Beyond Komodo Critter Cruise
Date: 10/10/10 – 20/10/10
The Report
It was really interesting to be back on the boat where I started my first full liveaboard work as the head divemaster onoard Sea Safari 3 for Kararu back in 2000 where the Kararu folks had whisked me away from Wakatobi Dive Resort with the lure of Liveaboard diving adventures on the islands of Komodo, Flores, Alor and later on the exploration trips round Irian Jaya too.
The cheery captain Pak Yan was still onboard Sea Safari 3 and had been calling and sending me text messages asking me about the intended route. It was great to hear that he was still really keen and cheerful as ever. I was surprised to see Sonny (the engineer) still onboard as well, just about all the crew had since moved on and many of the crew were very new. The boat, Sea Safari is fundamentally still the same with a few slight changes onboard. Sea Safari 3 being the oldest in the fleet for Sea Safari looks a little rough round the edges but it still makes a great dive platform and once everyone had been ushered to their cabins they all came out smiling. The level of comfort and the amount of space we all had was fantastic.
Sea Safari do not have any dedicated dive staff which works ok for me as I can bring onboard my own dive crew to suit each particular trip I make onboard the Sea Safari fleet. I had brought onboard one of the Indonesian guides who had always looked our clients for Bali trips when I was unavailable. Menyun had previously worked for Bali Scuba and we would only book with them for our clients when Menyun was available and the reports always can back with great praises for his professional manner, spotting abilities and his knowledge of marine life. Now Menyun freelances and will be working with Diving 4 Images on many future trips throughout Indonesia!
This wasn’t going to be your average Komodo trip, far from it! Onboard were a group of hardcore critter lovers who had been asking me for over 5 years to take them to dive nothing other than Bima and Sangaeng island, two of my personal favourites that are on the standard Komodo Liveaboard route. I had wanted to do this trip for years and somehow we always ended up elsewhere. I’ve took many trips and spent many days non stop diving in these areas.
Starting of in the islands north of Labuan Bajo, just for some exploration diving. I checked out a few spots and the second spot I checked had all the right habitat for good critter diving, I continued and checked a few others spots but this second spot was the chosen site. Our first dive revealed a few cool macro subjects but we all amazed at the big fish life that came by. An eagle zipped by a few divers, there was a giant thorny back stingray and a school of yellow striped jacks as well. The critter was not the best we had seen but with such an interesting habitat we had to check it out again at night…
Wind blew up a little too much so we moved to the other side of the island. Here we found another spot that looked like it could be a good habitat for small critters. On entry there was a mild current, though the current picked up and made the dive a little awkward to say the least. After 60 minutes the current the subsided and a few of us managed to find a few nudibranchs we hadn’t yet noted including the giant bizarrely named Asteronutus cespitosus, there were big lobster and a few other including a very unusual crab that was making its home in the large barrel sponges, not one of the small porcelain crabs, this was a much larger crab with slight purple markings. I’ll be keeping a look out for this on future trips for sure…
The weather on Sangeang turned out to be perfect and marine life was amazing, especially for nudibranchs and weird animals, which was exactly what we were looking for. There were only a few juvenile frogfish, we didn’t find any larger adults anywhere on Sangeang but they were seen in Bima. Of the ghost pipefish family we had plenty, a few different coloured ornate ghost pipefish, most of which were on new sites too, there was the usual robust, delicate, there were even some of what I think were the long tail ghost pipefish Solenostromus armatus, there was also a lovely velvety looking ghost pipefish too! A couple of the usual super hot critter sites didn’t perform at all so we only made one dive on these, even so we still found at least one really cool or totally new animal on every dive. However, a few other new spots came up with many amazing new critters, quite a few totally new to me as well! A few of the reefs we dived weren’t just mucky critter sites, there were also spectacular reef scenic dives as well. Bubble Reef was perfect with about 25-30m visibility and buzzing with small fish, Deep Purple was a bit of a wash out and we ended up in a drift dive, discovering some really interesting fish filled coral reef spurs from 14-20m and during the drift we even saw a few big eagle rays cruise by.
