Bunaken welcomes new dive team, Sam and Ilse. They got straight into the water to teach Johanna and Xi for their Discover SCUBA diving experience, they had a blast with loads of turtles, humphead parrotfish and giant puffers. Simone was excited to join us for her PADI rescue course taught by the amazing Dion and…
A huge pod of pilot whales showed up during a surface interval this week! Our divers had an amazing first dive at the Molas shipwreck and then that cool surprise. There were fins popping up everywhere! Thanks Simon for the picture…though it doesn’t do any justice as there is only one fin to see…haha! After…
Bunaken always has a nice surprise for you! 7 eagle rays spotted at the divesite Cela Cela by Markus at 50m was a bit special though! No pictures, unfortunately (I know it didn’t happen then!) but eagle rays are seen quite regularly around that area. Quite often they are seen in the shallow waters as…
This week we did our monthly ‘Dive Against Debris’ at our adopted dive site Muka Kampung in Bunaken. Muka means ‘in front of’, in Bahasa Indonesia, and ‘Kampung’ means village. So you guess right, this dive site is in front of the village. It is a beautiful wall with lots of soft and hard coral…
This week highlight at Two Fish: our first ever Underwater Dance Specialty was completed by one of our Dive Masters, under the close tutelage of dive guide Rolly. Several of our guests have also been inspired to train for the dance qualification, which requires the final exam piece recorded on video. A very busy week…
They say time flies when you’re having fun and it’s mad that I have just one week left on my Divemaster course. One of the tasks I’ve got left to do is to demonstrate the set of 24 skills, so yesterday it was back in the pool for a few hours of practice. We first…
Two Fish Bunaken was on fire this week! We had some amazing dawn dives, morning dives, afternoon dives, Mandarin dives and night dives, all on the same day. We saw big schools of trevallies, giant frogfish, barracudas, garden eels, devil fish, leaf fish, blue spotted stingrays, countless green and hawksbill turtles the size of small…
This week highlight at TwoFish: our Open Water Divers Course Claire and Petr saw a juvenile white tip shark on their very first open water dive! Swiftly followed by sighting an adult white tip on their second dive at Lekuan 3. A super sociable week this week. The camaraderie between divers has been excellent, with…