Location

The latitude and longitude of Palau are about 7 degrees north and 134 degrees east. The archipelago lies within the much larger group of thousands of islands that make up Micronesia, which means “tiny islands.” Approximately 800 kilometers north of New Guinea, southeast of the Philippines, and southwest of Guam, Palau consists of roughly 500 islands.

Climate

Palau has a maritime tropical climate with a large amount of rainfall. The average daily temperature for the year is 81℉ (28℃), while the relative humidity is about 82%. An annual average of 381 centimeters of rain falls on Palau, feeding into the rivers and streams and adding to the humidity. Wind direction shifts occur with the trade winds blowing from the northeast and east from November to May. Then the monsoon winds come up from the southwest from June to September.

Shark Sanctuary

Palau has declared itself as the world’s first shark sanctuary. In 2009, it launched the Palau Shark Sanctuary to do its part in fighting for an end to shark finning in Palau and around the globe.
(For more details, see: http://www.sharksanctuary.com/)

UNESCO World Heritage

Palau’s Rock Islands were listed as a World Heritage Site in 2012. Many of the 445 uninhabited limestone islands of volcanic origin the southern lagoon have unique mushroom-like shapes, surrounded by turquoise water and coral reefs.

The site’s incredible beauty is made even more impressive by the complex reef system, featuring over 385 species of coral as well as a wide array of ecosystems. This is home to a great diversity of plants, birds and marine life, including dugong and at least thirteen shark species.
(For more details, see: http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1386)

Diving in Palau

Palau is known as one of the planet’s best places to be underwater. Its dive sites attract visitors for all sorts of reasons, including huge schools of fish, plenty of sharks, and healthy reefs, as well as wrecks of the Second World War and the world-famous Jellyfish Lake and Blue Corner.

Most months the water temperature is around 30℃. Only from February to March does it occasionally drop to about 26℃. Average underwater visibility is roughly 20 meters but sometimes goes up to 40 meters! From July to September, heavy rains and strong winds can brings a drop in visibility to between 15 and 20 meters.

Major Dive Sites

Palau features about 30 major dive sites, from walls and tunnels to channels and wrecks.

Here are just a few of the most famous of these sites:

Blue Corner

The most famous dive site in Palau is Blue Corner, mainly for it schools of all sorts of fish. Here you can not only expect to meet great numbers of jacks, black fin barracudas and snappers, but you’ll also see sharks, tunas, wahoos, groupers, eagle rays, humphead wrasses (Napoleon fish), green sea turtles and hawksbill turtles — all in a single dive! And if you’re lucky you may even see manta rays or sailfish and perhaps even a whale shark! Like many other major dive sites, the currents at Blue Corner are what make it so special.

Blue Hole

Next to Blue Corner — or a northward continuation of this site — is Blue Hole. Four holes (about 5 × 3 meters each) drop down into the huge dome.

Enjoy the Blue Hole experience at depths of 22 to 26 meters as well as the huge horizontal opening (about 25 meters wide and 15 meters height). Choose to see Blue Hole only or drift to Blue Corner from Blue Hole to experience both! (Ask us for details.)

German Channel

This man-made channel cutting through a lagoon to the ocean was made by the Germans before the First World War. Although we’re not permitted to dive inside the actual channel, as it’s too shallow and its currents too fast, we can dive at the mouth of the channel.

This site is famous for its manta rays which frequent the cleaning stations. Their numbers increase during mating season, between November and February.

There is also a huge number of garden eels on the sandy bottom, and eagle rays, grey reef sharks, white tip reef sharks and schools of fish are around too.

The cleaning station lies at a depth of between 18 and 22 meters — a mostly sandy bottom with rocky outcrops.

Grassland (Blue Marlin Original Dive Site)

We were the first to develop this dive site, which is now quite famous. Come and see the impressively vibrant hard coral at Grassland as well as its large patches of coral. At a depth of 20 to 24 meters, you can see a field of garden eels craning their heads into the current to feed along the sandy bottom.

We were first in the world to discover the large spawning grounds of the Bumphead Parrotfish. Several thousands of these fish can be seen 3 to 4 days before a new moon, a very rare phenomenon.

New Drop Off

Descend the vertical wall and start drifting! You’ll see plenty of colorful soft corals and sponges, butterflyfish, angelfish, triggerfish, anemones, grey reef sharks and yellowtail fusiliers. What’s more, the W-shaped corner provides a great current, with an abundance of fish and sharks around. Humphead wrasses (Napoleon fish) are also common here, and the reef area is frequented by turtles.

Ulong Channel

This shallow channel through Ulong Island’s lagoon is where we dive from the outer reef inward or the other way around, depending on the current and tide. Usually, we start at the outer reef wall, where you can enjoy beautiful coral and big schools of butterfly fish and yellowtail fusiliers as well as turtles.

At the channel’s mouth, stop to check out the grey reef sharks and barracudas. After that, you’re funneled into the channel, which has a shallow sandy bottom scattered with coral. Its maximum depth is just 14 meters (average: 10 meters), and you can drift without fin kicks.

With slopes on both sides, you will feel as though you are walking in a canyon. Many divers come to Ulong Channel to see the huge cabbage coral, and schools of jacks and barracudas abound.

The Iro (Wreck)

The Iro was sunk in 1943 during the Second World War and is now Palau’s most famous wreck. It rests upright on the sandy sea floor, 130 feet (40 meters) below the surface.

The ship was 470 feet (143 meters) long and weighed 14,050 tons. Located in the Western Lagoon, only a few kilometers away from Koror, the wreck remains in good condition.

Once you enter the water, you can clearly see the magnificent king posts stretching down to its deck 90 feet (27 meters) below. The posts are surrounded by zigzag clams and soft corals, and its spectacular 5.5-inch gun, covered with black corals, still rests on a large circular mount at the bow. From the bridge superstructure, you can access companionways and see the crew’s quarters, not to mention lion fish and anemones.

Blue Marlin Original Dive Sites

Since our founding, we have been developing new dive sites and now have more than fifteen of these, not only in the south west but also in the north and east.

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March 29 2020

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

You probably already guessed it but it was
lovely weather in paradise again today…

Air temperature: 32C (wear a hat and hydrate!)
Water temperature: 28C

BM7
Operator: Clayton
Guides: Paula / Shohei

① Blue Holes
② Big Drop Off

Today we had a macro kind of day. We spotted
a juvenile regal angelfish and a genormous
nudibranch inside the Blue Hole. There were also
lots of Randall’s Anthias and Princess Anthias!
The visibility was super nice at over 20 metres
and – of course – we had the whole dive site to
ourselves. Which is fun but also slightly creepy.
You just wait for something scary to emerge from
the deep. Nothing emerged though. Safe.

Next we dove Big Drop Off because why not! We
saw two reeeeeeally tiny baby black&white snappers
hiding among the soft coral. They were so cute
I almost couldn’t handle it. Then after hanging
out with the twinspot snappers at 25 metres (yay
Nitrox!) on our way back up we found TWO LONGNOSE
HAWKFISH! Two at once!! So lucky! We also had fun
with lots of little gobies because everybody loves
gobies.

For lunch we stopped at a beautiful scenic beach
and Clayton made chicken soup. Life is good.

Stay healthy everyone!