We had planned one of my favourite dive sites on this island for unique species and many really interesting nocturnal nudibranchs, though the tides weren’t going to be right, I wanted to avoid current, we had already been caught out once on Mentjeng Wall so I didn’t want any more current, especially on a night dive. We moved over to Bima and dived one of my old favourite sites in the mouth of the bay for a late night dive. It was good with a few interesting nudibranchs and a pair of huge ornate ghost pipefish. I always feel so sorry for ghost pipefish at night as they get so easily blinded by dive lights and especially strobes. I usually ask dives not to shoot them at night for this very reason but the temptation for most is just too hard to pass by. As this site was good but not excellent as it used to be I moved the boat deeper into the bay for some more serious critter hunting, where I knew we were going to find some other critters we had yet to find on this trip and hopefully a few more totally new animals as well!
We woke in Bima with another dive boat close by, this was the first other boat we saw the whole time out on this trip. I headed over to find out where the other boat planned to dive so I could choose alternative sites. There are so many great sites in this bay that it’s stupid to drop divers on top of another group here. We found a few really interested animals in the bay here, the list was great and on every dive we found something new. There was one really interesting nudibranch (see photo below) that we were unable to find any close ID on in any of the books we had.
- Just one of the new nudis to me. It could be Chromodoris tumulifera, thanks to Terry Gosliner for pointing me in the right direction. Not yet photographed in Indonesia on Nudipixel anyway!
We were really hanging out for more diving around Sangaeng so we headed out of Bima and over to the majestic volcano once more. I headed to another place we had yet to dive on this trip and divers were still amazed at the number and variety of sites this island had to offer. Again even more new species of nudibranch to add to our list and even more cool critters too! On our last day for a possible night dive conditions were just right and we eventually managed to dive on another of my favourite sites, this time my favouite site for nocturnal animals. I really wanted to dive this so much and as it turned out, it was off the charts. Not only was it great for critter action at night, there were a few divers who opted for a day dive and loved this site for the reef scenery and fish life too!
On our very last day, I wanted to try and go out with a bang. There were a few new sites we had dived previously that I wanted to check out again as we had been finding lots of really tiny nudibranchs and other tiny critters. As not everyone is into the super tiny critters I organized the diving so one group could go for a few larger animalsand one group for the tiny which I led on a site we decided to call Small Wonders while Menyun led other group at Sangeang Rox which is more of a reef dive with bommies scattered with lots of gorgeous black coral bushes and a great variety of coral, fish and some larger critters… Our dive on Small Wonders turned out to be non stop critter after critter with a tiny harlequin shrimp, a few different ghost pipefish and we only covered a distance of about 30m width and 20m depth the whole dive. Our group photographer Jayne who was new with her Canon G11 didn’t know where to turn next, poor Jayne went from critter to critter and had so many subjects it was hard to know who to go to next! What a great way to make our final dive!
In all we saw more critters on this trip than we had seen in many years diving in all other locations. Keep a watchful eye out for more forthcoming Sangeang Critter Cruises…
Guest Comments
Comments will be added soon, in short there were rave reviews from all on this, even Menyun, our dive guide with thousands of dives round Bali, many more in Wakatobi and other ares said “wow, Sangeang, I don’t what to say, it’s too much”.
The species list from this trip so far:
