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Happy to be Back! by Alex Lindbloom

Happy to be Back! by Alex Lindbloom             It’s been roughy eight months since my last dive in Raja Ampat and somehow I had forgotten just how spectacular the diving is here. From the...
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Saving the Last Great Reefs by Douglas Seifert

Saving the Last Great Reefs by Douglas Seifert World renown marine life image maker Douglas Seifert shares an article from WATER COLUMN his regular feature in Dive Magazine (UK), about the...
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Manta Mantra by Don Silcock

Manta Mantra by Don Silcock Almost like clockwork they appear every day – usually just after 8 AM, in time for their morning ablutions. The trick is to let them be cleaned in peace from...
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Rosco’s Ridge: New Cenderawasih Bay dive site by Garry Bevan

Rosco’s Ridge: New Cenderawasih Bay dive site by Garry Bevan (This site is now posted on the Cenderawasih Bay map) Pulau Miosauri is the collective name for a group of islands in central...
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Dr. Gerry Allen lives to Dive and Count Fish, Part 1

Dr. Gerry Allen lives to Dive and Count Fish, Part 1  This is the first of a three-part interview with Dr. Gerald Allen, one of the world’s foremost ichthyologists. Gerry dives frequently in the...
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Indonesia’s “Underwater Legacy” by Kerri Bingham and Hergen Spalink

Indonesia’s Underwater Legacy Text and images by Kerri Bingham and Hergen Spalink Indonesia is a country of over 17,000 islands, so what makes these particular ones that make up the Birds Head...
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Dive Site Maps by Ali Murtadlo and Jerry & Debbie Arriaga

Dive Site Maps by Ali Murtadlo and Jerry & Debbie Arriaga The BHS would like to thank Ali, Debbie and Jerry for their generous contribution to the site.  This article only contains a few of...
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THE PASSAGE: text and photography by Jim Black

THE PASSAGE There is a narrow, meandering waterway that separates Waigeo and Gam islands in Raja Ampat. Divers call it “The Passage”. My first voyage up that channel with its...
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Big Fish Thriving in Raja Ampat

We’ve been back a few weeks from our last Raja Ampat trip of the season a place where there are still new reefs to discover, new thrills to experience. Even though we wrote the guide to diving in...
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Southeast Misool Fact Sheet

Southeast Misool is the largest and southern most marine protected area (MPA) in the Raja Ampat MPA network and rests within the Coral Triangle – the global center of marine biodiversity. The MPA...
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