December 2009 Archives

Everyone at Eco Divers wishes you a Merry Christmas and a happy and healthy 2010.

Next year we'll be offering you a great Lembeh Strait diving experience for an amazing price and we're also delighted to announce the opening of North Sulawesi's only dedicated digital photo and video facility at Kima Bajo Resort.

So, when you plan your 2010 dive holiday, look no further than Eco Divers.

And remember, we'd love to hear from you if you have ideas about anything you'd like us to include in future editions. Email us at info@eco-divers.com.

Jim & Cary Yanny

Visit Eco Divers team at the BOOT show from 23 - 31 January in Düsseldorf. We're on the WiroDive Stand F69, Hall 03. We will be there ready to tempt you to the delights of clear, warm water diving in the best of both worlds - Bunaken and Lembeh.

Our diving service, as with all Eco Divers services, is about comfort and safety, which is why we've recently purchased two dive speedboats for our Lembeh Cottage service. Each speedboat can accommodate up to 8 divers in full comfort and is fitted with tank rack, seated dive deck, jump gate and stainless steel ladder. The size of dive groups will be limited to a maximum of 4 guests per guide (as we do at Kima Bajo). Our guides are highly experienced Lembeh guides, with many years experience on the local sites.

Between dives you will be taken by speedboat to Eco Divers' large, comfortable boat, MV Nautica where you can relax in a shaded salon. Facilities include two toilets, showers, tea and coffee facilities and a large sundeck. A hot buffet lunch will be served onboard each day. As we have generators on-board, you can also charge your cameras or bring laptops onto the boat. DAN Oxygen and first aid are also available, as is Nitrox. Since our two Cottages each sleep 6 guests, that means a maximum of just 12 guests on-board, giving each guest a huge amount of personal space and comfort between dives.

Nautica will move up and down the Lembeh Strait with the dive speedboats, so it's always close by when you finish your dive. Our dive program in Lembeh is three guided day-dives per day, on different sites and you can also opt to add a night dive as the fourth dive of the day.

Guests can combine a stay at Kima Bajo Resort & Spa, to dive Bunaken, with a stay at our Lembeh Cottages.

The high season has just passed by in a blink of an eye. It has been very good and especially we have had the best weather of the last 5 years. The sky was always blue and the sea nice and flat.

A bit of rain has started now, anyway, the days are still beautiful.

Does less divers  mean less work? Not really.

As matter of fact during this period some of the staff will have the chance to take their well deserved holiday, they will take turns as the operation keep being busy doing maintenance.

Here at Eco Divers we like the things to be done properly and like every year we are fully maintaining all our boats, engines, dive equipments etc..........

We have decided this year to give a full training to all of our captains in Engine maintenance. A chief mechanic from Evinrude Jakarta has been so kind to come over to teach our staff how to fully open and close all our engines. With this 15 days training our captains will have the chance once again to gain more experience in engine handling and once more ensure that our guests will be under total safety when scuba diving or snorkeling with us.