, the underwater equipment exchange and the mapping project for the dive master. Monday we did a reef clean up as past of the Dive Master “project aware” workshop! We took 2 smaller…
This week in Amed….we came across many Banded Coral Shrimps as we did a few interesting muck dives in between Tulamben and Amed in search of macro creatures. Thanks to Keith, the photographer behind the camera, who also gave us many of his other pictures. Very common around the Amed area, the omnivorous Banded Coral…