The day you take your macro system to the reef is certainly the day that a big animal show is going to go down 15 feet away from you. Yesterday was no different for me. I jumped on a boat headed south to the Caverns site and adjacent walls. There's all kinds of stuff going...

Phase one of our solar power project is now complete and producing clean energy for the resort. 56 panels are now on-line and are capable of producing 13 kilowatts of power an hour. There will be two more phases to the project and when finished, we will have something on the order of 224 panels...

Julie Hartup is back on island for Thanksgiving week, more manta research and data collecting as well as some general yapping around. The Manta Ray Bay helps this project with daily ID shots and maintaining a manta interaction logbook. Each time a manta is encountered on a dive, if possible, an ID shot is snapped...

We're always more than happy to do something special for our friends.  This time it was Daniel and his wife Marion celebrating her 50th birthday on their recent Yap dive trip. They wanted to have a toast with everybody at the hotel and hosted a social call in the Nautical Weaver Bar. Detlef prepared a...

The whole island has been buzzing with divers - there were about 7 boats running when this week kicked off. For Yap, that's a crowd. The good thing is that those 7 boat groups get to share over 100 miles of barrier reef. Things are running day and night and some Aussies are taking 4...

“She’s no longer with us”.  With those words, my wife Patricia Acker informed us that Anna Filey passed away a few minutes ago at 1 PM, Manila time, in the Intensive Care Unit of Delos Santos Hospital in Quezon City.  Anna has been very sick and in and out of the Yap Hospital for some...

Wir würden uns sehr darüber freuen, wenn Ihr im Rahmen des tauchen award für uns stimmen würdet! Das dauert nur wenige Minuten 1) Einfach hier klicken. 2) E-Mail-Adresse und den rechts abgebildeten Sicherheitscode eingeben. Ein paar Minuten später sollte die Zugangsmail in Deinem Posteingang angekommen sein. Link anklicken um zur Abstimmungs-Seite zu kommen. 3)  Runterscrollen...

If you like Manta Ray Bay Resort & Yap Divers, we would definitely appreciate your vote for Yap Divers as the best dive center of the Indopacific/Pacific. The "tauchen award", which is set up by  scuba diving magazine "tauchen", is the most recognized trophy within the German/Swiss/Austrian diving industry. Even though the website you need...

Urlaubsreisen zu weit abgelegenen Plätzen machen uns oft skeptisch, was die Unterkünfte angeht. Schließlich ist es für uns Brasilianer ganz normal, zwischen 25 und 30 Stunden unterwegs zu sein und von Flugzeug zu Flugzeug zu steigen bis man endlich an den besten Reisezielen des Pazifiks gelandet ist. Einmal angekommen ist alles was man sich wünscht...

Often, a trip to distant places makes us apprehensive about the conditions for hosting. After all, it is common for Brazilians have to spend 25 to 30 hours hopping from plane to plane to get the most coveted destinations in the Pacific, and all we want when we get there , besides diving , is...

Frequentemente, uma viagem a lugares distantes para mergulhar deixa a gente apreensivo sobre as condições de hospedagem que eu e Nalu vamos encontrar. Afinal, é comum para os brasileiros terem de passar 25, 30 horas pulando de avião em avião para chegar aos destinos mais cobiçados do Pacífico, e tudo o que a gente quer...

Nota de José Truda: Muitos de nossos amigos no Brasil que não lêem Inglês ficaram curiosos com o post feito pelo Bill Acker sobre o nosso casamento em Yap. Com desculpas pela demora, aqui vai uma tradução do texto - hilário porém fiel - que o Bill preparou contando como foi a nossa belíssima festa...