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Diving 4 Images was established to specialise in creating custom dive adventure and professional expeditions.
We offer a full range of personalised services from one-on-one guiding to full boat charters and expeditions for groups or private yachts. Our business is about creating custom diving expeditions specifically tailored to meet your wishes and desires.
Diving 4 Images is based in Bali, Indonesia
Meet the team:
top "Photo taken by Michael Topolovav")
About Graham Abbott
I was attracted to water ever since I was a young boy growing up in England. My first encounters with marine life were in the tide pools back home where I collected specimens in buckets for close examination. I enjoyed finding strange and unusual things and trying to figure out what they were. It was there I found my first scorpion fish and wondered what kind of strange fish is this?
The thought of ever being a certified diver and diving on a regular basis was originally only a dream. It was something I thought only the very privileged could do. It wasn't until I was living in Jersey and met a few local divers that I had an opportunity to really give SCUBA DIVING a try. Needless to say, that first underwater experience was enough to convince me I needed to get certified and see if I could do more diving.
I was certified a short time later in Florida and after hearing of other diver's travels to exotic locations such as the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia etc., I thought that was where I needed to head as well.
When I made my first dive in Sipadan, I was overwhelmed with the abundance and diversity of Indo-Pacific marine life. I took a keen interest in looking for unusual creatures and found I thoroughly enjoyed showing what I found to other divers -- especially photographers who could capture that image forever. From this day on it was a goal and big dream to be able to work with the worlds best photographers, film makers, the keenest marine life enthusiasts and be able to work with survey teams, all this would mean I would be able to constantly learn about this amazing underwater environment.
Since 1997 I have been a professional dive guide in north Sulawesi, West Australia, the Wakatobi island group, Komodo, Irian Jaya, the eastern islands of the Nusa Tengarra like Flores, Alor & beyond, through the Banda Sea, of course my home island of Bali and since 2005 I have been leading trips various areas of Papua New Guinea. It has been a dream come true to be able to work with some of the worlds' best underwater photographers, journalists, film makers, marine life enthusiasts and for sure I would enjoy the opportunity to work with you, showing you the real treats of underwater Indonesia!
I eventually learned what that strange fish in the tide pool was back home.
Diving 4 Images is now my dream job come true...
 "Dwi Sawitri")
About Dwi Sawitri
Dwi is from Java and was the inspiration for Diving 4 Images. Dwi is the driving force behind Diving 4 Images and Graham. It was only when Graham met Dwi that he decided he wanted to commit to something long term, stay in one place, settle down and start his own business. Dwi has been looking after everything other than the diving from the very beginning of Diving 4 Images. You name it behind the business and Dwi is the one doing it all!
Oh and yes, Dwi is also a very keen diver and has done the whole nine yards including becoming a PADI open water scuba diving instructor and she's a great spotter too! Dwi has dived just about all the best places in Indonesia and from to time makes it out on Diving 4 Images expeditions.
 "Yann")
About Yann (Rahmat Alfian)
Yann (Rahmat Alfian) is from the island of Lombok. Yan started his live aboard diving onboard Perintis, he then moved to work for Grand Komodo Tours, then worked on Komodo Dancer for over 3 years in the Komodo National Park as the Komodo Dancer's number one Divemaster & critter spotter extraordinaire. It was whilst on Diving 4 Images charters with Komodo Dancer where Graham first met Yan, they soon found that they both shared a great passion for critter diving and finding new and unusual species. Graham and Yan have worked together on many charters over the past years. Yan also guides divers round Bali, many divers have taken 2nd and 3rd trips back in Bali with Yan as their dive guide and we are very proud to have Yan working with us.
Why choose Diving 4 Images...
Of course why should anyone want to dive with an operator they may not have even heard of? This should the first question that needs to be answered. So who indeed are we and why have you not heard of us... First and foremost we do not make big external marketing, much of our business comes in from word of mouth, which has brought us many great friends in the diving industry. We are a small and highly personalised specialist diving operation. Our speciality is in expert underwater guiding and the organisation of dive expeditions and logistics for divers wanting or needing the best!Think about who has dived with us and then see why they chose to utilise Diving 4 Images. Who do the professional divers chose when they come to Indonesia on big projects and who are the top photographers using at the moment? The diving industry changes a lot, live aboard dive boats get old, often great dive guides get bored, get out of the industry or simply move from place to place, what we offer is guaranteed, reliable, expert guidance every time on every expedition. We also arrange and provide logistical support for many dive industry professionals. We guide a whole range of divers and even travellers wanting nothing more than a good, safe boat for a special cruise. We deal with a with photographic clubs, professional and amateur film makers, professional photo journalists, marine life enthusiasts of all levels and even recently guiding onboard super yachts where the owner wanted nothing but the best possible guidance for his Indonesian expeditions.
Just to give you an idea of who has dived with us, see below:
- The European magazine GEO arranged a recent expedition with Diving 4 Images, Dr Mark Erdmann, Dr. Gerry Allen, a scientific team and freelance photographer Tim Laman for a new story to come out in the not so distant future in GEO magazine - keep checking out GEO for a hot new story!
- We have consulted, organised & directed a boat charter for the BBC
for recent footage for the Shallow Seas
episode of Planet Earth that was aired in the England, November 2006.
Click here to read what the BBC's number coral reef film maker says about us. -
National Geographic have have used Diving 4 Images for a few
different projects within Indonesia.
Click here to read what one team said about their expedition with us. - One of the worlds hottest and most cutting edge talents in the underwater photography scene, Dr Alex Mustard has used Diving 4 Images 3 times recently for trips organised by DiveQuest with Alex as group leader and also for Alex's own special project work.
- We have arranged special charters for scientific survey teams with Graham as the dive expedition director, our first survey went so well they led to even more scientific charters with Graham as dive expedition coordinator and expedition vessel director.
- From the first charter mentioned above we then arranged 2 very special expeditions for Conservation International with the worlds leading experts in underwater marine life. Dr. Gerry Allen who has written many of the fish identification books for the Indo-Pacific has joined 2 of these charters and will be joining us again January 2007 for yet another trip to the Fakfak area. Word spread so fast about this new region being one of the final frontiers that even David Doubilet called us up to ask to be included on one of our special expeditions. Click here to read what David Doubilet had to say!
- Other professional photographers have used Diving 4 Images when they have been in need of specific photographs to go towards forthcoming books.
- Another expedition we have going soon is a special Wetpixel trip with Wetpixel's own Eric Cheng and none other than Norbert Wu joining us in this new area of Fakfak and the southern part of the Raja Ampat known as Misool.
- We have led private luxury yacht expeditions where the boat owner wanted nothing but the best guide possible as his personal assistant and photographic helper and critter spotter.
- Graham was asked to guide a special 3 week charter along with Indonesia's critter diving legend Larry Smith guiding Stan Waterman and his group of friends!
- Take a look into our gallery pages to see some of the photography from our expeditions and see what we have seen in each region that we dive regularly!
Diving 4 Images is the pioneering and only operator so far to offer recreational diving charters and regular expeditions to the Fakfak region. We have located many excellent dive sites within this area and very recently found lots of excellent critter sites to go with all those fantastic fishy dive sites we found on the first expedition.