Week one of my Divemaster course is already behind me, which feels incredibly surreal. The jet lag induced by two days of travel has left me in a mental fog this week, but it is slowly lifting to reveal the beautiful surroundings on this island. Being here with my younger brother, Colin, has also been…
One of the great things about diving in Lembongan is that when you are doing a course such as Advanced Navigation, like Molly and Richard completed in Crystal Bay, is that you can find ‘Alien like’ creatures, such as the Cuttlefish! Cuttlefish belong to the class Cephalopoda, which also includes squid, octopuses, and nautiluses. Cuttlefish…
New island, new dive shop, new dive sites, new instructors, new accommodation! After two weeks placid Bunaken island, Nusa Lembongan seems to me a bustling place with lots of dive operations and boats, many restaurants, cafés and bars and tourists from all over the world. My family has returned to Germany and I’m continuing with…
Usually, it’s the certified divers or our guides and Instructors that are the ones telling us about what their favorite aquatic creature is or what they saw during the week in Nusa Lembongan. But this time we asked one of our Open Water students Elisa, what was her favorite fish, and she told us that…
Everybody graduated! Eight afternoons in the Sanur training pool doing skills, learning about equipment, buoyancy and fish identification, the kids from Sanur International School finished their first dive training! During the last session we were diving with ducks in the Sanur training pool… Well, rubber ducks… A hide and seek game with an increased level…
We are actively involved in the professional part of the dive industry and have just finished our May IDC at our location in Nusa Lembongan. I staffed the Course Director Bas Van Riemsdijk and seven candidates Podge, Angi, Bo, Chris, Andreas, Tom and Marina. It was a lot of fun and life-changing for everyone. They…
Week two of my Dive Master Training lies behind me. So much to learn and think about! Carrying tanks and dive equipment to and from the boat, setting up dive gear for guests, having first attempts of dive guiding, developing own dive skills … it is challenging but also lots of fun. One of the…
Usually at this time of year the water begins to get colder and the nutrient rich currents bring to Lembongan megafauna like the Mola Ramsayi. This week the Mola was seen by our guests Alex and Richard, who were here diving with us for 5 days, and on their last day of diving they were…