This week in Bunaken… Divers have been spoiled this week with plenty of encounters of large game fish. Schools of big eye trevallies and yellow fin tunas have cruised by as well as massive dog tooth tunas, great barracudas and giant trevallies. All this activity has also made the reef fish more on the edge and it’s a quite impressive thing to watch when hundreds of red fang trigger fish get startled and in unison swoops down to the reef with a big ‘SWOOOSH’. (Photo: Dom Jeanes)

During a surface interval the divers onboard Blazing got proof that there are even larger game fish in the waters around Bunaken; a massive sailfish jumped cleaned out of the water over and over again. For a large fish to jump like that we could only speculate what could have been chasing it…

The resort have been busy over the last week and with that we’ve also had a few courses. There have been several new divers proudly completing their PADI Open Water courses and falling in love with the underwater world.

Ljubisa and Aileen from the Netherlands are here to complete their PADI Master Scuba Diver certification between their stays at Two Fish in Bunaken and Lembeh. Here in Bunaken they did the PADI Enriched Air Specialty as well as PADI Night Specialty. They truly enjoyed the night dives and were amazed with all the crazy and wicked crabs and shrimps that came crawling out when the darkness fell. During the last night dive there were heaps of tiny little shrimps in the water and they were attracted to the torch light. In the end there were so many around Aileen’s torch that she thought her batteries were dying cause barely no light could penetrate the huge amount of shrimps hanging around her torch! With that much tasty shrimps they started to worry about what slightly larger fish might come in for a night snack…