Bunaken & Manado Diving Videos
The area around Manado in North Sulawesi provides some excellent scuba diving. In June and November 2006 I stayed on Bunaken Island with Two Fish Divers. Bunaken is a protected marine park offering wall diving topped by spectacular coral reefs. Besides Bunaken Island itself, I also made visits to dive sites in the surrounding area at the island of Manado Tua and on the Sulawesi mainland.
Bunaken HDThe fascinating underwater world of Bunaken Island marine park which lies near Manado on the Indonesian Island of Sulawesi. Shot in HDV. We journey first to Batu Lohang on the island of Manado Tua where we witness some of the world's finest hard coral communities. At Bunaken Island we visit Ron's Point, Sachiko and Lekuan where we meet green turtles, sharks and a host of smaller marine life. We finish with a visit to nearby Siladen Island. |
Bunaken Night Dive HDNight dive at Bunaken Island, Indonesia. Fascinating critters shot in high definition HDV. Featuring squid, damselfish, butterflyfish, starfish, scorpionfish, slipper lobster, crabs, anglerfish, shrimps, parrotfish, nudibranchs and ocellated dwarf lionfish. |
Wori CrittersScuba diving at Wori and Tiwoho near Manado. Wori is an excellent muck diving destination on the Sulawesi mainland and a short boat trip from Bunaken Island. On a single dive in November 2006 I encountered catfish, nudibranchs, ribbon eels and various rare fish. Afterwards I dived at nearby Tiwoho where squid were laying their eggs. HDV footage shot with my Sony Z1 camera. |
Bunaken IslandWhile taking a break from scuba diving on Bunaken Island I had the privilege of visiting the delightful Bunaken village where Muslims and Christians live together in harmony. The village kids were fascinated by their own image on my video camera's flip screen. |
Bunaken Island Night DiveA montage of night-dive video footage from "Muka", right in front of Two Fish Divers' resort on Bunaken Island. The video features a starry moray eel, a blackspotted pufferfish, a stareye parrotfish, nudibranchs, an ocellated dwarf lionfish, tassled scorpionfish, and many crustaceans including a decorator crab, a sponge crab, a hermit crab, a spiny lobster and a marble shrimp. |
Bunaken Timur & Sachiko's PointBunaken Timur lies on the east coast of Bunaken Island, the same side as Two Fish Divers' resort. Sachiko's Point is nearby at the north-east corner. Both are typical Bunaken wall dives featuring a wealth of marine life. The video features napoleon wrasse, a spotted eagle ray, nudibranchs, a school of striped bonito, banded boxer shrimps, striped eel catfish, a whitemouth moray eel, a banded sea snake, a blackspotted pufferfish, and fairy basslets. The tops of the walls are covered in spectacular hard corals. |
Molas Shipwreck & Taunjung PisokThe Molas shipwreck was a Dutch cargo vessel sunk during WWII near Molas beach, just outside the town of Manado. The deepest part of the wreck lies in 40m water. A school of longfin batfish circles the top of the wreck. At nearby Tanjung Pisok, also on the Sulawesi mainland, we meet organgutan crabs and a delightful tiny clown frogfish (Antennarius maculatus). |
Lekuan I & II, Bunaken IslandLekuan I & II are classic wall dives on the south side of Bunaken Island. Several large green turtles (Chelonia mydas) sleep on ledges on the walls here. Diagonal-banded sweetlips and pelagics like mackerel tuna pass by in the blue. We also meet a clown triggerfish, a bluefaced angelfish being shadowed by a trumpetfish, a lemon damsel, a whitespotted boxfish, a doublebar goatfish and pink anemonefish. A common lionfish hovers over the hard corals in the shallows. |
Alung Banua, Mandolin & Manado TuaManado Tua, meaning "old Manado", is a dormant volcanic island lying north of Bunaken Island. The video opens with the swim-throughs at Alung Banua on Bunaken Island itself and footage from Mandolin. We then visit Negeri and Bualo on the southern coast of Manado Tua where we meet nudbranchs, an anemone shrimp, leaf scorpionfish, damselfish, different species of anemonefish, a red fire goby and a christmas tree worm. |