March 28 2020

Alii from Palau

how you all doing? hope all are

safe and well. this is Clayton doing

dive blog for 03/28/2020.

today was a quiet day out in the dive site,

i only saw one dive boat out there, amazing!

as you already know that most airport has

shut down their opperation and people are

staying home. its feels weird to go out there

and not seeing boats and not seeing divers

under water.

1st dive at German channel with 13m visibility.

as we arrived at the site, it has already outgoing

current. took my time along the bottom looking

for something interesting. of course, the divers

knew about manta, but when i did my briefing

i did not mention about the manta ray. anyway

i found a crocodile fish that my team never seen

one before, thump up. and i show them a lizard

fish that it took awhile for them to spot it. exactly

41mins to our dive a manta ray showed up. not

only one but tree, one big manta and 2 small ones

behind, yahoo! now i can end our dive with a smile

on my team faces.

2nd dive at Blue Corner with 20m visibility.

nice outgoing current that we decided to enter

from the second buoy. came to the hooking point

and hooked in stay and watch fish activity for

about 15mins, but i could tell that the current is

starting to pick up. so we unhooked and went with

the current down the reef. toward the end of the reef

as i was looking for the Napoleon wrasse, i saw 2

big ones close to the surface. so then i knew what

was going on up there, they were doing their thing.

from the distance i could see the school of black

fin barracuda approaching, nice timing.what more

can i say, all the stars of Blue Corner were present.

and dont forget the best part of today was, we were

the only divers in the water during our dive time.

2 thumps up. thank you for your time and see you

next time. Tonton signing out. Happy Diving.

March 27 2020

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

We had really nice weather today.

Air temperature: 32C
Water temperature: 28C

BM3
Operator: Stacy
Guides: Hiro / Paula

Intro: Yu / Shohei

① German Channel
② Blue Holes / Blue Corner
③ Blue Corner

German Channel treated us to a manta
party again today! My team basically
didn’t move for 45 minutes because
two friendly mantas just kept cleaning
and cleaning and cleaning… they must
have been super shiny by the end.

At Blue Holes the visibility was nice
and we had the dive site to ourselves.
We spotted lionfish, eels, turtles, clams,
hairy crabs and bannerfish. A good dive!

Blue Corner is amazing even when there
are other teams in the water but imagine how
amazing it can be WITHOUT other people –
yes, that’s right. Very amazing. We had
strong outgoing current when we entered
which died basically as soon as we made it
to the hooking area but we still saw all
the stars! There were blackfin barracudas,
giant trevallies, blackspot barracudas,
bumphead parrotfish bumping heads, grey
reef sharks, Napoleons, turtles… everything
you could ask for.

I have a feeling we’ll have the dive sites
to ourselves again tomorrow… will let you know!
Have a nice evening!

March 26 2020

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

WE HAD THE BEST DAY TODAY!!!
Okay, weather first…
It was sunny in the morning
but then got cloudy but at least
no rain!

Air temperature: 29C
Water temperature: 28C

BM6
Operator: Stacy
Guides: Hiro / Paula / Shohei

① German Channel
② New Drop Off
③ Blue Corner

Ok so basically this was the best German
Channel ever, there were at least five mantas
chasing each other for mating and it was amazing.
They basically touched our heads several times.

Watch:

Next, New Drop Off. Oh. My. God. I honestly
thought that after that dive at German Channel
it couldn’t get any better but IT DID. I have
no idea where they came from or why (maybe I need
to study more fish behaviour) but there were about
TWO THOUSAND (yes, 2000) Pacific longnose parrotfish
schooling ALL OVER THE REEF. They were EVERYWHERE.
And not only we noticed, but two big ass dog tooth
tunas and several giant trevallies also noticed because
they were hunting them and basically shooting into the
school and there was so much movement all around us
and omg it was the best ever. Period. Picture proof:

And Blue Corner was, well, Blue Corner – awesome! We
had it entirely to ourselves (like all the dive sites
today by the way) and we saw bigeye trevallies, tunas,
Napoleons, turtles, barracudas… see for yourselves:

Special thanks to Mr. Ohara for the lovely pictures today!

I doubt tomorrow can top today but if it can, we’re in for
a wild ride! I can’t wait!

March 25 2020

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

It was cloudy today but the rain only
started on the way back to the hotel.
Lucky us!

Air temperature: 27C
Water temperature: 28C

We went out on one boat.

BM6
Operator: Stacy
Guide: Hiro / Paula / Shohei

① Ulong Cliff
② Grassland
③ Siaes Corner

BULLSHARK AT ULONG CHANNEL! And before
you ask, no, there is no picture. But
I swear it was a bullshark! It was hanging
out deep towards the sand at the entrance
of the channel during strong outgoing current.
I still can’t believe our luck! A BULL SHARK
AT ULONG! Yayyyyy!!!
Other than that there was also a hawksbill
turtle, lots of grey reef sharks and the fusiliers
were especially pretty today.

At Grassland the visibility was nice at about
17 metres and today the sawtooth barracudas put
on quite a show for us. They were circling super
nicely on the sand at “only” 22 metres – luckyyy
for our air team! There were also two separate
schools of whitetongue jacks mingling with bigeye
scads swimming all over the reef.

Here’s a picture of the sawtooth barracudas:

Siaes Corner tricked us – we entered at incoming
current but it changed to outgoing. However, we
persevered and made our way towards the outgoing
side hooking area where we were treated to soooo
many grey reef sharks! There were also lots of
blackspot barracudas, whitetongue jacks and big
eye scads! To finish off an already perfect day
(because bull shark, duh!!) we also got a school of
blackfin barracudas during our safety stop!

Picture for proof:

Thanks to Mr. Arai for the pictures!

Have a great evening and see you tomorrow!

March 24 2020

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

Today was grey and rainy but that made
being underwater even more fun!

Air temperature: 27C
Water temperature: 28C

We went out on one boat.

BM1
Operator: Stacy
Guide: Paula

① Blue Corner
② New Drop Off

We had Ngemelis all to ourselves today.

Literally. I am not exaggerating. There was
not a single other boat. So we started our day
by enjoying a completely deserted Blue Corner.
The current was super strong outgoing but we
didn’t have to worry about drifting in front of
a hooking team or not finding a good hooking spot
and that was pretty nice. There were giant trevallies,
lots of sharks and a huge dogtooth tuna out in the
blue and many more sharks at the hooking area. Recently
there have also been soooo many baby redtooth triggerfish
been all over the reef. They’re so cute, their colour being
slightly paler than the adults but you can still recognise
the little tattoo like pattern on their faces.
As we made our way towards the sandy area we saw schools of
blackspot barracudas, blackfin barracudas and bigeye trevallies!
Today we also had some macro lovers on our team so we also
looked out carefully for spot tail dartfish and bluestreak
gobies on the reef!

New Drop Off was also our private diving site today. Again
the current was nicely outgoing. At the hooking area there
was a lot of action from bluefin trevallies and a large
goldspotted trevally chasing the fusiliers around. A big
school of blackspot barracudas was mingling with a school of
whitetongue jacks that looked like shiny disks in the blue
water. So nice! We also got lots of grey reef sharks that
came up super close. To finish an already perfect dive, we
saw two friendly green sea turtles sleeping next to each other
close to the blue-lined snappers!

