PADI Rescue Certification for our staff

Scuba diving South Lombok this week we have also been working on our staff’s scuba certification and been completing the PADI rescue course for some of our staff.

Have a look at our Facebook page and you can find a photo of me, in the background with my handsome helper Munahir along with the 3 pupils in the front, appearing a bit worn out from all of the rescue exercises. It has also been a challenging week for the trainees, being put all the way through their rescue skills and scenarios. Now, at this point, we will send all of them over to Nusa Lembongan for the subsequent portion of their training program. Best of luck guys and then we'll see you soon and dive the southern Gilis together again.

We again enjoyed some awesome South Lombok diving this week with Romero and Sebastian. The two fellows were really lucky and our southern Gili dive sites offered them an awful lot of cool stuff like the pygmy sea horses, painted frog fish, cuttle fish, nudibranches, octopus, double ended pipe fish, millipedes, turtles and crazy much more.

Also an “wow” awesome week for me personally since I experienced my very first earth quake. Not a major one, but still good enough and I sat there being fascinated whilst everybody else jumped outside. Very well I now do understand what to do for the next time. Apart from this, great weather yet again while diving the southern Gilis and a lot of sun, terrific visibility, only very little current, so overall yet another awesome week scuba diving South Lombok.

Fantastic South Lombok Diving at House Reef

Diving South Lombok at our house reef we’ve spotted a gorgeous white ornate ghost pipe fish. Those amazing little ghost pipe is such a beautiful creature and when the light is right it’s pretty much translucent, and the coolest thing is that it decided to hang around and show itself when we dive our South Lombok house reef.

We have been doing some exploration diving around the southern Gilis to see if we can add on to our multitude of South Lombok dive sites and it looks like we might have found a new dive site to add to the list. Our South Lombok guides came back from diving the southern Gilis after having explored a few dive sites with stories of excellent visibility, unbelievably colorful reefs, frog fish, octopus, cuttle fish, nudibranches, more ghost pipe fish, squid and other discoveries while diving the South Gilis. We still need to dive these new South Lombok dive sites some more and get our bearings straight, but I think soon we’ll be able to add on the our southern Gili dive sites.

Apart from exploring new South Lombok dive sites our guides and our crew have also been doing some training, which is always good for some fun and good laughs. We’ve been brushing up on our crew’s English skills, my Bahasa, some dive theory, and pretty much everything in-between. Diving here in South Lombok we’re actually quite lucky to have such a motivated, fun and enthusiastic crew, but not only that, in general they’re just plain a awesome team.

Have had very little rain to no rain this week and the visibility is stable at around 20m. Hardly any current with no waves have been making it great South Lombok diving.