GREEN SEASON PROMO! Enjoy a SCENIC drive through EAST BALI when it is at its most BEAUTIFUL. Dive East Bali's WORLD CLASS DIVE sites! Day trips for CERTIFIED DIVERS:TULAMBEN    79 Usd per person*PADANG BAI    89 Usd per person*AMED    &nb...

While the Mimic and Wonderpuss are the charismatic Cephalopods that get all the attention, and we like them too, the Coconut Octopus (Amphioctopus marginatus) is a personal favourite. Extremely common at Puri Jati, Serrarit (PJ's)  and a number of other locations around North Bali, the Coconut ...

PADI Asia Pacific’s Management team held its latest Regional Manager meeting on the beautiful islands of Bali and Gili Trawangan in Indonesia from 14-18 September.PADI chose the location to welcome Tony Andrews as the latest Member of the Asia Pacific Regional Manager team. Tony is a PADI Cour...

Bali Diving Academy Pemuteran is once again doing its part for the marine environment hosting an underwater & Beach Clean up on 19/9/09 held in conjunction with Project Aware’s International Cleanup Day and Ocean Conservancy’s International Coastal Clean-up.All interested divers and ...

Tow members of our hard working sales and reservations team, Uniek and Kadek, have just returned from a long weekend in Jakarta at Indonesia's only Dive show, Deep Indonesia. Bali Diving Academy exhibited on the PADI stand with a view to promoting not only Bali Diving Academy, but also diving and B...

The Scuba STAR Network is an independent organisation that provides safety-related information, recommendations, and guidance to divers, certification agencies, dive centres, resorts and equipment manufacturers and generally works to improve safety for divers. The Scuba STAR Network is conducting a...

Affiliations: The ocean sunfish or mola may seem in a class by themselves butthey belong in the same class with all other bony fishes known as Osteichthyes.Here is their pedigree: Kingdom Animalia, Phylum Chordata, Subphylum VertebrataClass Osteichthyes, Order Tetraodontiformes (includes puffer fis...

We have just received exciting news from Dr Tierney Thys one the other side of the globe. Tierney advises us that the satellite tags attached to Mola mola just off Nusa Lembongan on October 11, 2008 surfaced and began transmitting data on Jan 08, 2009. Level three Argos positions indicated the ...

In July 2007, a small company, made a large committement. Island Express / Gili Cat, ran Gili Cat 1 from Padang Bai to Gil Trawangan - Lombok, to become the first company to commit to a daily scheduled service between Mainland Bali and the Gili Islands -Lombok. Utilsing the shortest possible oc...

It’s been an action packed six weeks for the Bali Diving Academy So intense in fact, it has taken awhile for them to surface, decompress and provide Bali Update with a run down on what’s been happening in Bali’s unique marine environment… This story of Bali’s bigg...

The Inaugural Annual Bali Dive Safety Symposium has been hailed as a resounding success by diving and medical professionals in Bali and Gili Trawangan, Lombok. Attended by 70 participants in Bali and 65 participants on Gili Trawangan, the symposium reached a direct audience of over 100 dive pro...

Bali Diving Academy is proud to announce facilitation of a second successful Mola Mola tagging expedition in Nusa Penida / Nusa Lembongan. On October 9th and 11th 2008, two ocean sunfish, Mola mola, were tagged below their top fin with gray satellite tags. These tags will track the animals’ m...

As you may know already, Bali is a DivePhotoGuide favorite. For years now Jason has said its diving is under rated and I recently made the argument that its a world class dive destination in my two part special about the Indonesian island. In lieu of this ,we happy to announce that our friends at Hy...