Let’s keep our fingers crossed for sunshine tomorrow!

March 23 2020

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

It was a bit cloudy today but the
rainshowers didn’t start until we
were back at the shop! Yay!

Air temperature: 29C
Water temperature: 28C

We went out on two boats.

BM2 – Charter
Operator: Clayton
Guide: Yu

BM2
Operator: Susie
Guides: Tomi / Paula / Shohei

① Grassland
② Siaes Corner
③ Crystal Blue

Grassland treated us to 20 metres
visibility today! Although we didn’t
get a manta there was a beautiful show
of fusiliers being violently chased
around by two bluefin trevallies! The
sawtooth barracudas today hung out at
around 28 metres so we only got to see
them from afar but instead we focused
on some macro – baby Palette surgeonfish
and baby butterflyfish as well as a – not
really baby anymore but definitely still
a toddler – bicolour parrotfish.

When we entered Siaes Corner the current
was strong outgoing at first with beautiful
visibility but then got slower and slightly
murkier as we got to the corner. There were
still loooooots of black snappers, grey reef
sharks, blackspot barracudas, whitetongue
jacks and bigeye scads! Also a brave little
green sea turtle swam out into the sea of
black snappers and grey reef sharks from the
hooking area looking very adventurous!

At Crystal Blue our divers saw lots of gobies –
banded shrimpgobies, signal gobies… a lot
of gobies! Everyone loves gobies!

Let’s hope it’ll be super sunny again tomorrow!

March 22 2020

Alii from Palau

how you all doing? hope all is good!

this is Clayton doing dive blog for 03/22/20

1st dive at Blue Hole with 25m visibility.

we had a good start on this dive. as we

entered another dive group has made their

way out, so we had blue hole for our self..

did 15mins dive inside then exit and make

our way toward blue corner. nice drift

dive, one tank, 2 dive point.

2nd dive at New Drop Off with 30m

visibility. weak outgoing current, so i

went slow giving my team free time

to take photo and do their own thing.

was looking for the eye patch butter fly

and found it. not sure how long this fish

gonna stay at this depth cause this fish

stays at deep depth. all the stars of new drop

were present and again we were the only

boat at the site making it much better. nice.

3rd dive at St. Cardinal with 10m visibility.

this time we change our mode to mcro.

so we were looking for small fish like cobies,

nudibranch and st. cardinal fish. and once

again we were the only boat there, we made

a 58mins dive time. nothing special on this

dive but my guest really enjoyed that dive.

thank you for your time and see you next

time. tonton signing out. happy diving.

March 21 2020

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

The weather is especially nice for
the JAL charter…

Air temperature: 31C
Water temperature: 28C

We went out on one boat.

BM3
Operator: Susie
Guides: Hiro / Paula / Shohei

① Ngemelis Wall
② Blue Corner
③ German Channel

Ngemelis Wall was super busy today.
Busy with soooooooooooo many black
tail snappers! They were hanging out
at their usual spot but less concentrated
than usually – slightly all over the place.
Are you okay, blacktail snappers? Maybe

they’re concerned about the state of the world…
Of course there were also lots of green
sea turtles posing for the cameras, seemingly

less concerned.

Blue Corner at first presented us with an
easygoing incoming current which then turned
to superfast incoming current. There were
soooooooooooo many bigeye trevallies moving
back and forth all around us and lots of
grey reef sharks! Also a dogtooth tuna and
Spanish mackerel chasing the fusiliers around
together with some giant trevallies!

German Channel was amaaaaaaaaaaaaazing! First
thing you’re probably wondering – was there
a manta? No. There were THREE MANTAS. They
were cleaning and swimming super close above
our heads! Yayyyy! When we moved away from
the cleaning station there was a hunting
party going on above our heads! Lots of
unicornfish and giant trevallies and soooo
many gold spotted trevallies were chasing
a baitball of fusiliers! Super dynamic and
fun to watch. As we continued towards the
Peleliu side we also saw a large school of
bigeye trevallies, blackspot barracudas, big
eye scads and ACTUAL BLACKFIN BARRACUDAS!
To top it off, a large school of whitetongue
jacks came up close to us during our safety
stop. Perfect dive!

Let’s hope for more fun stuff tomorrow!
See you then!

March 20 2020

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

The weather was very sunny today
with a few intermittent showers.

Air temperature: 31C
Water temperature: 28C

We went out on one boat.

BM1
Operator: Clayton
Guide: Hiro

① Shark City
② Siaes Corner
③ Ulong Channel

Shark City was an actual shark city today!
Soooo many! Also lots of bigeye trevallies!
Shark and bigeye trevally city! There were
also lots of barracudas!

On the surface our divers met a school of
– wait for it – short-finned pilotwhales AND
spinner dolphins hanging out together!

At Siaes Corner there was a huge dogtooth tuna
and around 20 baby grey reef sharks! So cute!

Ulong Cliff presented the holy trinity of Ulong:
blackspot barracudas, whitetongue jacks and bigeye scads
hanging out together!
At the mouth of the channel there was a baby spotted
eagle ray! The visbility was lovely and our divers
drifted inside the channel on a nice incoming current.
There was also a blue-girdled angelfish!

In the meantime, I serviced a lot of rental regulators.
Happy to report I didn’t break or lose any parts. As of
today, at least. Who knows what tomorrow will bring?

Have a nice evening!

March 19 2020

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

The weather is great!

Air temperature: 32C
Water temperature: 28C

We went out on two boats.

BM6
Operator: Clayton
Guides: Tomi / Yu / Hiro

① Peleliu Corner
② Peleliu Corner
③ Yellow Wall

④ Blue Corner

BM1
Operator: Susie
Guides: Paula / Shohei

① Grassland
② Siaes Corner
③ Ulong Cliff

Our early morning team on BM6 experienced
a spawning festival of the yellow-lined
seabreams in Peleliu! The first two dives
were awesome spawning dives! At Yellow Wall
they found a large school of giant trevallies!

Also Ulong was full of fish today but almost
no divers. A nice ratio I’d say. There were
sooooo many sawtooth barracudas at Grassland!
Also lots of whitetongue jacks and sooo many
fusiliers being chased around by some ferocious
bluefin trevallies and a gold-spotted trevally.

At Siaes Corner the current was out to get us.
When we checked it was super strong incoming
with beautiful visibility – obviously, we went
in from the incoming side. After only 10 minutes
of dynamic drifting we suddenly felt like we hit
a wall and the visibility dropped visibly. Lol.
See what I did there? Anyways, it suddenly turned
to strong outgoing. We persevered and distracted
ourselves with small fish and a hawksbill turtle.
The good news is that schools of bigeye scads,
whitetongue jacks and blackspot barracudas basically
followed us. Thanks for that. At the end the current
just stopped. Why, current, WHY??

Ulong Cliff was amaaaaaaaaaaaaazing! The current was
strong incoming and there was a large school of
baby grey reef sharks FEEDING at the cliff! They
were doing their best to eat some delicious red-bellied
fusiliers! At the same time the adult sharks also
joined in and it made for a super dynamic hunting show!
There was also an African pompano at the cliff! Also
lots of whitetongue jacks and bigeye scads as well as
blackspot barracudas! When we made it to the mouth of
the channel the current had already changed to strong
outgoing – because of course it had. Thank you for
nothing, current. However, there were still lots of
grey reef sharks and a BIGASS (pardon my French) dog
tooth tuna! It came so close! We continued onto the
other side of the channel entrance and had fun with
lots of yellowfin goatfish and yellowspot emperors.

