This week, I moved locations to continue learning in Bunaken, and its beautiful coral walls and incredible diversity of marine species has blown me away. It’s impossible not to enjoy my divemaster training when the ocean world here provides such an impressive backdrop. My classroom is a vibrantly blue ocean meeting against seemingly endless walls…
There is much more to the spot-fin porcupine fish (Diodon hystrix) than those cute big eyes: with many defense mechanisms, porcupine fish are not so defenseless in Bunaken. Being related to the puffer fish they have similar techniques for fending off would be predators.
As Lalo proved it to Nick and Wilfried this week, it’s quite easy for our guides to find Whip Coral Shrimp in Bunaken. His keen eyes spotted one of the least common; the Dragon Shrimp (miropandalus hardingi) which is about 2cm long. Although it looks like the Zanzibar Whip Coral Shrimp (dasycaris zanzibarica) which has…
I have spent 7 weeks in this Bunaken paradise and it has been an amazing time! About a week or so ago I completed my Divemaster training with Two Fish Divers Bunaken. As I sit here and write this I can officially say that I am a PADI Divemaster.
Fish come in all shapes and sizes which is why diving in the coral triangle at a place like Bunaken is such a treat. Some species are in an order called tetradontiformes which groups together all the weird shaped fish like triggerfish; pufferfish and even the ocean sunfish (mola mola), but one of our favorites…
This week my Divemaster course included some environmental projects including a Project AWARE Dive Against Debris, and we even spotted a blue Ceratosoma Sinuatum or Miamira Sinuata during the dive. We often spot nudibranchs on Bunaken clean ups but this guy was a rare color and a treat to see.
Hi there! It’s Wilfried again. My DMT journey continues in Sekotong after my two weeks in Bunaken (Sulawesi). During the last two weeks, I’ve been in near the south Gili’s, where are located the South Lombok facilities of TwoFish. As a DMT, the major change is the fact that there is no swimming pool here: the…
We see so many anemonefish (clown fish) in Bunaken that it is hard to remember all of their names. Usually, we just say “we saw Nemo or his cousin”, but all the Bunaken anemone fish like clowning around!