Trawangan Dive: turtle

Friday, 25 May 2012

AWARE Month Success

In April 2012 Trawangan Dive signed up to participate in Project Aware's 100% AWARE month. During April’s Big Shark Shout Out, we joined with other divers worldwide and called for greater protection from overexploitation: overfishing, finning, and bycatch. Throughout the whole month of April we set up lots of different events in order to promote and increase awareness of Project AWARE's big shark shout out!

All the Staff getting involved

Trawangan Dive's 100% AWARE promotional video:

During April we thought it would be a good idea to go viral and make a video that would get peoples attention and help raise awareness for Sharks. At the time we had two Divemaster Trainee's Nick and Helen who were both hearing impaired so we thought we'd get the message across in Sign Language! They taught all the Instructors and Divemasters various amounts of sign language, some of which couldn't have been included in the video! A big thanks to all the staff at Trawangan Dive who took part in the video, we all had great fun making it! Please like and share our video to help get our message out there!

Finely's Trip to Gili Trawangan:
We were very pleased during the month of April to receive a visit from Project Aware's very own Finely the shark. Finley is touring the world to rally support for shark conservation and encouraging people from around the world to sign the Shark petition! For you to save the Sharks please sign Projects Aware's Shark Petition by visiting Trawangan Dive's Facebook Page. During Finley's visit, we got him involved in all the action from diving against debris and joining us on our divemasters snorkel tests!

Look who's arrived!

Finley joins in the fun of Nick and Helen's Divemaster Snorkel Test!

100% AWARE Quiz Night:

During Trawangan Dive's weekly Quiz night we decided during the month of April to base the Quiz around Project Aware. Thanks to our Instructors James Wells and Jo Hurford, for organising and hosting the Quiz. Included in the quiz was a sock puppet round were by Jo and James had previously filmed themselves acting various films for our amusement! It was then audience's turn to guess the film it was from, the films included Jaws to Finding Nemo! Other rounds included Fish charades (James making a fool out of himself), General ocean facts, Project Aware facts and other Conservation facts. The quiz was a great turn out, thanks to all who came and joined in the fun and made a donation towards Project Aware.

James hosting Project Aware Quiz Night

If you would like further information on this great cause and how you can become apart of it please email us at info@trawangandive.com or visit http://www.projectaware.org/

Tuesday, 6 March 2012

Diving at Shark Point

Shark Point is one of the most popular dive sites around the Gili Islands. Situated on the North of Gili Trawangan it is one of the most varied and interesting dive sites. The site starts with a sloping reef going down to 30 metres with a series of ridges of valleys which leads you to deeper water. Being a sloping reef means it is available to all levels of diver certification. It has an abundance of marine life, with Turtles almost being a guarantee to see! About 25 metres deep within the ridges is where white tip and black tip reef sharks are to be found. Along with Jacks, Barracuda, Angelfish, Snapper and Blue Spotted Sting rays are all commonly seen.

Dive Sites around the Gili's

Phils group was the first to Descend, they all got into their equipment whilst Phil gave the Pre-Dive safety check. Once everyone was ready to go they did a backwards roll entry into the crystal clear Gili water! After clearing their masks at the surface they slowly descended down the slope to reach the depth of 30 metres! It is safe to say Shark Point lived up to its name during this dive and certainly didn't disappoint!

About ten minutes into the dive Phil came across two white tip reef sharks which they were only about one metre away from!! The group also came across a blue spotted sting ray and a big group of snappers! Nearing the end of the dive in about 12 metres of water before coming up to do the safety stop, three or four turtles were seen feeding away at the coral, it was the perfect ending to what was to be another great dive at Shark Point!