International Clean-up Day 2009

On 19 September all our guests and diving crew participated in this event by going to clean up a part of the reef on Bunaken Island. We went to the base of the jetty next to Bunaken Village, and everyone dived or snorkeled for rubbish for about 2 hours.

The jetty is large and extends out from the island, out over the coral wall. We found alot of trash on the reef flat and in the shallows to 5m – in total we collected over 22 bags of trash that weighed a total of almost 900kg!

In the evening we  also presented the PADI Coral Reef Conservation that was presented by our 3 IDC candidates.

Thanks to all our guests and staff, what a great day!!! Check out our clean-up pictures on Flickr.

IDC Bunaken starts

Our IDC started at the beginning of this week. We have three candidates – Rod and Gina, and one of our local dive guides Dion – and they are being very spoilt with the services of both Course Director Brendon and Staff Instructor Tina!

Tec Diving starts on Bunaken

This week Nigel started his Tec Deep Diver diving course. This is probably the first Tec course ever to be held in the area, and our aim is to explore the deeper caves & crevices of the islands at the 50-70m level. If there is colder water then there may be bigger fish! Watch this spot!!

Check out more Tec pics on Two fish Tec on Flickr or Two Fish Tec on Facebook page

Videos of Bunaken & Lembeh

Professional videographer Nick Hope has visited us 3 or 4 times over the last few years and has hundreds or hours of video footage.

Nick has taken a break from diving in order to try and get more of his video edited & published, “I’m sitting on a mountain of good footage that hasn’t seen the light of day yet. For example all my underwater HD footage from my last trip to Two Fish, which may well be my best work. Likewise years of Thailand/Myanmar footage and footage from last year’s trip to Fiji and Tonga.”

He has just about finished his videos that he made while diving with us and has posted them onto the web. Check out:

• Bunaken/Manado videos

• Lembeh Strait videos

Enjoy! You can see more of Nicks video’s on his Bubblevision web site.

New fish has arrived!

Zack was born at 12.55am on 21 Aug 2009, Tina & son are doing very well. Check out some photos of Zack at New fish has arrived