by Miguel's Diving | Mar 16, 2015 | Marine Life, Sulawesi Diving
Canthigaster bennetti flows in schools along Gorontalo reefs, forming a magic carpet.A Magic CarpetCanthigaster bennetti, commonly called Bennett’s toby, gather in Gorontalo in huge numbers. They gather to spawn. Swimming in coordinated streams, they fly along the...
by Miguel's Diving | Jan 16, 2015 | Marine Life, News
Crustacean identification guide Coral Reef Crustaceans is newly available at Apple’s iBooks Store. By a Diver for Divers Mr. Andrey Ryanskiy is the author of this interactive crustacean identification guide. He is a Moscow-based financial consultant. He and his wife...
by Miguel's Diving | Jan 6, 2015 | Marine Life
A killer whale cruised Gorontalo waters on New Year’s Day. Killer Whale Sightings in Gorontalo Waters off most dive sites in Gorontalo plunge to hundreds of meters. These deep waters bring large cetaceans close to land. Miguel’s Diving staff have discovered the ocean...
by Miguel's Diving | Oct 25, 2014 | Marine Life, Night diving
Basket stars can be observed on night dives in Gorontalo. Symmetrical Beauty Basket stars are beautiful marine invertebrates. Starfish and brittle stars are their distant relatives. They have a central disk and arms branching from it. The arms are many times the...
by Miguel's Diving | Sep 10, 2014 | Marine Life, Sulawesi Diving
Side gilled sea slugs are a delight to find during night diving in Gorontalo. Nocturnal Sea Slugs Nudibranchs usually have their gills exposed on the top of their bodies. But side gilled sea slugs have large plume-like gills tucked between the mantle and the foot. The...
by Miguel's Diving | Aug 24, 2014 | Marine Life, Sulawesi Diving
That tumbling mass is really sea hare mating! Imagine the surprise of divers looking for critters at Sand Castle, one of Gorontalo’s muck diving sites. On the sand in shallow water were masses that looked like sea weeds, rocking back and forth in the gentle...
