Photo by Rantje Allen
Photo by William Tan
Photo by Rantje Allen
Photo by William Tan
Photo by Rantje Allen
The location crew for Indonesia’s Trans 7 TV’s weekly series Jejak Petualang(Steps of the Adventurer) spent about a week in Gorontalo shooting for upcoming episodes. Among their adventures was a day of scuba diving the biodiversity waters with Miguel’s Diving. Series hostess Medina Kamil enjoyed touring the multiple pinnacles of Sentinels dive site and even spotted one… Continue Reading
Manado-based marine biologist Sebastian from Germany got his first look at the biodiversity found underwater in Gorontalo yesterday. Miguel’s Diving staff was able to show him some of our endemic fishes and new shrimp discoveries. What made the biggest impression on him was the dense and diverse hard coral colonies that are a hallmark of… Continue Reading
The current edition of Asian Diver magazine contains a review of our new book Gorontalo: Hidden Paradise, which details and portrays the beautiful underwater environment here. We at Miguel’s Diving have yet to get our hands on a copy but eagerly listened to excerpts read over the phone. Most newsstands and books shops regionally should carry… Continue Reading
Yesterday’s diving had so many fish as to make divers dizzy! Visibility hovered around 25 meters and seas were extremely flat. Seeing a pair of huge Napolea.n wrasses swimming together was a special highlight of the day. Denis from the USA says, “Now I know what you mean by biodiversity!”
A review of our book Gorontalo: Hidden Paradise appears in the current edition of Australasia Scuba Diver (issue 6 / 2006). In his article entitled “The Power of Three,” Editor David Espinosa says that photographers William Tan, Stephen Wong, and Takako Uno “have accomplished is more than just create a masterpiece that would be one of the crown… Continue Reading
Time has taken its toll on some of the largest attractions in Gorontalo. The dozens of Foxtail colonial tunicates, featured in our new book Gorontalo: Hidden Paradise, have been swept away during the half year of rough weather that hits our area during off-season. Most of these streamers were almost 1.5 meters long. New colonies are growing… Continue Reading
One of our November guests, Jovin of Singapore, has posted a new thread about her dive trip to Gorontalo. Some of her great pictures taken in this hidden paradise are also available to view. You don’t have to be a Scubaboard member to access these links, just click the highlighted words in the text above.
Diving in Gorontalo is indeed an adventure as divers found this week. In addition to our regular list of marine marvels, we managed to find and photograph too many ghost pipefish to remember and two pairs of exceptional Ambon scorpionfish(Pteroidichthys amboinensis). Even the extremely rare and tiny Teddy bear crab made a mercurial appearance before somersaulting… Continue Reading
The coral wall at Honeycomb was streaming with ribbons of blue and yellow in the morning light.Thousands of Blue and Yellow fusiliers (Caesio teres) enveloped divers in Gorontalo this morning. Sometimes mixed with other fusilier species, these brightly colored fish poured down the wall then circled around for another sweep mid-wall. Evidently in search of food, these fish… Continue Reading
Divers enjoying pre-season diving in Gorontalo today got a glimpse of the result of months of bad weather that prevents people from fishing. We saw a pair of large Coronation lyre-tail grouper (Variola louti) swimming together. Usually seen only singly, we hope they are a breeding pair. Not far away was a juvenile Napol.ean wrasse.… Continue Reading
