New lionfish species

The list of new species found in Gorontalo continues to grow! Miguel’s Diving staff have noticed a particular kind of lionfish over the past several years that has a different appearance from the other ones. We have now confirmed it is the newPterois...

Magic Carpet

This week in one location where Miguel’s Diving brings diver is a rare natural phenomena: the sudden appearance of millions of Bennett’s tobies. They form moving carpets that sail along the coral walls. Divers can swim through the schools, watching them...

Korean fishing boat wreck

On an exploratory dive last week Miguel’s Dving accidently found a large wreck. It turned out to be a Korean fishing boat that sunk in the 1980s. All valuable and removable metals like the round window hatches and propeller had been removed by salvagers long...

Divers returning to blue Sulawesi waters

With the annual changing of east to west winds on Sulawesi’s vast Tomini Bay, diving in Gorontalo has resumed. Divers no longer have to brave crazy surface conditions, multiple thermoclimes and rapidly changing visibility common in early October. Not only are...

Wall of tuna

Today’s wreck diving was postponed a bit for another pelagic encounter, this time tuna. As divers were getting ready to enter the water, sudden splashes disturbed the still surface of the ocean. Towards the new moon, minnows start massing for migration up the...