I wonder what we can see tomorrow?

Have a great evening!

March 18 2020

Good evening. It is Hiro.

Palau is still sunny today!
The wind is calm!
It is a diving day!

Operator @ Stacy
Guide Tomi Shohei
① Peleliu Express
② Peleliu cut
③ Yellow wall
④ Yellow Wall

Operator @ Susie
Guide Yu hiro
① New drop off
②Blue corner
③ German channel

Temperature 32 ° C
Water temperature 28 ° C

The new drop-off was clear and had lots of fish.
Phymid butterflyfish was beautiful.
Many sharks hover in the hooking area. .
Two big tuna were lined up and it was impressive.

The blue corner was easy to dive with a gentle flow.
All of my sights were amazing with a swarm of Big eye trevally.
Black Fin Barracuda is a tornado,
It was amazing.

German Channel
Fantail stingray is sleeping in the sand,
Black spot Barracuda Appears in large herds.
The last saw a pair of manta rays.

thank you for reading.
Then again.

March 17 2020

Hi, I’m Shohei.
It was great weather today so I got sunburned a lot!

Air temperature: 31C
Water temperature; 28C

BM7
Operator: Stacy
Guides: Yu

① Peleliu Express
② Yellow Wall
③ Peleliu Express

BM3
Operator: Susie
Guides: Tomi / Paula / Shohei

① Blue Hole
② Blue Corner
③ German Channel

My 1st dive was at Blue Hole.
The visibility was great. It was about 20m.
It was beautiful that the sunlight shined through the hole:)

We went to Blue Corner for the 2nd dive.
The current was weak outgoing.
There were a lot of grayreef sharks around the hooking area.
After hooking, a huge school of big eye trevally got closed to us!
And in the end of our dive,
we met a school of blackfin barracudas.
We said goodbye to them and finished our dive:)

The 3rd dive was at the German Channel.
A big manta was using the cleaning station.
It was beautiful:)

See you tomorrow!

March 16 2020

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

The weather keeps on being lovely.

Air temperature: 31C
Water temperature; 28C

We went out on one boat.

BM3
Operator: Stacy
Guides: Hiro / Paula / Shohei / Yuto

① Ulong Cliff
② Grassland
③ Siaes Corner

The halfmoon was playing current tricks
on us again today! Seriously, halfmoon,
what did we ever do to you? We arrived
at the channel to a solid incoming current
and looked forward to drifting inside the
channel BUT of course halfmoon did what
halfmoon does and as soon as we made it
to the entrance of the channel it turned
to strong outgoing and the visibility went
to… well, you can figure. BUT Ulong Cliff
was amazing! There was a beautiful school
of longfin batfish out in the blue water!
We also saw lots of baby grey reef sharks
and sooo many bigeye scads and whitetongue
jacks being chased around by a large gold-
spotted trevally and some more bluefin
trevallies as well as some grey reef sharks.
We also saw a baby black&white snapper as
well as a baby Chevron butterfly fish! Fun
times!

Grassland started us on a solid outgoing
current, then changed briefly to incoming
and then back to outgoing. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
The red-bellied fusiliers were schooling
especially beautifully today, not sure why
but it was nice to watch! Also a school of
whitetongue jacks first passed by us like
a river only to then create a fishball right
in front of us! We also found some baby
palette surgeonfish!

At Siaes Corner the current was outgoing –
YAY – and although it gradually got weaker
during the dive we still saw lots of grey
reef sharks and soooooo many bluefin trevallies!
Also Princess Anthias and a dogtooth tuna!
And a beautiful bright red anemone!

See you tomorrow!

March 15 2020

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

It was really hot today.

Air temperature: 31C
Water temperature: 28C

We went out on three boats.

BM3
Operator: Moon
Guides: Hiro / Paula / Taichi

① German Channel
② Blue Corner
③ New Drop Off

BM6
Operator: Susie
Guides: Tomi / Clayton

① German Channel
② Blue Holes
③ Blue Corner

BM7
Operator: Stacy
Guides: Yu / Shohei

① Yellow Wall
② Peleliu Cut – Corner
③ Yellow Wall

The current at German Channel was strong
incoming and we saw a large manta ray
passing by. It came up super close so
everyone was happy.

The current at Blue Corner on the other
hand was strong outgoing and we entered
from outgoing buoy number 1. There were
soooo many grey reef sharks at the hooking
area as well as bigeye trevallies, black
spot barracudas and the friendly Napoleon.

At New Drop Off we had a turtle party!
There were soooooo many large green sea
turtles swimming and hanging out with us.
We also saw lots of grey reef sharks,
blackspot barracudas and whitetongue jacks.

Our Peleliu team got treated to loooooooooots
of yellow-lined sea breams as well as a large
school of giant trevallies!

Good diving today! Let’s hope it stays this
great tomorrow!

March 14 2020

Alli from Palau

how you all doing? hope all is good.

this is Clayton doing dive blog for 03/14/20

1st dive at Grass Land with 18m visibility.

weak outgoing current cause its 2days to

half moon. not so much going on at this

dive, but all the stars were present. but the

only good was African Pampano or better

know as the thread fin trevally. again this

fish is cold water fish and they show up

here on the island when Palau water

temprature change by one degree. but

sometimes you get that cold up dwelling

water.

2nd dive at Siaes Corner with 20m visibility.

check the current just to make sure and enter

from the outgoing side. but just 3mins to our

dive the current change. it was not that bad,

we wre able to reach the the corner with no

sweat. there were alot of reef fish, but they were

all scattered do to the changing current. so the

current change on us 3 times. the good news is

we got to see some buffalo fish on this dive,

meaning their spawning time is near, its orgy

time. its what Paula always say”time”

3rd dive at Ulong Cliff with 13m visibility.

again weak current at the entry point making

this dive a relaxing one. as i approach the cliff

i saw the school of those baby gray reef sharks.

nice, very nice. its something that wakes up my

team, cause our 2 dive was not that exciting.

so i was trying to count the sharks, and at my #20

2 of my divers swam pass me and kinda push the

sharks away so i didnt get my count complete.

but i estimate around 50 plus baby gray reef

sharks. its baby gray reef shark week in Palau.

went looking for the school of big eye trevally.

came to the spot where they usually hangout

but there was none. so i decided to check the

old spot and they were there, but at very

shallow water, its like 5m. lucky me.

well folks, thank you for your time and see

you next time. Tonton signing out.

Happy diving.

March 13 2020

Alii from Palau

how you all doing? hope all is fine!

This is Clayton doing dive blog for 03/13/20

1st dive at Ngemelis wall with18m visibility.

started our dive with a weak outgoing current,

we got to see our first Turtle after 19mins. but

surprisely we just saw 4 turtles on this dive, but

hey its better than nothing. one interesting fish

we saw was a small scorpion fish. not so much

going on this dive, but slowly the school of

black tail snappers will start to gather at this

point.