1 Aegiris villosus
2 Aeolidiella sp. red very shaggy nudi on orange sponge jayne ?
3 Aoelidiella alba jayne photo
4 Aplysia dactylomela
5 Aplysia parvula
6 Armina cf. semperi jayne photo
7 Asteronotus cespitosus
8 Asteronotus hepaticus
9 Ategema intecta
10 Ategema sp.? Blue spongy dorid
11 Berghia major
12 Bornella hermanni
13 Caloria indica
14 Ceratosoma tenue
15 Ceratosoma trilobatum
16 Cerberilla sp.? All white, blue tips & oral tentacles jayne photo
17 Chelidonura amoena
18 Chelidonura hirundinina
19 chelidonura pallida
20 Chelidonura varians
21 Chromodoris annae
22 Chromodoris cf verrieri orange/red mantle edge jayne photo
23 Chromodoris cf. sp.1
24 Chromodoris cf. strigata jayne photo?
25 Chromodoris coi
26 Chromodoris collingwoodi
27 Chromodoris elizabethina
28 Chromodoris fidelis
29 Chromodoris geometrica
30 Chromodoris hintuanensis
31 Chromodoris kuniei
32 Chromodoris leopardus
33 Chromodoris magnifica
34 Chromodoris preciosa
35 Chromodoris reticulata
36 Chromodoris setoensis
37 Chromodoris strigata
38 Chromodoris verrieri
39 Costasiella kuroshimae
40 Costasiella usagi
41 Cratena cf. affinis tiny (maybe jayne photo)
42 Cuthona sibogae
43 Cuthona sp.? Cerata white at middle green outer Jayne photo
44 Cuthona sp.? Deep red, purple pink, blue, orange
45 Cuthona sp.36 jayne photo bima
46 Cuthona sp.36 jayne photo sangaeng
47 Cuthona sp? Green/yellow (Jayne photo)
48 Cuthona yamasui
49 Cyerce cf. sp.1 Clear white tips to cerata brown rhinophores
50 Cyerce kikutarobabai
51 Cyerce sp.? Dotted jayne photo
52 Dendrodoris denisoni
53 Dendrodoris gutatta
54 Dermatobranchus albus
55 Dermatobranchus ornatus
56 Dermatobranchus sp.? Jayne photo white/grey
57 Dermatobranchus sp.10
58 Dermatobranchus sp.12
59 Dermatobranchus sp.7
60 Discodoris boholensis
61 Dorid black & white spotted jayne photo
62 Dorid transparent spotted purple on body, purple & orange dots & white mantle edge
63 Doto cf. sp.7
64 Doto rosacea
65 Doto sp.? Bright red long cerata jayne photo
66 Elysia cf. tormentosa brown hairy algae looking
67 Elysia furvacauda
68 Elysia ornata
69 Elysia sp.? All white large parapodia, moved jerkily forward
70 Elysia sp.? Mainly blue with white & blue rhino jayne photo
71 Elysia sp.10 white moves jerkily
72 Elysia sp.13
73 Elysia sp.2
74 Eubranchus mandapamensis? Jayne photo
75 Eubranchus sp.1
76 Eubranchus sp.13
77 Eubranchus sp.3
78 Eubranchus sp.4
79 Eubranchus ussi?
80 Facelina sp.
81 Facelinid sp.? Fuzzy brown cerata & spotted oral tentacles jayne
82 Facelinid unknown white, translucent, bright orange tips jayne photo
83 Favorinus japanicus
84 Favorinus pacificus
85 Favorinus sp.? Jayne photo
86 Favorinus tsuruganus
87 Flabellina bicolor
88 Flabellina bilas
89 Flabellina cf. sp4 jayne photo
90 Flabellina exoptata
91 Flabellina riwo
92 Flabellina rubrolineolata
93 Flabellina sp.
94 Flabellina sp.
95 Flabellina sp.2
96 Glossodoris atromarginata
97 Glossodoris cincta
98 Glossodoris pallida
99 Glossodoris rufomarginata
100 Godiva sp.2
101 Gymnodoris cf. sp.1 jayne photo
102 Gymnodoris cf. sp.16 jayne photo
103 Gymnodoris citrina
104 Gymnodoris nigricolor
105 Gymnodoris rubropapulosa
106 Gymnodoris translucent white sp.
107 Halgerda albocristata
108 Halgerda batangas
109 Halgerda carlsoni
110 Hexabranchus sanguineus
111 Hypselodoris bullocki
112 Hypselodoris emma
113 Hypselodoris infucata
114 Hypselodoris maculosa
