Mike and his daughter Amelia are from Seattle, US and they stayed with us in Feb 2008. Mike thought diving with Two Fish was “double the value”, and he wrote a “trip report” on our guest book. You can read his report on the Two Fish Guestbook

They both really enjoyed the diversity of Bunaken and Lembeh, and Amelia had such a great time that she’s coming back for sure! “I wanted to thank you and tina for the wonderful stay… I will definitely return and send people your way! The crew is incredible; I want to return just so we can catch up on our scrabble game and singing bad 90’s pop songs! I felt at home in many ways. It’s amazing how such a short time can prove to be so genuine and lasting! Now I just need to figure out how to come back and stay longer next time!”

Mike and Amelia sent us some of their pictures, check them out on Mike & Amelia’s photos on Ringo.

www.whalesrevenge.com is trying to get a million people to sign a petition to stop whaling.

Please tell as many people as you can about this website, it would be a great help.

Thanks for your support and remember to sign the petition. We have already signed the petition to save the whales and we hope that you will too.

Sign the petition here!

Dave Stephens is from Perth, Oz, and lives and works in Halmerhera, Molucca. He left us on 29 Dec to spend New Year at home in Perth.

He took some great photos and kept everyone amazed with his slide shows in the evenings.

Thanks for spending XMas with us Dave, and hope you had a great New Year. Hope to see you in Bunaken or Lembeh in 2008!

Check out his photos at Dave on Flickr

We just heard that one of our instructor candidates has landed a new job, congratulations Pim! (seen in photo with Rebecca).

Pim was on our very first IDC in Sept 2007, and will be resigning from his job in Holland to start a new career in diving on 1 Jan 2008. We wish him the best of luck.

He has sent us some of his photos on Flickr:

Underwater pictures of Bunaken & Lembeh.
Pictures of IDC Bunaken Sept 2007.

We just received news that one of our guests Mark Thorpe won a first prize at the 34th World Festival of Underwater Images in Antibes. Congratulations Mark!

Mark produced a short underwater film from the video footage he took when he stayed with us in Lembeh in July 2007 (click here to see Marks previous blog). As Mark said in his email to us, “My short film called The Majesty of Muck must have struck a nerve with some of the judges as it was awarded the Prix du Public.”

Mark sent us this picture of him with his award at the prize giving ceremony, standing on the right with overall category Gold Palme winner Danny van Belle.

Mark will be sending us a dvd so guests can see his work when they visit us, and you can see more of his work on his own blog by clicking here.

Marije has managed to sort out her pics from her Sep/Oct 2007 trip:

Bunaken 2007
Lembeh 2007

If other guests wish to send links for pictures and blogs, please send them to Twofish@TwoFishDivers.com.

We just received these new links:
* Dave Martin’s trip report of when he stayed and dived with us in Sept 2007.
* Marije’s Blog of her stay with us in Oct 2007 (in Dutch). Marije also sent her links for her pictures when she visited us in 2005 and 2006: Bunaken 2005, Bunaken 2006, and Lembeh 2006

If other guests wish to send links for pictures and blogs, please send them to Twofish@TwoFishDivers.com.

We just received some great pics from Yorgos, a profesisonal photographer from Greece.

Yorgos visited us for the second time in July/Aug 2007 and made some amazing photos.

Check out his site on Yorgis under Bunaken.

Congratulationds to Marije from Holland who became our sceond ever Master Scuba Diver (MSD)!

Marije stayed with us for 3 weeks and completed her Rescue Course and 4 specialties - Deep Diver, Night Diver, Wreck Diver and Search & Recovery Diver (she already had Nitrox), and with 350 dives she was definitely over the minimum limit of 50 dives required for the MSD.

Whilst she was here she also did 25 fun dives and took some amazing pictures. We hope to have a link to her blog soon, so check back again.

Following on from the first ever IDC on Bunaken, PADI held the first ever PADI Instructor Exam (IE) 18-20 September 2007 in Gran Puri, a hotel in Manado City.

There were 6 candidates - 4 from Two Fish Divers and 2 from Eco Divers - and we would like to say thanks to PADI and examiner Rob Scammell for supporting the area by holding the IE.