2nd dive at New Drop Off with 20m visibility.

start our dive with weak outgoing current, but

after 17mins the current start to pick up and

increasing its strength. but the good news is,

it makes all the fish come together at the hooking

point, nice! so i was safe by this current, if not

it would be a boring dive for my team cause

they all want big fish and school of fish, yahoo.!

3rd dive at Blue Corner with 20m visibility.

start our dive with a nice outgoing current,

but as we approach the hooking point, i realize

its much stronger. as i was going on to the top

of the reef, i saw the school of the black fin

barracuda out of place, they like hang out in

the blue in front of the hooking point, telling

me that the current is strong. did not stay

for long, cause the sharks were also pulling

away from the reef edge. so at this point

i decided to unhook, but just as i signal my

team to move, the school of barracuda came

up on the reef and position themself behind

us were there not much current and its the

exactly the area where i planning to go, nice

very nice! so again the current did all the work

for me, yahoo.!

thank you for your time and see you next time.

Tonton signing out. Happy diving…

March 11 2020

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

The weather was super nice today.
It’s a good weather streak.

Air temperature: 32C
Water temperature: 28C

We went out on two boats.

BM6
Operator: Stacy
Guides: Tomi / Paula / Taichi / Yuto

① Siaes Corner
② Grassland
③ Ulong Cliff

BM7
Operator: Susie
Guides: Yu / Shohei

① Blue Holes
② Blue Corner
③ German Channel

Ulong was super blue today because of
the lovely weather! We caught some nice
outgoing current at Siaes Corner and
after looking at lots of different cute
little anthias and a hawksbill turtle
we got treated to a shark show at the
hooking area. Also a huge tuna.

At Grassland the visibility was nice and
there were sooooo many fusiliers being
chased over the reef by some bluefin
trevallies! We also saw a big school of
whitetongue jacks over the deep sandy
area as well as lots of garden eels of course!

The current at Ulong Cliff had stopped when
we entered but changed to incoming just by
the time we made it to the entrance of the channel!
Lucky us! The school of big eye trevallies was
hanging out at the mouth of the channel on the
shallow area and suddenly chased past us at
incredible speed. There were a looooooooot of
them! We also saw a big school of baby sharks
at the cliff in the blue as well as a spotted
eagle ray baby at the mouth of the channel!
Good dive!

I can’t wait for tomorrow, see you then!

March 10 2020

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

It was sunny and hot today!

Air temperature: 32C
Water temperature: 27C

We went out on three boats.

BM3
Operator: Susie
Guides: Tomi / Rusher / Shohei

① Blue Holes
② New Holes
③ Chuyo Maru

BM6
Operator: Clayton
Guides: Hiro / Paula / Yuto

① German Channel
② Blue Holes
③ Blue Corner

BM7
Operator: Stacy
Guide: Yu

① German Channel
② New Drop Off
③ Blue Corner

I don’t know about you guys but today
was amazing! German Channel offered us
a “Manta Matsuri” – Manta Festival!
We saw at least five of them cleaning at
the same time but I believe there must
have been more! Mantas wherever you looked!

At Blue Holes we got super nice visibility
paired with macro fun! Electric flame scallop,
whip coral gobies, lots of anthias – the usual
VIPs but today the weather was great and the
sun shone beautifully through the holes in the
reef!

Blue Corner was amazing because we caught great
incoming current and basically had the whole
divesite to ourselves! We got caught up in a
storm of bigeye trevallies and then in a circle
of blackspot barracudas before watching a sea of
sharks and, to top it off, a large school of
blackfin barracudas! (I ran out of metaphors for
the barracudas…) Great dive!!!

Here are some pictures Tomi took today in Ngemelis:

Have a nice evening and see you tomorrow!

March 9 2020

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

The weather was amazing today!

Air temperature: 32C
Water temperature: 27C (25C at New Drop!)

We went out on two boats.

BM3
Operator: Stacy
Guides: Tomi / Rusher / Shohei / Yuto

① German Channel
② Blue Corner
③ Hafa Adai

BM6
Operator: Susie
Guides: Hiro / Paula / Taichi

① New Drop Off
② Blue Corner
③ German Channel

I honestly think today’s dive at New Drop Off
was the best dive I ever did there. No kidding.
The current was strong outgoing and we drifted
along the wall before hiding behind the first
little corner. We then spotted TWO HELFRICH’S
DARTFISH OMG SO CUTE I CANNOT!!!
Then we hooked and got treated to quite a spectacle!
Soooooooooo many sharks! Also A HUGE SPOTTED
EAGLE RAY! And a tuna! And so many blackspot
barracudas! Amaaaaaaaazing dive!

Blue Corner also didn’t disappoint! The current
was also strong outgoing and although it took us
a little time to find a good hooking spot (so. many.
divers) we saw lots of tunas and sharks and blackfin
barracudas! It was a barracuda kind of day because
at the same time there were three kinds of barracudas:
Blackspot barracudas, blackfin barracudas and also
sawtooth barracudas all huddled together! On top of
that, also bigeye trevallies, whitetongue jacks and
the friendly Napoleon as well as three green sea turtles
seemingly dancing around each other. So cute!

At German Channel it was another manta festival! We
first saw three mantas cleaning and then headed out to
the blue water where we saw SEVEN mantas feeding! Yayyy!!

Today was awesome I’m so excited!
See you tomorrow!

March 8 2020

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

It was rather cold today.

Air temperature: 28C
Water temperature: 28C

We went out on two boats.

BM3

Operator: Stacy
Guides: Clayton / Hiro / Shohei / Yuto

① New Drop Off
② Blue Corner
③ German Channel

BM6
Operator: Moon
Guides: Yu / Paula / Taichi

① Grassland
② Siaes Corner
③ Ulong Channel

The visibility at Grassland was nice at
about 15 metres. We had fun with all things
big and small, including an adorable mantis
shrimp! Also baby palette surgeonfish as well
as many whitetongue jacks were present! The
fusiliers were streaming over the reef like
a sparkly blue river. Very poetic I know.

At Siaes Corner the current was just weird,
no other way to put it. We entered on the
incoming side only to realise it had changed
to weak outgoing, then stopped, then turned
to comfortable outgoing again, and when we
arrived at the corner we realised there was
current coming from both sides meeting at
the corner. We saw lots of grey reef sharks
and blackspot barracudas as well as flame
angelfish, hawksbill turtles and a moray
eel. When it sits on a reef and has sharp
sets of teeth, that’s a moray.

At Ulong Channel we caught super nice incoming
current! My team headed towards the cliff before
drifting inside the channel and there were
soo many baby grey reef sharks schooling! So cute!
At the mouth of the channel there were two huge
schools of red snappers!!! Awesome! Also lots
of grey reef sharks as well as whitetongue jacks,
blackspot barracudas and bigeye scads! We also
spotted a baby spotted eagle ray!

Clayton’s and Hiro’s teams got treated to about
60 moorish idols at both Blue Corner and New
Drop Off, and to top it off 11 mantas at German
Channel!!!! Not bad!

I wonder what we can see tomorrow? We’ll let you
know!

March 7 2020

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

Sunny today with just a few clouds
and a shower on the way back…

Air temperature: 30C
Water temperature: 28C

We went out on two boats.