115 Hypselodoris nigrostriata
116 Hypselodoris reidi
117 Hypselodoris sagamiensis jayne photo white with spots
118 Hypselodoris whitei
119 Hypselodoris zephyra
120 Hyselodoris apolegma
121 Hyselodoris sp.2
122 Hyselodoris Thorunna sp. Mainly white with spots, orange rhino&gills Jayne photo
123 Jorunna alisonae or ategema ? Brown spiky spongy jayne photo
124 Jorunna funebris
125 Jorunna parva
126 Jorunna rubescens
127 Lomanotus sp.2
128 Lomanotus sp.4
129 Lomanotus white with black edge
130 Marionia elongoreticula
131 Marionia sp. Pute white covered in lots of cerata, jayne photo
132 Marionia sp.10
133 Marionia sp.7 Jayne photo
134 Mexichromis multituberculata
135 Moridilla brockii
136 Moridilla sp.
137 Nembrotha cf. yonowae
138 Nembrotha chamberlaini
139 Nembrotha cristata
140 Nembrotha kubaryana
141 Nembrotha lineolata
142 Nembrotha sp. Green gills, black rhinophores, bright red spots
143 Notobryon like elysia jayne photo?
144 Notobryon sp. Clear jayne photo?
145 Noumea crocea
146 Noumeaella rehderi
147 Ontoglaja guamensis
148 Paradoris liturata
149 Pectenodoris trilineolata
150 Petalifera ramosa
151 Phestilla minor
152 Philinopsis gardineri
153 Philinopsis pilsbry
154 Philinopsis speciosa
155 Phyllidia coelestis
156 Phyllidia ocellata
157 Phyllidia picta
158 Phyllidia pustulosa
159 Phyllidia varicosa
160 Phyllidiella granulata
161 Phyllidiella lizae
162 Phyllidiopsis annae
163 Phyllidiopsis cf. annae with 5 blue lines & dots on edge
164 Phyllidiopsis shireenae
165 Phyllodesmium briareum
166 Phyllodesmium cf. iriomotense jayne photo
167 Phyllodesmium colemani
168 Phyllodesmium crypticum
169 Phyllodesmium koehleri
170 Phyllodesmium lizardensis jayne photo
171 Phyllodesmium macphersonae jayne photo
172 Plakobranchus ocellata
173 Plakobranchus sp.? Jayne photo
174 Platydoris cf. inornata jayne photo?
175 Platydoris cinerbranchiata
176 Platydoris sanguinea
177 Pleurobranchus forskalii
178 Plocamorpherus ceylonicus
179 Plocamorpherus pecoso
180 Pteriollidia ianthina
181 Risbecia pulchella
182 Risbecia tryoni Jayne photo
183 Roboastra gracilis
184 Sagaminopteron psychedelicum
185 Sakuraeolis cf. kirembosa jayne photo
186 Sclerodoris tuberculata
187 Siphopteron sp. All white
188 Siphopteron sp. All white with small black/orange patch on back
189 Small brown looks like Aegiris on night mentjeng wall
190 Sohgenia palauensis cf. jayne photo
191 Stylocheilus striatus
192 Sypopteron brunneomarginatum jayne photo
193 Taringa halgerda
194 Thecacera pacifica
195 Thecacera sp.3
196 Thecacera sp.6
197 Thorunna australis
198 Thorunna cf. halouga jayne photo
199 Thorunna daniellae
200 Thorunna sp. orange edge jayne photo
201 Thuridilla albopustulosa
202 Thuridilla carlsoni
203 Thuridilla cf. undula maybe jayne photo
204 Thuridilla flavomaculata
205 Thuridilla gracilis
206 Thuridilla indopacifica
207 Thuridilla lineolata
208 Thuridilla sp, black/white stripes no colour on rhinophores
209 Trapania armilla jayne photo
210 Trapania skurra
211 Trapania vitta
212 Tritonia cf. sp.6
213 Tritonia sp.4
214 Unknown brown ategema spiky looking nudi jayne photo
215 Unknown brown facelinid like jayne photo
Big thanks to all on this trip for helping with finding and helping to identify many of these nudibranchs. An even BIGGER thanks to our team photographer Jayne Bruner for all her efforts with her new camera – keep up the great work!
Here is the complete species list:
1 Aegiris exeches
2 Aegiris sp.2
3 Aegiris villosus
4 Aeolidiella sp. red very shaggy nudi on orange sponge jayne ?
5 Aoelidiella alba jayne photo
6 Aplysia dactylomela
7 Aplysia parvula
8 Armina cf. semperi jayne photo
9 Asteronotus cespitosus
10 Asteronotus hepaticus
11 Asteronotus mimeticus
12 Atagema/sclerodoris grey with lump on back
13 Ategema intecta
14 Ategema sp.? Blue spongy dorid
15 Berghia major
16 Berthellina ??
17 Bills pink dorid
18 Bornella hermanni
19 Bornella stellifer
20 Bursastella leachii
21 Caloria indica
22 Carminodoris estrelyado
23 Ceratosoma gracililium
24 Ceratosoma sinuata
25 Ceratosoma tenue
26 Ceratosoma trilobatum
27 Cerberilla sp.? All white, blue tips & oral tentacles jayne photo
28 Chelidonura amoena
29 Chelidonura black spots no white on front
30 Chelidonura hirundinina
31 chelidonura pallida
32 Chelidonura varians
33 Chromodoris annae
34 Chromodoris bouchetti
35 Chromodoris burni?
36 Chromodoris cf verrieri orange/red mantle edge jayne photo
37 Chromodoris cf. Michaeli (Jayne photo)
38 Chromodoris cf. sp.1
39 Chromodoris cf. strigata jayne photo?
40 Chromodoris coi
41 Chromodoris collingwoodi
42 Chromodoris elizabethina
43 Chromodoris fidelis
44 Chromodoris geometrica
45 Chromodoris hintuanensis
46 Chromodoris inornata
47 Chromodoris joshi ?
48 Chromodoris kuniei
49 Chromodoris leopardus
50 Chromodoris lochi
51 Chromodoris magnifica
52 Chromodoris preciosa
53 Chromodoris reticulata
54 Chromodoris setoensis
55 Chromodoris sp. Light blue body, dark blue stripes white edge, yellow rhinophores jayne photo
56 Chromodoris sp. White, yellow dots, black rhinophores
57 Chromodoris striatella Jayne photo
58 Chromodoris strigata
59 Chromodoris verrieri
60 Chromodoris willani
61 Colpadospis thompsoni
62 Costasiella kuroshimae
63 Costasiella usagi
64 Cratena cf. affinis tiny (maybe jayne photo)
65 Cratena white ?
66 Cuthona sibogae
67 Cuthona sp.? Cerata white at middle green outer Jayne photo
68 Cuthona sp.? Deep red, purple pink, blue, orange
69 Cuthona sp.36 jayne photo sangaeng
70 Cuthona sp? Green/yellow (Jayne photo)
71 Cuthona yamasui
72 Cyerce cf. sp.1 Clear white tips to cerata brown rhinophores
73 Cyerce kikutarobabai
74 Cyerce sp.? Dotted jayne photo
75 Dendrodoris denisoni
76 Dendrodoris fumata
77 Dendrodoris gutatta
78 Dendrodoris.Caryophyllidia dorid/halaxa like grey/ornage blotches jayne photo
79 Dermatobranchus albus
80 Dermatobranchus ornatus
81 Dermatobranchus sp. White orange rhinophores & mouth
82 Dermatobranchus sp.? Jayne photo white/grey
83 Dermatobranchus sp.10
84 Dermatobranchus sp.12
85 Dermatobranchus sp.7
86 Discodoris boholensis
87 Dolabela auricularia
88 Dorid black & white spotted jayne photo
89 Dorid transparent spotted purple on body, purple & orange dots & white mantle edge
90 Doto cf. sp.7
91 Doto rosacea
92 Doto sp./ redish brown Jayne photo
93 Doto sp.? Bright red long cerata jayne photo
94 Elysia cf. sp.24 moved like a stiliger
95 Elysia cf. tormentosa brown hairy algae looking
96 Elysia furvacauda
97 Elysia ornata
98 Elysia sp.? All white large parapodia, moved jerkily forward
99 Elysia sp.? Mainly blue with white & blue rhino jayne photo
100 Elysia sp.10 white moves jerkily
101 Elysia sp.13
102 Elysia sp.2
103 Elysia sp.20
104 Eubranchus mandapamensis? Jayne photo
105 Eubranchus sp.1
106 Eubranchus sp.13
107 Eubranchus sp.3
108 Eubranchus sp.4
109 Eubranchus ussi?
110 Facelina sp.
111 Facelinid 2 Nannettes photo
112 Facelinid sp.? Fuzzy brown cerata & spotted oral tentacles jayne
113 Facelinid unknown white, translucent, bright orange tips jayne photo
114 Favorinus japanicus
115 Favorinus pacificus
116 Favorinus sp.? Jayne photo
117 Favorinus tsuruganus
118 Flabellina bicolor
119 Flabellina bilas
120 Flabellina cf. sp4 jayne photo
121 Flabellina exoptata
122 Flabellina riwo
123 Flabellina rubrolineolata
124 Flabellina sp.
125 Flabellina sp.2
