This week a few bottlenose dolphins were spotted on a dive on Bunaken! This is only the second time this year, that we witnessed this rare sighting of dolphins during one of our dives. Our lucky pair of divers, Yvette and Riammi with their dive guide Egen saw 3 beautiful bottlenose dolphins fly past the…
Week 1 of my Divemaster training in Bunaken completed, and what a week! I chose Bunaken for its famous wall dives and chilled island vibes and it certainly has delivered. During the week, the centre has still been getting alot of visitors, even for low season! This gave me lots of opportunities to assist on…
Training PADI divemasters has been on our minds over here on Bunaken. We had the pleasure of finishing off Vilia’s divemaster training and turning her into a fine PADI divemaster. Vilia lives in Jakarta and loves to dive in her free time, what better way to escape the city and get to dive every day!…
The third week of DMT experience has been amazing! With the swim tests and skill circuit out of the way, I have been able to turn my attention to more student and customer-facing activities. I started with assisting Ilse with her Open Water Course (OWC) student, Thijs, who was visiting from the Netherlands. The…
Discover SCUBA Diving is a PADI program during which the participant gets to experience what it’s like to dive whilst being closely supervised by one of our PADI instructors. The program appeals especially to guests who may not have enough time during their visit to Bunaken in order to complete the open water diver course…
Turtle city would be a pretty accurate name to describe Bunaken island and if we had to rename the island this would be it. It is truly astonishing just how many turtles we see here. I believe that throughout the 2018 dive season there has not been one guest that stayed with us, that did…
A thresher shark sighting has been the talk of the week here in Bunaken. Some extremely lucky divers have had the chance to observe this beautiful shark up close and personal as it passed by within arms reach. Though it was around for We are very pleased that our return guests Darren and Chris from…
A wreck dive is not so common around Bunaken as the walls tend to drop to depths way beyond the recreational dive limit. Any wreck that may exist around our island would be too deep to explore. Though this week we have return guests Chris and Darren from the UK in house, who have visited…