Biodiversity - Trip Reports
12 Days Diving Indonesia Endless Wonders: Sea Kraits, Pygmy Seahorses & Mantas
At Manuk, a volcanic island in the Banda Sea, we dropped into a dive where everything was in motion. Chinese sea kraits were hunting – slipping between coral heads, diving into crevices, surfacing for air, then heading straight back down. Bluefin trevally followed close behind, using the snakes like a moving search party. Whenever a […]
16 Days Across 5 Seas: Raja Ampat to Alor – An Epic 1000-Mile Dive Adventure”
This super special trip took us from Raja Ampat, through the vast Banda Sea and the Forgotten Islands, all the way to Alor and Maumere over the course of 16 days and over a 1000 nautical miles of navigation across 5 different seas. We started our journey on a high note in Raja Ampat with […]
Surprises In the Sea
From East Flores to West Papua, 16 days diving walls, reefs, slopes, pinnacles and crossing four different seas – that’s what the crossing trip is all about. From the tiniest Pygmy Seahorses to giant majestic Oceanic Manta Rays, Chinese Sea Snakes, Dolphins, Frogfishes, Sharks and schooling fish life – “biodiversity” topside and underwater is what […]
Diving At The Ring Of Fire
Eastern Indonesia and the area between Bali to Papua is also know as “The Ring of Fire”. Famous for lots of volcanic activities which have created some unique underwater seascapes and inhabiting marine life. The Banda Sea is famous for steep walls covered in soft corals, sponges and sea fans. Warm, clear blue waters full […]
From Sea Snakes And Scorpionfish
From Raja Ampat in West Papua to Maumere in East Flores: over 14 days of diving, over 1,000 nautical miles, 5 different seas. Those are just technicalities about our “Biodiversity Special” or “Crossing Trip” but what does the reality behind that look like? After a few days diving in the Misool Area, it is eventually […]
Delectable Anemones
While on our most epic crossing trip, where Mermaid II sails from the notorious Raja Ampat though the Banda Sea and into Flores’s east coast port Maumere, we had some truly awesome encounters. From a small group of very shy scalloped hammerhead sharks, schooling sea snakes (no joke), to a riot of Indonesia’s best critters. […]
The Right Mix
What I like most about our “special trips” is the diversity of dive sites, marine life and land excursions – it’s just a perfect mix. Ten days of diving and over 500 nautical miles later, we can look back to diving sandy slopes hunting for critters and creatures, an old ship wreck which sank in […]
Mountains Of Fire
Our usual Raja Ampat route never gets boring but guests as well as dive crew are even more excited for this next trip: diving the so called “Ring Of Fire” means starting off with the best of Raja Ampat via Manuk Island and the Bandas with our final destination Ambon, which is famous for muck […]
Special Finds
Indonesia is home to some of the most unusual and rarest marine creatures on earth, but this doesn’t mean they are always easy to find. Creatures like the much sought yet and seldom seen rhinopias have some of the most adapted camouflage in the underwater world. The rhinos that dwell in the smooth rocks have […]
Epic Eclipse
Diving pristine coral reefs in Raja Ampat, exploring pinnacles and encountering Hammerhead Sharks and a gigantic school of Chevron Barracudas in Halmahera, hunt for critters such as Frogfish and Mandarinfish in Lembeh. Sounds like a dream come true? Let’s top it off with a total solar eclipse! Leaving port in Sorong, our GPS coordinates were […]