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Congratulations to both Bas and Kelly for completing their PADI Open Water Course with Lou at Eco Divers Lembeh Cottages. They are both in North Sulawesi, Indonesia volunteering their time at Tasikoki Wildlife Rescue Centre. They head back to Holland later this week to continue their studies. We all wish them well and safe diving. In fact Kelly is already planning her next diving adventure with her sister in the Red Sea, Egypt!

Here you can see Bas Baudewijns and Kelly van Gils with their instructor Louise Kraechter (centre) after their last dive of the course.



Tasikoki Wildlife Rescue Centre is one of the several wildlife rescue centres and wildlife transfer stations originally set up by the Gibbon Foundation to care for the ever increasing influx of confiscated, illegally kept and traded wildlife within Indonesia. The Tasikoki centre has been established in a strategic location to tackle the cross-border trade from Indonesia towards the Philippines and onwards to China, Taiwan and Japan. Guests staying at Eco Divers Lembeh Cottages can take a morning tour to Tasikoki Wildlife Rescue Centre as it is located just 20 minutes drive from the Cottages. For more information about Tasikoki or to give a donation please visit www.tasikoki.org.

Congratulations to Emyr and Vito Abdulkadir for completing their PADI Open Water certifications here at Eco Divers Kima Bajo Resort & Spa with instructor Karl ter Vehn Lexell.

Congratulations to Stephanie who has completed her PADI Open Water course with us at Eco Divers Lembeh Cottages. Stephanie is a Veterinarian from France who has given both her time and skills to Tasikoki Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre here in North Sulawesi.

After hearing Richard Carman (a Tasikoki Volunteer who completed his PADI Open Water course with us a couple of weeks ago) talk so much about the crazy critters he was seeing, Stephanie decided to do the course herself so she could see what all the fuss was about! On her very first Open Water dive she saw a Frogfish sitting in the shallows!! Throughout the 4 Open Water dives she saw a whole host of amazing creatures including Porcelain Crabs, Cleaner Shrimp, Snake Eels, Ribbon Eels, Sea Snakes and baby Banggai Cardinalfish.

Also thanks goes to Paul Gillingham who is currently doing his Divemaster course with us at Eco Divers Lembeh Cottages. He very ably assisted Lou (Stephanie's instructor), during Stephanie's Confined and Open Water dives and he is now a little closer to getting his professional qualification.

Here's a great photo taken by our Photo Pro, Christian Loader, of Paul Gillingham, Stephanie and Louise Kraechter straight after Stephanie's final Open Water qualifying dive. Congratulations again!!



Tasikoki Wildlife Rescue Centre is one of the several wildlife rescue centres and wildlife transfer stations originally set up by the Gibbon Foundation to care for the ever increasing influx of confiscated, illegally kept and traded wildlife within Indonesia. The Tasikoki centre has been established in a strategic location to tackle the cross-border trade from Indonesia towards the Philippines and onwards to China, Taiwan and Japan. Guests staying at Eco Divers Lembeh Cottages can take a morning tour to Tasikoki Wildlife Rescue Centre as it is located just 20 minutes drive from the Cottages. For more information about Tasikoki or to give a donation please visit www.tasikoki.org.

At no point when he decided to come to Indonesia did he ever think he would be leaving as a qualified PADI AOW diver, having seen a whole host of incredible critters including Pygmy Seahorses, huge cuttlefish and loads of Boxer Shrimp out for a stroll on the night dive!!

Here's what he had to say about his time with Eco Divers "Massive thank you to all the staff and crew on the Nautica for helping to teach me to dive. I had an amazing time and was pleased by the kindness and patience of everyone onboard. It was an experience I will treasure forever. Thanks again!!"

Well done again from us here at Eco Divers Lembeh Cottages and hope to welcome you back soon for some more crazy critter diving!!



Tasikoki Wildlife Rescue Centre is one of the several wildlife rescue centres and wildlife transfer stations originally set up by the Gibbon Foundation to care for the ever increasing influx of confiscated, illegally kept and traded wildlife within Indonesia. The Tasikoki centre has been established in a strategic location to tackle the cross-border trade from Indonesia towards the Philippines and onwards to China, Taiwan and Japan. Guests staying at Eco Divers Lembeh Cottages can take a morning tour to Tasikoki Wildlife Rescue Centre as it is located just 20 minutes drive from the Cottages. For more information about Tasikoki or to give a donation please visit www.tasikoki.org. 

Well Done Peter for achieving your PADI Master Scuba Diver level with us at Eco Divers in Kima Bajo.

The Padi Master Scuba Diver rating is the highest qualification a recreational diver can achieve in the Padi System.

We look forward having hundreds of more dive with you.

 

 

After a week at our Kima Bajo centre recently, doing their PADI Rescue and Nitrox courses, Alan and Harikumar came to us here at Lembeh Cottages where they notched up their 100^th dive! Congratulations from all the Eco team for the milestone dive and well done on passing your courses.

We all hope to see you both again very soon.

   

What a great way to start 2011 for Filomena, Andrea, Jean Pierre ,Valentina and Matteo, all coming from Jakarta to spend the New Year holidays with us.

They have been doing an introductory scuba dive with us at Kima Bajo in the nice and easy diving point called Tanjung Bolung.

They have first got used to the scuba equipment in the pool and then have done the dive at sea, They all enjoyed this experience very much, we had an excellent weather and great diving conditions, like it is most of time in Manado.

Liam (12 ) and his sister Kelly (10) have completed their Scuba Diver course and enjoying diving with Clown fish, butterfly fish, angel fish and many other colorful and beautiful fish.

"I was very impressed by their natural aquatic skills and I am sure they will be great divers". says Luca their PADI Instructor,

All Eco Divers Team wishes both of you many great and exciting dives :) . 
 

Congratulations to Peter and Jacob to learn to dive and get certified as PADI Open Water Diver with us at Kima Bajo. You have done very well during the course and we are sure you will have many new exiting underwater adventures................

 

 

 

 ........and also :"Well done  Feng to have compleated your PADI Advanced Open Water Diver certification"............ Feng has come to Eco Divers and dived with us in the marine park of Bunaken getting experience in the following dives: Deep, Navigation, Drift, Peak Performace Buoyancy and Underwater Digital Photography.

 

We have had a great time with all of you guys and we wish to see you back here some day diving with us and also keep in touch to let us know about your diving and your progress.

 

Eco Divers Dive Team wish you all the best and lots of fun whenever you will be diving.

 

Keep it SAFE underwater .