BM6
Operator: Clayton
Guides: Tomi / Hiro / Shohei

① Ukaku Channel
② Galaxy
③ Ukaku Channel Outside

BM7
Operator: Susie
Guides: Paula / Taichi

① Ngemelis Wall
② Blue Corner
③ German Channel

It was another mantastic day in Palau.
Sorry if the pun is getting old, I personally
don’t think so. Anyways, there were lots of
mantas today!!! 🙂

Blue Corner treated us to a beautiful, relaxed
outgoing current and sooooooooooo many sharks
at the hooking area! Like at least 40! I couldn’t
even count properly. Also two genormous dogtooth
tunas passed right by us! We also got to see a
school of blackfin barracudas, lots of blackspot
barracudas, humphead snappers, blue-lined snappers,
turtles and Spanish mackerels as well as soooooo
many fusiliers! Yay!

At German Channel the visibility was nice at about
17 metres and we got to see FIVE MANTAS CLEANING AT
THE SAME TIME! Like a manta train! Dooooooooooooon!
Amazing! Needless to say, everybody was happy. To top
it off, schools of whitetongue jacks, bigeye scads and
baby sharks!

Our Ukaku team decided they had to top our manta
count and at the same time supposedly saw TWELVE
mantas at once. That’s what they said. Well.
Let’s choose to believe them.

Have a great evening everyone!

March 6 2020

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

The weather was amaaaaaazing today!

Air temperature: 31C
Water temperature: 27C

We went out on two boats.

BM6
Operator: Susie
Guides: Tomi / Yu / Taichi / Yuto

① Shark City
② Siaes Corner
③ Siaes Tail

BM7
Operator: Clayton
Guides: Hiro / Paula

① Grassland
② Ulong Channel
③ Siaes Corner

Pilot whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaales!!!
We got treated to a pod of beautiful
pilot whales during our surface interval
near Siaes Corner!

At Grassland we got a first taste of schooling
moorish idols, but only about 50! However,
there were lots of sawtooth barracudas and sharks
so it was still a great dive!

At Ulong Channel there were sooooooooo many
bigeye scads, whitetongue jacks and grey reef
sharks as well as A HUGE NURSE SHARK! It was just
sleeping crammed in under a rock looking very
uncomfortable to be honest but it still wasn’t
bothered at all by us taking pictures.
We also found a baby spotted eagle ray.

Siaes Corner treated us to a changing current –
oh noooo – BUT also approximately 200 moorish idols.
Oh yeeeeeeeeeeees! That was awesome. There were also
close to 100 bicolour parrotfish being chased over the
reef by sharks.

At Shark City the other teams saw lots and lots of
red snappers!

Also, check out what I found under our pier today.

Isn’t it the cutest? Why was I diving under the pier?
I guess you’ll never know, but I wholeheartedly recommend it if you’re into macro!

Have a nice evening!

March 5 2020

Alii from Palau

how you all doing? hope all is good!

this is Clayton doing dive blog for 03/05/20.

1st dive at German Channel with 12m visibility.

weak out going current and I had a slow team

for today. took my time, nice and easy that it

took us 15mins to reach the first cleaning station.

again the sandy area close to the station lay

a feather tail sting ray, but im not sure if its

the same one i saw yesterday. continue my

dive toward the the south cleaning station.

along the way, 5 small gray reef sharks were

making circle like they didnt know where to go

or who to follow. came to the south station and

stayed for 5mins waiting for a miracle to happen.

manta no show so I aim for the north station, but

on my way, I start to hear tank banging. so i assume

it manta call, as we came to the garden eel spot,

there were 2 manta circling on a coral head which

is not a cleaning station, but i understand, cause

the current was that weak. so if the manta does

not like the current, it will not stay at the cleaning

station, because they dont have swimming bladder.

2nd and 3rd dive at blue corner with 20m visibility.

so this time our main focus was the school

of Moorish idle. this is the time that this fish come

together to mate. so if you remember that in

the start of February every year they do their

thing for like 2 months. so for both dive it was

bad, only few of they showed up and we did not

witness the show time. but the good news is,

its not over, we still have one more day left.

but on this dive all the stars were present

including the school of barracuda that i didnt

see yesterday. now you see? save some for

the next time. once again thank you for

your time and see you next time, bye….

Tonton signing out, happy diving.

March 4 2020

Alii from Palau

how you all doing? I hope that

all are save from the virus! pls be

extra careful.

1st dive at Ngemelis Wall with 20m

visibility and fair current. since most

of our guest were first day and they wanted

to see turtles. it was apiece of cake, the

Ngemelis Wall was the perfect point. we were

able see at least 7 turtles, that was the high

light. the bonus was a huge giant trevally and

the extra point was a African Pampano or

a thread fin trevally.

2nd dive at German Channel with 17m

visibility. again another piece of cake dive.

all guest also wanted to see the manta ray.

but before we reach the cleaning station

a feather tail sting ray was laying on the

sandy bottom. as we arrived at the station

one manta was already there. once i got

my team in position, another manta showed

up and they start sharing the station. while

watching the two manta, the 3rd manta came.

as the manta move away another manta showed up

so that makes 4 manta. so i say, thats good enought

but the 5th manta came from behind us, flew over

us that i have to dock down just to give way for

this awesome ray. so we spent total 40mins dive

time just watching the manta ray, nice , very nice.

3rd dive at Blue Corner with 20m visibility.

start with a nice out going current but became

strong after 15mins. we hooked in but not too

long, cause 2 of my divers were using their air

fast. again Blue Corner never fail, most of the

stars were present except the school of barracuda

which i didnt look for because i was avoiding the

strong current and plus the down current at the

end of the reef. i will save the barracuda for next

time, you know? dont show all your cards at

one time, save some for the last.

thank you again and see you next time. until then

Tonton signing out, Happy diving where ever you are.

March 3 2020

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

Looooovely weather today! Everblue Ulong!

Air temperature: 32C
Water temperature: 27C

We went out on two boats.

BM3
Operator: Susie
Guides: Rusher / Paula / Shohei / Yuto

① Grassland
② Ulong Cliff
③ Siaes Corner

BM6
Operator: Stacy
Guides: Yu / Hiro

① Blue Corner
② German Channel
③ Blue Corner

Omg so much happened today!! There was
a HAMMERHEAD SHARK at Blue Corner! Not only
for the first dive, but also for the third!!

At German Channel there were six mantas
cleaning and no other teams in the water! Jackpot!

Rusher’s and my teams chose Grassland as a slow
point for our first dive and considering how we
haven’t been overly lucky with mantas in Grassland
recently, we didn’t really expect to see any.
BUT! Just after we entered we spotted not only one
but TWO mantas cleaning! They hung out until we had
to leave because of our NDLs decreasing! We then
got treated to a school of sawtooth barracudas at
only 22 metres depth! Yayyy!! To top it off, a hawksbill
turtle!

At Ulong Cliff there was a baby spotted eagle ray!
So cute! A ray day! There were also lots of sharks,
whitetongue jacks, bigeye scads and fusiliers being
chased around!

At Siaes Corner the current was a typical half moon
current – no idea where to enter because no current on
either side. We decided to go for the outgoing side and
thank god we did because the current picked up and we got
to enjoy a shark, dogtooth tuna and blackspot barracuda
festival at the hooking area! Yay!!

