This week has been rather great in Amed, as we were surprised by a truly graceful Manta Ray during a dive at Pyramid, a coral reef, 5 minutes away from our Dive Resort by boat. A true surprise knowing we never see one of these beauties flying around Amed. The one we saw was a…
This week in Amed, Bayu and Baron, our incredible Dive Guides from Manado, found some more hidden underwater crawlers; this one is called the Crinoid Squat Lobster, a tiny crustacean captured by Samuel Wong, amateur photographer but also recently certified PADI Divemaster. Many can be found on the Local Dive sites; with a trained eye…
This week in Amed, we keep on adding some more Muck Dives discoveries and get to admire the Leaf Scorpionfish; a pretty fish with a weird shape that preys on shrimps, crabs and even smaller fish thanks to its venomous spines; a strong venom still considerably weaker than that of the stonefish. Just as many…
Behind the scenes we’ve had a busy couple of months technical diving in Bali and Lombok. At our Amed centre, we hosted our first DMT Tech internship, added gas blending facilities, taught just under 20 courses – and found time for a little bit of exploration as well. Divemaster Tech internship Two Fish offers a…
This week in Amed, we encountered the very in demand Mimic Octopus; a “must-have” subject for underwater photographers, our specialty here in Amed. It holds this name because of its ability to impersonate other local species by changing its skin color and texture and literally blend with its environment. All thanks to what is called the…
This week in Amed, our excellent PADI Divemaster trainee, Nathan Wong, managed to get a close-up picture of an Idiomysis. The good eye of our Dive Guide Dr Baron helped us find this very, but I mean, very tiny crustacean during a Muck Dive on our House Reef – right in front of the resort. Nathan…
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 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…