126 Flabellina sp.4 jayne photo
127 Flabellina sp.6 jayne photo
128 Glossodoris atromarginata
129 Glossodoris cf. sp.3
130 Glossodoris cincta
131 Glossodoris pallida
132 Glossodoris rufomarginata
133 Glossodoris sp. Orange/brown w/white margined Bill photo
134 Glossodoris sp.?+B127 (Jayne photo)
135 Godiva sp.2
136 Goniodorella cf. savignyi
137 Grey like halaxa
138 Gymnodoris cf. sp.1 jayne photo
139 Gymnodoris cf. sp.16 jayne photo
140 Gymnodoris citrina
141 Gymnodoris nigricolor
142 Gymnodoris rubropapulosa
143 Gymnodoris translucent white sp.
144 Halgerda albocristata
145 Halgerda batangas
146 Halgerda carlsoni
147 Halgerda malesso
148 Hexabranchus sanguineus
149 Hypselodoris bullocki
150 Hypselodoris cf sp.5 Pale purple dots on edge, white lines on body
151 Hypselodoris emma
152 Hypselodoris infucata
153 Hypselodoris maculosa
154 Hypselodoris maritima
155 Hypselodoris nigrostriata
156 Hypselodoris or thorunna.sp
157 Hypselodoris reidi
158 Hypselodoris sagamiensis jayne photo white with spots
159 Hypselodoris whitei
160 Hypselodoris zephyra
161 Hyselodoris apolegma
162 Hyselodoris sp.2
163 Hyselodoris Thorunna sp. Mainly white with spots, orange rhino&gills Jayne photo
164 Jaynes brown lumpy sclerodoris like platydoris
165 Jorunna alisonae or ategema ? Brown spiky spongy jayne photo
166 Jorunna funebris
167 Jorunna parva
168 Jorunna rubescens
169 Kaloplocamus peludo
170 Kaloplocamus sp.? Jayne photo?
171 Lomanotus sp.2
172 Lomanotus sp.4
173 Lomanotus white with black edge
174 Marionia elongoreticula
175 Marionia sp. Pute white covered in lots of cerata, jayne photo
176 Marionia sp.10
177 Marionia sp.13
178 Marionia sp.7 Jayne photo
179 Mexichromis multituberculata
180 Moridilla brockii
181 Moridilla sp.
182 Nannettes strange facelinid 1
183 Nembrotha cf. yonowae
184 Nembrotha chamberlaini
185 Nembrotha cristata
186 Nembrotha kubaryana
187 Nembrotha lineolata
188 Nembrotha sp. Green gills, black rhinophores, bright red spots
189 Notobryon like elysia jayne photo?
190 Notobryon sp. Clear jayne photo?
191 Notobryon sp.? Jayne photo
192 Notobryon sp.2
193 Noumea cf. subnivalis jayne photo
194 Noumea crocea
195 Noumea sp.4
196 Noumeaella rehderi
197 Okenia kendi
198 Ontoglaja guamensis
199 P+B56 jayne photo
200 Paradoris liturata
201 Pectenodoris aurora
202 Pectenodoris trilineolata
203 Petalifera ramosa
204 Phestilla minor
205 Philinopsis gardineri
206 Philinopsis pilsbry
207 Philinopsis sp.5
208 Philinopsis speciosa
209 Phylinopsis pilsbry
210 Phyllidia coelestis
211 Phyllidia ocellata
212 Phyllidia picta
213 Phyllidia pustulosa
214 Phyllidia sp.? Jayne photo
215 Phyllidia varicosa
216 Phyllidia white & black patterned
217 Phyllidiella granulata
218 Phyllidiella lizae
219 Phyllidiella nigra
220 Phyllidiopsis annae
221 Phyllidiopsis cardinalis
222 Phyllidiopsis cf. annae with 5 blue lines & dots on edge
223 Phyllidiopsis shireenae
224 Phyllidiopsis striata
225 Phyllodesmium briareum
226 Phyllodesmium cf. iriomotense jayne photo
227 Phyllodesmium colemani
228 Phyllodesmium crypticum
229 Phyllodesmium fluoro
230 Phyllodesmium jacobsonae
231 Phyllodesmium koehleri
232 Phyllodesmium lizardensis jayne photo
233 Phyllodesmium longicirrum
234 Phyllodesmium macphersonae jayne photo
235 Phyllodesmium magnum
236 Phyllodesmium ruddmani
237 Phyllodesmium serratum
238 Phyllodesmium sp? On jetty Air Manis
239 Phylodesmium poindinmiei
240 Plakobranchus ocellata
241 Plakobranchus sp.? Jayne photo
242 Platydoris cf. inornata jayne photo?
243 Platydoris cinerbranchiata
244 Platydoris formosa
245 Platydoris sanguinea
246 Pleurobranchus albiguttatus
247 Pleurobranchus forskalii
248 Pleurobranchus peroni
249 Plocamorpherus ceylonicus
250 Plocamorpherus pecoso
251 Pruvotfolia sp.3 Flabellina sp. Jayne photo reddish
252 Pteriollidia ianthina
253 Red dendrodoris
254 Risbecia pulchella
255 Risbecia sp.2
256 Risbecia tryoni
257 Risbecia tryoni Jayne photo
