With five boats in the water, Manta Ray Bay is quite a busy place right now. After all, we take pride in making our guests' wishes come true. So, if there are divers who really don't want to dive with sharks or mantas, well, there are always separate dive boats we can...

We embarked on a shark hunt this morning, seeking an elusive school of Hammerheads seen just a few times here. Seems that shark school has all the stops pulled out on the diving schedule, not many guests want to get up early and head out for deep current dive in the dark. Hammerheads have been...

Day two of shark school took the group down south on Popou to Yap Cavens and the southern walls. Yesterday we prepped the Caverns site with a bait box which produced a big group of mature Grey Reefs occupying the site. The Caverns dive is typically a sharky experience with white tips resting in the...

An den Anfang haben die Götter den Schweiß gesetzt: Im Fall von Yap bedeutet das im Klartext einen saftigen Langstreckenflug, der mit dem überreichten Blumenkranz ("Nunu") aber immer ein versöhnliches Ende findet. So, als wolle einem die Südsee-Schönheit, die jeden Gast am Flughafen schmückt, sagen: "Entspann' Dich, Du hast es geschafft!" Als die Reisestrapazen im Ansatz...

The beginning is always hardest: in case of Yap that means getting to that point past the immigration where the beautiful girl puts a floral wreath around your neck as if to say "relax - you're in Yap now!" Still, it speaks volumes that the first thing our SharkSchool guests basically did after a much-needed...