Trip Reports

If you think Raja Ampat is a destination only for scuba diving you better think again ‘cos what you can find in the very shallows of this part of the World is something absolutely unreal! West Papua is One Coral Heaven for snorkelers and free divers. Pristine hard corals, Sea fans sticking out of the […]

From the volcanic sands of Lembeh to the pristine reefs of Raja Ampat through some untouched & undiscovered sites in Halmahera. 3 amazing destinations in one go. You already know that you are going to have an awesome journey when the trip kicks off with a Wonderpus and a Flamboyant cuttlefish right from the first […]

Raja Ampat is apart of the greater Bird’s Head Seascape region, which also includes Cenderwasi Bay and Triton Bay. Raja Ampat however hosts the largest biodiversity of reef fish species and coral in the world. Raja Ampat alone is home to over fifteen-hundred different species of fish and a large variety of sharks and rays, […]

3 different seas, 12 days of diving, 800 Nautical miles of navigation. A crossing from Raja Ampat to Lembeh Strait with an adventurous stopover in Halmahera! It’s quite fascinating how diverse Indonesia can be. Both on land and underwater these sceneries can dramatically change within a few hours of navigation. The transition of pristine reefs […]

Mangroves, which can be found throughout the tropics, play an extremely vital role for the ocean’s delicate ecosystem. Their unusual root system not only act as a nursery for juvenile fish, sharks, and rays but also function as a natural scrubber for carbon and other toxins in the ocean. Mangroves also happen to offer some […]

Raja Ampat is a massive area with over six-hundred islands and occupying forty-thousand square kilometers in the heart of the coral triangle. With so many islands in such a large area, you could easily spend an entire trip in just one area and not dive in the same place twice. However, with so many unique […]

Raja just seems to keep serving us a buffet of incredible dives. However, it was quite clear which dive site was the favorite as the guests aboard Mermaid II kept asking for more, more, more! Airborek Jetty, it is truly a wide angle and macro paradise. Airborek is a small inhabited island that sits smack […]

No matter how many times we dive in Raja Ampat, we simply don’t get tired of it! This is one of the only places left on the planet where the Wordl’s largest marine biodiversity comes together. Coral reefs growing fast, schools of fish getting larger each time and rich plankton flowing in the water with […]