Diving Sulawesi - Bunaken

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July 20th 2007

Published: August 22nd 2007

Oceans, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the scuba-diver Ali. His five-year mission: To explore strange new reefs. To seek out new fish and new nudi-branches. To boldly dive where no one has dived before. Hobby or Obsession? Of all the marine environments coral reefs contain the highest diversity of species, of all the reefs in the world those in South East Asia have the highest dive... Read Full Entry

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22nd August 2007

Robert Watters
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More brill. fish pics!
H Ali, more brilliant fish pictures! It's a pity they don't pay to have their portraits taken. Dad

22nd August 2007

TeamTurner
Michael & Kelley Turner

Great Pictures
Ali, Great pictures, you should consider trying to sell a few of them as stock photography. If I could give any advice it would be to watch your depth of field, but I'm not sure if that's easy to do underwater. Otherwise, some of those pictures are amazing! Michael Turner (www.mytb.org/TeamTurner)

22nd August 2007

Bridget Watters
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beutiful fish
just had fish for tea and then looked at photos, they are really fantastic ali, they get better and better really like the anemone fishes, mum

24th August 2007

josworld
Johanna

Underwater Trekky
Nice Star Trek catch phrase :>....Your marine life photos always fascinate me....keep up the good work !....Cheers !

24th August 2007

aspiringnomad
Jason

Let the marine biologists debate...
The Place you seek is the Togian Islands. I hope you are still in Sulawesi so you can head down there. I won't go into too much detail now, let it be our secret;-) Also the islands around komodo and east of Flores will bring you to some of the least disturbed and magical dive spots in the world. In my humble opinion Bunaken was (at least 10 years ago) too popular and alas too close the big City of Manado and it's big dirty river. There used to be a joke doing the rounds back then to ask people who went to Bunaken if they saw the plastic bag fish? How is it now, have they cleaned up their act? Happy travels P.S. And commendation on a noble recovery from the August 2007 crash!

24th August 2007

Ali
Ali Watters

Yes - it was close to Manado
I did see a lot of trash washing up on the shores of Bunaken - and the odd plastic bag while diving! I don't know if it is improving or not - but I was happy enough diving there :) Thanks for the tip on Togian islands - unfortunately I'm in KL now, given the chance I'll go back to Sulawesi.

24th August 2007

Abe
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Been there it was wonderful
Allstair, I stayed on Bunaken Island in 1998, it was the best snorkeling experience I've ever had. I love the island. Too bad it's so close to Manado, you know it's going to be ruined soon by overpopulation. The other islands are good too though.

17th November 2007

Chi
Chisus

Great Pics
Heey there... great underwater pictures!

18th July 2009

donni
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great dive
bunaken very most popular for to do somethiing dive my favorite dive

13th August 2010

meg
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now i know what it's called!
i caught one of these today! hehehe

10th December 2011

cabochick
Andrea

Underwater Amazing!
Wow Ali! That is such an amazing picture. You must have quite the camera for underwater pictures like these. Thanks for posting them, they always catch my attention.

16th December 2011

Ali
Ali Watters

Thanks Andrea.
No - just a good point and shoot :) - this one was taken with Canon G9 standard housing, I'm using a Canon S90 now... hope to upgrade to an micro 4/3rds camera soon.

7th April 2012

GARUBA GAFARU AJADI
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is this the biggest size of Juvenile Cafish so far ? permit me with the question because i am potential farmer planning to emback on fishfirming .

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