It has been an elasmobranch week at Bunaken. In particular our deep divers Danny and Rachel were lucky enough to have sharks and rays on almost every dive this past week. Danny even lucked out and had an encounter with a scalloped hammerhead at 50m.

All the action wasn’t happening down deep though, we had an unusual visit from a brown banded bamboo shark, which had found a nice hole to hide out in on Lekuan Dua. Also the usual suspects of white tips, black tips, eagle rays and the abundant blue spotted ribbon tail rays kept everyone happy.

Perhaps our good luck in shark sightings was due to the cold up wellings that we have been experiencing. The afternoons have brought with them a bit of wind which has resulted in some unusual currents and these have been accompanied by some thermoclines; dropping down to 21C when we saw the hammer but quite a few sites are now a chilly 25C- very unseasonal.

This week has also seen us joined by our new Dive Master Trainee, Guillermo. Guillermo has already spent a bit of time at our sister resort in Lombok and will continue his studies with us. Good luck Guillermo!