Here’s a manta picture that Yuto took yesterday during
fun diving. Thanks Yuto!!

Have a nice evening and see you tomorrow!

March 2 2020

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

It was super hot today.

Air temperature: 32C
Water temperature: 27C

We went out on two boats.

BM3
Operator: Susie

Guides: Rusher / Paula / Taichi

① German Channel
② New Drop Off
③ Blue Corner

BM6
Operator: Clayton
Guides: Tomi / Hiro / Shohei

① Almonogui Corner
② Plenty Fish
③ West Passage

Mantaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
The visibility at German was beautiful
at over 15 metres and we got treated to
a cleaning party of not one, not two but
THREE MANTAS! One of them was clearly pregnant!
I can’t wait for baby mantas! We had the main
cleaning station almost to ourselves and when
they were done cleaning they did a huge loop
around us in a manta train!

At New Drop Off the visibility was nice and we
caught good outgoing current. On top of lots of
blackspot barracudas, sharks, pyramid butterflyfish
and redtooth triggerfish we also spotted another
leaf fish! Is it leaf fish season or have I just
developed an eye for leaf fish? I am getting confused
by the abundance of leaf fish everywhere I go. Please
advise.

At Blue Corner the current was super nice strong incoming
and there were soooooooo many bigeye trevallies! Also
a large dogtooth tuna, many grey reef sharks, blackspot
barracudas, the friendly Napoleon and a school of
blackfin barracudas! Successful dive I’d say!

Up north there were lots of red snappers and fusiliers
as well as lots of bigeye trevallies!

Excited for tomorrow! See you then!

March 1 2020

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

The weather was suuuuper nice today!

Air temperature: 31C
Water temperature: 27C

We went out on three boats.

BM1
Operator: Moon
Guides: Hiro / Taichi

① Blue Holes
② Blue Corner
③ Iro

BM3
Operator: Susie
Guides: Yu / Paula / Yuto

① Ulong Channel
② Siaes Corner
③ Grassland

BM7
Operator: Clayton
Guides: Tomi / Shohei

① Peleliu Express
② Peleliu Cut
③ Peleliu Express

At Ulong Channel we found a cute little
baby spotted eagle ray! It just basically
stood in the current in front of us being
cute. There were also lots of whitetongue
jacks and bigeye scads as well as grey
reef sharks.
Also today was a nudi day. Dive 1 nudi:
Chelidonura amoena!

At Siaes Corner we caught very strong yet
super nice outgoing current and we had
the whooooole divesite to ourselves! Jackpot!
There were soooo many grey reef sharks at the
hooking area, I’d guess around 50! Sharks
sharks sharks everywhere you look! We also
came across a school of blackfin barracudas
and of course blackspot barracudas!
And another nudi: Chromodoris coi. Nudis are
bae. I love nudis. We all should love nudis.

At Grassland we had some macro fun. There was
a rockmover wrasse! We believe it must have been
around middle school age. Also a MANTIS SHRIMP!
So pretty! But of course we also found a school
of sawtooth barracudas and had fun with the
spotted and spaghetti garden eels.

In Peleliu Tomi’s team got treated to a large
school of giant trevallies and also a mantaaaa!

Today was awesoooome, so many nudis! See you tomorrow!

February 29 2020

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

The weather was soooo much better today!

Air temperature: 29C
Water temperature: 27C

We went out on three boats.

BM1
Operator: Clayton
Guides: Hiro / Taichi

① German Channel
② Blue Corner
③ New Drop Off

BM3
Operator: Susie
Guides: Yu / Paula / Yuto

① Ngemelis Wall
② Blue Holes
③ Blue Corner

BM7
Operator: Moon
Guides: Tomi / Shohei

① Big Drop Off
② Blue Corner
③ German Channel

Ngemelis was packed full of Blue Marlin
teams today! Yay! At Blue Holes the visibility
was super nice at almost 20 metres! I’m happy
to report the cute little leaf fish is still
around! There were also lots of lionfish and
two oran utan crabs!

At Blue Corner the current was steadily
outgoing and all the stars were there –
bigeye trevallies, blackspot barracudas, white
tongue jacks, dogtooth tunas, grey reef sharks,
the friendly Napoleon AND blackfin barracudas!
Perfect diving!

Tomi sneakily dove German Channel for the third
dive and was rewarded with a manta and no other
teams! To top it off, it was a PREGNANT MANTA!
Can we expect baby mantas soon? I hope so!

Let’s hope the weather keeps on improving!
See you tomorrow!

February 28 2020

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

Terrible weather today.

Air temperature: 26C (I cannot)
Water temperature: 27C (freezing but
felt warm compared to the surface)

We went out on two boats.

BM1 – Ngermeaus
Operator: Clayton
Refresh: Clayton
Intro: Hiro

BM3

Operator: Susie
Guides: Yu / Paula / Taichi / Yuto

① Ulong Cliff
② Grassland
③ Amatsu Maru

Ulong Cliff was full of small stuff
today! We found a baby black snapper
as well as the cutest little strawberry
dottyback. There were also lots of sharks!

At Grassland we got some bigger stuff!
Today the cleaning station was in full use
by four grey reef sharks who were all cleaning
at the same time. No wonder there was no
manta – no space! As we continued towards
the deeper sandy area we saw a large school of
sawtooth barracudas accompanied by a school of
whitetongue jacks. We also found three baby
palette surgeonfish! So cuuuute!!

Let’s hope the weather gets better tomorrow.

See you then!

February 27 2020

Hello.It’s Hiro.

Today is Palau in weather Completely cloudy…
Don’t forget a Boat coat.

Operator Clayton
Guide Tomi Hiro
①German channel
②Blue corner

Air temperature:28℃
Water temperature:28℃

In German channel we met 3 manta rays.
It was so close and everyone was happy!!
Also There were lots of Spoted gerden eel in the sand.
So cute!!!!!

Secound dive site was Blue corner.
It’s a very good out going current.
Using a leaf hook, it was a shark festival!!
Fish appeared like a parade!!
Grey reef sharks,Black fin barracuda,Dog Tooth tuna,
Spanish Ｍackerel.Napolon fish..
It was a good diving.

Thank you for reading.Bye.

February 26 2020

Alii from Palau

How we all doing? hope all is fine.

this is Clayton doing dive blog for 01/17/2020

1st dive at ulong cliff all the way to Ulong

channel. nice slow incoming current with

20m visibility. on this dive was a feeding

action by blue fin trevally and yellow fin

trevally chasing the school of big eye

scad around the reef. what amazing about

this dive is the school of big eye scad came

between the divers, the haunters came so

close that freak me out, cause they could

ram you if they miss their target. on this

dive i was looking for the school of big

eye trevally, but i couldnt find them

out side the reef where they usually

hang out. so we continue our dive into

the channel and during our safety stop

i spot them on right side of the channel, nice.

2nd dive at Grass land with 20m visibility.

little bit incoming current making us going

against the current, but not that bad. so

just in the beginning of our dive there was

the school of one spot barracuda, then in the

middle of the sandy area was the school of

Chevron barracuda mixed with the school

of white tounge jacks. as i continue the dive,

on a particular table coral i notice a baby

blue tang surgeon fish which been a long time

since i see one many moons ago. at grass land

theres a rare butter fly fish that i only see on

this site called Merten’s butter fly. pls check

the fish book its very unique fish.

