Thought about next year's holiday yet?

We are getting busy with those 'early birds' who are preparing for next year's holidays well in advance. I have many bookings for rooms and diving as far ahead as July 2011.

Maybe you might need a refresher dive before taking part in a dive safari, or fancy completing the next dive course in your ladder of further education. Absolute scuba is here to help.

We teach all PADI and SSI courses from Resort diver (Introductory dive) all the way through to Instructor training, we even teach Technical diving for the more adventurous amongst us.

Drop me an email through the website links for more information.

See you soon

Open water course anyone??

Its been pretty busy over the last few weeks with many back to back Open water courses.

This course is the first step in your diver training, allowing you, once qualified to dive anywhere in the world to 18 metres, in similar conditions to those you trained in.

Lots of holiday makers take this course during their stay in Padang Bai, after trying snorkeling and seeing what is on offer just below the surface.

I always remember the saying "Standing on the shore, looking at the ocean is like standing outside the circus staring at the tent. There is just so much more to see."

Once you have tried diving, snorkeling will never be the same again, try it, you'll love it!

Mola Mola!

Yesterday, we travelled over to Nusa Penida. First dive at Manta Point; many Mantas, many divers! Next to Crystal Bay, again, many divers. There was another 24 boats in the bay so we thought our chances of spotting Mola were slim to nil. However, as we dropped in, a dive guide from another company signed to me that they'd seen 2 Mola Mola along the wall. We swam along to the cleaning station........nothing, then Budi, our lead guide swam deeper........he found a Mola but it was diving deeper. He tried again further back into the bay, and hey presto, MOLA!

Happy divers, mission accomplished.

We travel back to Crystal Bay again today, hoping to find more Mola for the group again. Wish us luck.

Amed

Today we went to Amed, south east Bali, close to Tulamben. Its about 1 1/2 hours from Absolute Scuba, and the journey by bus is through beautiful rice terraces, winding through the mountains. Amed still hold the charm of the traditional fishermans (and seasalt processing) village, with many beaches, restaurants and, of course, dive centres. The diving here is excellent, especially the Japanese wreck where we visited today. Just a small group of 3 divers today, plus Diduk, the dive guide and Joe, Dive Controller trainee who is still learning the dive sites. We saw many bat fish and hidden pygmy seahorses, nudis and many different colours of reef fish. This has got to be one of my favourite dive sites!

Guest review

Received this review from some guests that had stayed and dived with us recently:

"Hi Absolute Scuba dive nice guy & Budi,

We're much thanks having pleasant & exciting week in Bali with all of yours, we hope can see Mola Mola in next ......

hey Budi, attached pictures let you see @@

Franki & Matthew"

A hunting we will go, a hunting we will go............

We've discovered a little known muck dive site close to the centre, that has guaranteed ornate ghost pipefish.

There was a rumour that the site existed so we went out for a hunt on Saturday, and sure enough, after a bit of a search, there were the little blitters; one black, one white.

Then later one in the same dive, two robust pipefish and a huge feathertail ray (which we'd never encountered before). Sometimes it pays to go a hunting in a new area!

Bring your cameras..........and if you're lucky, we'll show you our new friends

Happy birthday boys!

This month has included the birthdays of 2 of our dive guides; Diduk and Budi. These guys worked really hard last year to achieve the status of SSI Dive Controller, PADI's equivalent of Assistant Instructor.

They are excellent dive guides; caring, helpful, and wonderful spotters for those critters that photography divers love so much!

So, this is a quick word to say 'Thanks Guys' for being such wonderful staff, and we look forward to a hectic busy season when we hunt for Mola Mola and Manta Ray for our happy dive guests.

The photo shows front left Budi, front right Diduk plus two of the equipment staff enjoying Christmas