There’s a group of cake urchins in our house reef in Amed. Contrary to what we can think Urchins are actually moving a lot, and these move together as a big group in the middle of a sandy bottom. We call them cake urchins (clypeasters) because of their pink/purple color which is kind of appealing…
Two Fish Divers Sanur had a facelift last month. The dive centre in Sanur is newly renovated with fresh paint in the offices, a brand new classroom and a dry room for equipment. In the new classroom, we teach all PADI courses from Scuba Diver to Instructor Development Courses. The classroom is equipped with air…
How to shower underwater? How get rid of those itchy parasites stuck around your gills? Or yesterday’s food from your teeth? While diving in Bali we see many fish getting a proper clean up provided by specialised cleaning fish and cleaning shrimps. Cleaning fish and shrimp hang out in cleaning stations and work from sunrise…
Frogfish (Antennariidae) is a particular hunt for experienced divers – it’s a bit like searching a gold nugget in the sand or a Pokemon to be more modern. The Frogfish we found in our house reef at Twofish Amed are tiny ones. If some of them (Giant frogfish) can reach a maximum size of around…
This week is Halloween and we often like to dress up like our favourite movie star, animal or superhero. But what if someone would be dressing up like you, forever. Is it Halloween or not? In the underwater world this is quite normal and known as mimicry. Many fish pretend to be other fishes to…
This week we welcomed a group of divers used to dive with Twofish and seeking for great muck diving in Amed. What is amazing in Amed is the actual diversity of diving we can offer: wrecks, coral reefs, muck and walls are all around and we can easily combine them or focus on only one…
Last week has been amazing for divers from Sanur in Nusa Penida! We spotted all the big stuff and more! Diving with Marco has been the peak of these days, with Threser sharks, Mola, Nemos, Manta Rays and Turtles, all in one day! I don’t think anyone has been that lucky ever on their first…
“It’s snowing pyramid butterflyfish” is what my student, Mokhtaria from France, shouted after we came up from her last advanced open water dive! She was beyond excited by the fish snow as she described it. With her 9th dive completed she has seen some incredible things here on Bunaken and she is very aware that…