258 Roboastra gracilis
259 Rostanga sp. Orange blob Jayne photo
260 Sagaminopteron psychedelicum
261 Sakuraeolis cf. kirembosa jayne photo
262 Sclerodoris tuberculata
263 Siphopteron sp. All white
264 Siphopteron sp. All white with small black/orange patch on back
265 Small brown looks like Aegiris on night mentjeng wall
266 Sohgenia palauensis cf. jayne photo
267 Stylocheilus striatus
268 Sypopteron brunneomarginatum jayne photo
269 Taringa halgerda
270 Thecacera pacifica
271 Thecacera picta
272 Thecacera sp.
273 Thecacera sp.3
274 Thecacera sp.4
275 Thecacera sp.6
276 Thorunna australis
277 Thorunna cf. halouga jayne photo
278 Thorunna daniellae
279 Thorunna furtiva
280 Thorunna sp. orange edge jayne photo
281 Thuridilla albopustulosa
282 Thuridilla carlsoni
283 Thuridilla cf. undula maybe jayne photo
284 Thuridilla flavomaculata
285 Thuridilla gracilis
286 Thuridilla indopacifica
287 Thuridilla lineolata
288 Thuridilla sp, black/white stripes no colour on rhinophores
289 Trapania armilla jayne photo
290 Trapania euryeia or tora
291 Trapania skurra
292 Trapania vitta
293 Tritonia cf. sp.6
294 Tritonia sp.4
295 Unknown brown ategema spiky looking nudi
296 Unknown brown facelinid like jayne photo
297 weird lumpy sclerodoris like with weird colours
Sorry for the lack of technical details when referring to some of our unknown species…
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SPECIAL TRIPS
Beyond Komodo 2020
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Fiji 2020
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Triton Bay 2021
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Kalimaya 2021
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Andaman Islands 2016
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Maldives 2016
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Lembeh & Raja Ampat 2016
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Triton Bay Resort Feb 2016
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- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -Diving 4 Images has worked with many of the World's best photographers and film-makers including organisations such as the BBC & Peter Scoones, Imax 3D with Howard Hall Productions, National Geographic with various people including David Doubilet and Tim Laman, along with well renowned photographers like Alex Mustard, Eric Cheng, Norbert Wu, to name just a few. Have a look around the website and find out why...
Since 1997 Graham has been adventure diving around Indonesia and since 2002 Diving 4 Images has been running customised and highly personalised dive trips for professional underwater photographers and film-makers, enthusiasts and those interested in the marine environment. Diving 4 Images has become the dive operator of choice for many of the best dive professionals when they come to Indonesia as well as providing exceptional private charters for groups of divers who want to see the very best Indonesia has to offer.
Join In Trips
We also run a small number of scheduled dive trips each year that anyone can join. With these trips we like to create a unique diving itinerary in areas we know you will enjoy most...
Private Charters
Aside from working with professional shooters at Diving 4 Images we have great interest in the cultural, social, environmental, and adventure aspect of Indonesia. We have arranged lots of different expeditions for private clients who have been looking for personalised adventure expeditions. With these special charters we source the most suitable vessels for as few as two people up to 24 and create an itinerary that is unique to your best wishes, needs and desires...
Your Own Personal Photo Galleries
As part of our your trip we can also create your own photo gallery so some of those precious memories are captured forever. View a gallery from a private adventure expedition.