PADI IDC Gili Islands, PADI Career Development Dive Resort

When you want to change your lifestyle and you want to live and work on a tropical island, there is an option: Become a dive instructor! Oceans 5 dive resort has started a few days ago a Padi instructor development course (IDC). Oceans 5 likes to welcome Janneke from the Netherlands, Matt from the UK, Iggi from Greece and John from South Africa. Read more.....

I read an article a few days back about ECOCEAN. ECOCEAN is a non-profit organization, they undertake research and education activities, to eventually assist marine conservation initiatives. Some of you might remember, a few weeks back Oceans 5 had a magical Whale shark encounter... Were you on the boat? How did you feel? Read more...

Today all the inhabitants of Gili Air island, Indonesia, met in the harbor to perform a Beach Clean- up together. All the kids from the school were so cute, picking up the trash, with big yellow bags that were almost bigger than them. Business owners, bar tenders, island DJ's, Cidomo drivers, ... We all monopolized to help clean the island. Several dive shops jumped in the water, to perform an underwater clean- up. What are the benefits of a beach clean- up? Read more...

Have you ever received an underwater rose? Do you have any idea what the underwater rose is? Usually I don't get too worked up for Valentine's day. I'm not the contrary either, saying Valentine's day is the bull- shit commercial lovy- love day, is a bit extreme. I guess I find myself somewhere in between and definitely believe that any day is a good day to celebrate and express your Love to one another.

If you have a choice to dive in a soup of plastic, the smell of petrol around you, seeing more rubbish than fish or diving in crystal clear water? The choice is easy isn't it? Marine debris also affects reefs in many areas. Marine debris is any human-made object that is discarded, disposed of, or abandoned that enters coastal and ocean waters. Debris may enter directly from a ship or indirectly when washed out to sea via rivers, streams, and storm drains. Hundreds of human-made items end up as marine debris, including plastics (from bags to balloons, hard hats to fishing line), glass, metal, rubber (millions of tires!), and even entire vessels. Plastic debris kills several reef species. Derelict (abandoned) fishing nets and other gear—often called "ghost nets" because they still catch fish and other marine life despite being abandoned—can entangle and kill reef organisms and break or damage reefs. Even remote reef systems suffer the effects of marine debris. This ...

After today's photo shooting for Cites4Sharks, with as theme Extinction is NOT an option. I figured we could get our shark awareness up today. 43 million sharks are killed every year. Which comes out to 5000 per hour! The main reason is the high value of the shark's fin, which are purely added for texture in a Chinese delicacy... Have you ever tried shark fin soup? Care to share your feeling on the exquisite taste? Sharks have been on this planet for over 400 million years. The apex predator is being mass murdered. We are hunting them down to extinction. Special thanks to Project AWARE to remind us Extinction is NOT an option! Lets take action together! read more...

The Stonefish (Leptosynanceia asteroblepa) The stonefish can go from appearing to be a simple, harmless rock lying on the ocean’s floor to a stone-cold killer in a flash, making it one of nature’s most amazing quick-change artists. Known for being the most venomous fish in the world, the stonefish makes its home in the shallow water among the coral reefs of the Indian and Pacific Oceans off Africa and the Red Sea to Northern Australia. Here when we are diving around the Gili Islands you can find a few stonefish at the Biorock, Gili Trawangan, Lombok, Indonesia. Read more....