2012 – 2013 New Season Report
Time flies. After a sometimes difficult, but predominantly enjoyable rainy season in Ambon, Maluku Divers is into its fourth year operating in its purpose-built dive resort located in the quaint village of Laha, just 8 minutes away from Pattimura Airport of Ambon, Indonesia. And the word is out: in the last three years, Maluku Divers has [...]
King of Gossip, King of Jazz, King of Larike, but A Village Boy at Heart
Other than the dive guides, probably the most remembered among Maluku Divers’ staff is Hafes Lausepa. Most guests know Hafes as the warm and charming Restaurant Manager at our restaurant who regularly serenades to them at dinner. Unbeknownst to many guests initially, Hafes is also a king. The word “Maluku” or “Moluccas” (old name of [...]
Octopus Bonanza in Ambon Bay!
The Octopus is one of the most highly intelligent invertebrates in the marine world. One, bred in a German aquarium, even ‘predicted’ the winner of each of Germany’s national football team’s seven matches in the 2010 FIFA World Cup and the outcome of the final game by its feeding behaviour. Now, we don’t know how [...]
Equator Diving – Ambon Trip Report
Continuing our theme of letting other people spread the word about Maluku Divers and the dive experiences we offer, here’s an update from the team at Equator Diving in the UK, who visited our resort earlier this season. Over five weeks in late 2011 the Equator Diving team visited some amazing dive locations in both [...]
Howard Hall’s Report; Diving Ambon with Maluku Divers
As we reported in our last update, we were very happy to host some well known photographers at the resort in February, what better way to see what they thought than publishing their own experiences and images… On February 6 Michele and I made our last dive aboard Seven Seas in Raja Ampat. Early the next [...]
All-Star Diving at Maluku Divers
February 2012 saw the crew of Maluku Divers honoured by an all-star visit by eminent IMAX underwater cinematographers, Howard and Michele Hall, world renowned underwater photographers, Norbert Wu and Douglas Seifert and his wife Emily Iriving, and owners of Gates Underwater video housing, John and Karen Ellerbrock. An introduction of the star-studded cast in the diving [...]
Brief Encounters of a Strange Kind
Upon arrival at the Maluku Divers Resort, guests often ask to dive the “Twilight Zone”. The dive site, named by the King of Muck Diving, the late Larry Smith, sits between two jetties normally lined up with fishing boats docking after bringing in a few days’ catch. The light generated by the boats overhead enhances the suitability of [...]
Stonner’s Pet Shrimps
The youngest member of Maluku Divers’ dive guide team has beautiful, dreamy eyes laced with lush eyelashes adorned on a boyish face that would melt any girl’s heart. But his charm is not limited to young girls; his quiet, humble demeanour finds its way into the hearts of our divers too. But to attribute his popularity [...]
Rudy’s Randalli (Sylvia and Tom’s too!)
As many people will tell you, the Twilight Zone on the slopes of Laha Ambon are pretty much full of frogfish. Not only do we have our very own species, the Maluku Frogfish, (Histiophryne psychedelica) which our team discovered in 2008, we have a huge array of other species ranging through clown, painted, striatus, hairy, giant frogfish to tiny, huge, fat, thin, lazy [...]
Soleman’s Colemans
Quality dive guides are essential at a location such as Maluku Divers where so many subjects can be found, it can make for a photographer’s dream trip. Recognizing Ambon’s rise to the top of the ‘must visit’ list of Indonesia critter and muck diving, Maluku Divers has focused on assembling a dedicated and experienced team. [...]
