Simon is an avid photographer - Underwater, on land and in the Air. He's also pretty good at repairing things and getting new gadgets for the resort!
Following up to the earlier post, this afternoon I pitched the plucky newcomer against the old master. The Canon MP-E 65mm lens is pretty much the holy grail for macro photographers – it made me switch from Nikon to Canon years ago, and i’ve only just bought one now! The MP-E 65mm is capable of…
It has been a crazy few months for us recently. Obviously, we’ve had the busy season with lots of amazing critters – but we have also been doing some studying. Simon had studied the rEvo IANTD course over the summer, but has now added his Poseidon MK6 SSI Instructor certs. So, we can now offer…
We just took a very short family break to Disney Hong Kong for a few days, and when we arrived yesterday we were met by a bunch of friends from Reef Photo Video in the US, and a whole bunch of shipping that arrived in our absence. Obviously shipping things around in Indonesia is time…
Tom and Susan are going to Raja Ampat with us in 2014, aboard KM Black Manta. We’re heading out for 10 days from 14th February to the 23rd February 2014, visiting all the best spots on the way. We will try our best to avoid traveling for the sake of it, and will not waste…
Well, they are back. After a few reported sightings over the last few months where the Rhinopias has promptly disappeared afterwards, there finally appears to be one staying still for a while now. We are being tough on our rules about overcrowding and taking too many shots with this critter. We won’t give you 20mins…
Martin visited us last year and is a super enthusiastic photographer. He was always interested to try new things and i think you can see that in his gallery here. Martin got some great shots and we hope to see him again soon. His website is: www.bluevisions.eu
This summer we have taken our inventory of diving cylinders to over 200. We have added a whole bunch (4 dozen) of Aluminium 80’s to our existing inventory of 80’s and 100’s. We have also just added some other cylinders to fit in with our new tec outlook. We have added Aluminium 40cu ft…
We’ve started on our next diving adventure: Rebreathers and tec diving. We have a rEvo onsite already and have orders placed for AP Evolution+’s that will be here in a few months. We already have a nice stock of stage bottles and 2 & 3 litre pony cylinders, and of course, we have sorb and…
We’re pleased to announce that professional Mackerel photographer, Alex Tattersall has joined the judging panel for our December 2013 shootout. Alex has placed in the NHM / BBC wildlife photo competition, which is the pinnacle of Natural History photo competitions (aside from the underwater.kr one, of course). He is also the chief for Nauticam UK,…
The Month of May saw a few staff in and one out for us. We welcomed our old guide Aso back (he’s still bald), along with trying out frequent guest Mood as a Guest Relations Officer. 2 new girls in the Restaurant – Endang and Emelda. Endang and Emelda both speak quite good English take…