3rd dive at Siaes corner with 25m visibility.

good outgoing current with the wall on the

right. when i say good, you are able to use the

reef hook on this dive. while your hooked in

the current make the fish come in front of the

hooking point so you can watch fish activity

effortlessly. spend 15mins on the hooking,

then i decided to unhook and just finish

our dive with a drift. after 3mins, the current

change so quickly, oh man! not now!

its half moon, there’s nothing you can do

about it, just go with the flow. cant beat the

mother nature. on this dive we got to see

the first buffalo fish, and you know during

the cycle of the new moon this fish are starting

to show on the dive site. meaning that the

party is starting soon, so be ready for one

of world big orgy.

thank you for your time, all the time.

Tonton signing out. happy diving.

February 25 2020

Hello. It is Hiro.

Today is Palau in sunny weather.
I feel the wind is a little weaker.

Operator Clayton
Guide Rasher Taichi
① Big drop off
②Blue corner

Operator Sucie
Guide Yu
①Grassland
②Siaes corner
③Uolong Cliff

Operator @ Stacy
Guide Tominaga Hiro Youto
① Virgin blue hole
② New drop off
③ Blue corner

Temperature 31 ° C
Water temperature 28 ° C

Virgin Blue Hole is a fantastic point.
The light coming from the hole was beautiful.
It is a place that terrain lovers want to visit.

New drop-offs include Moyers Dragonet, octopus, Leaf fish, etc.
I enjoyed the small fish carefully.
The swarm of Bule lined snapper was also beautiful.

The blue corner was a great fish shadow.
There are fish beyond the aquarium.
For giant trevally, Gray leef shark, and Big eye trevally
You can meet Napoleon.
The Black-tip fusilier were also enormous and beautiful!

See you!

February 24 2020

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

It was super sunny today but the
wind was still blowing!

Air temperature: 30C
Water temperature: 27C

We went out on three boats!

BM3
Operator: Jimmy
Guides: Yu and Shohei

① Ngemelis Coral Garden
② Blue Corner
③ German Channel

BM6
Operator: Stacy
Guides: Tomi / Clayton

① Grassland
② Siaes Tunnel
③ Siaes Corner
④ Chandelier Cave

BM7
Operator: Moon
Guides: Paula and Yuto

① Blue Corner
② New Drop Off
③ Ngemelis Coral Garden

HAMMERHEEEEEEEEEEEEAD! It’s happened again!
Tomi’s team spotted a hammerhead at Siaes Corner!
Definitely the highlight of the day!

There were also mantas both at Grassland and
German Channel! The visibility was still okay
at both points! The manta at Grassland did a few
loops around the cleaning station in front of our
divers before disappearing into the blue…
The manta at German Channel also took its time…
could it be that manta season is coming to an end?
I hope not!

There were also loooooooots of sharks today at
New Drop Off and Blue Corner, as well as lots of
blue-lined snappers! New Drop Off also delivered
a beautiful show of blackspot barracudas. It was
also day of the turtle today. Sooo many hawksbill
turtles and green sea turtles everywhere!

I wonder what we can see tomorrow?

February 23 2020

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

It’s still very windy but at least
it was sunny today.

Air temperature: 29C
Water temperature: 27C

We went out on two boats.

BM3
Operator: Susie
Guides: Clayton / Hiro / Shohei / Yuto

① Ngemelis Coral Garden
② Blue Corner
③ German Channel
④ Chuyo Maru

BM6
Operator: Moon
Guides: Tomi / Paula

① Bento
② Blue Corner
③ German Channel

The wind and swell are still strong, limiting
our choices of dive points. Oh noooooo! We still
had fun, though. At Bento we had a Randall’s
shrimp goby party. Randall’s wherever you looked.
Also a genormous green sea turtle and many yellowfin
goatfish.

Blue Corner delivered as it always does – a super nice
outgoing current treated us to grey reef sharks, black
spot barracudas, blackfin barracudas, bigeye trevallies,
a hawksbill turtle, a green sea turtles and an octopus!
Also a huuuuuuge dogtooth tuna and Spanish mackerel as
well as many giant trevallies.

At German Channel we found a manta but in my personal
opinion the highlight was the huge school of bigeye
trevallies creating a tornado above us! Also a large
school of whitetongue jacks as well as many baby grey
reef sharks!

Have a nice evening!

February 22 2020

Alii from Palau

this Clayton doing dive bog for 02/22/20

how you all doing? hope all is good!

1st dive at Ngemelis wall for check dive.

weak incoming current with poor visibility.

we got surge all the way down to 20m and

we got the trigger fish nesting so i avoid

their space. so it took over 20mins to see

my first turtle and usually it does not took

that long. 3 big buffalo fish came swim down

with the current passing by us. we saw the school

of red fin snappers, but there were only few of

them still staying behind, maybe less than 100.

but let me say, the high light for this dive was

a young manta ray that appeared behind our

group as i turned around to check on my team.

It came toward us, unfold its nose and pause

for a moment and recoil its nose and gently

swam pass by us, nice, very nice.

2nd dive at New Drop Off with 18m visibility.

a weak outgoing current, perfect for our first day

divers and first time in Palau, so they can enjoy

such experience here in the island. all the stars

were present and the napoleon wrasse was doing

his thing with 5 diffrent female wrasse. well too bad

my team did not know and understand such behavior.

well you just have to dive more and read more about

fish life then you can understand when such behavior

happened under water.

3rd dive at Blue Corner with 15m visibility.

made a wrong entry point on the reef, cause

the current was kind a hard to predict. I mean

it was not me who check the current. but anyway

no worries Tonton knew what to do. I showed all

the stars of blue corner with out a sweat. plus a bonus,

3 big bad ass dog tooth tuna, nice. I rest my case.

thank you for enjoying reading my dive blog and I

welcome you again next time.

Tonton signing out , Happy Diving where ever

you are.

February 21 2020

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

The weather was grim today.

Air temperature: 26C
Water temperature: 27C

We went out on two boats.

BM3
Operator: Susie
Guides: Tomi / Paula / Yuto

① Big Drop Off
② Blue Corner
③ German Channel

BM7
Operator: Stacy
Guides: Yu / Taichi

① Blue Corner
② Blue Corner
③ German Channel

The wind has been rough on us and the
water conditions are challenging. There’s
a lot of swell and the visibility isn’t
at its best BUT we had a great day diving
anyways! At Big Drop Off it was a macro
party! Seriously! We even found a leaf
fish! So cuute! Like a leaf with eyes.
Also two baby dapple coris. Yay for baby fish.

At Blue Corner we split the team into macro
team and drift team, so the macro team explored
the macro hole at 32 metres and the drift team
entered from the outgoing side to hop onto
a veeeeery slow outgoing current. There were
lots of bigeye trevallies and giant trevallies,
blackspot barracudas and blackfin barracudas!

At German Channel the visibility was very poor
but Tomi’s team managed to catch a manta cleaning.
The other two teams weren’t as lucky…

Here are some pictures that Mr. Kouzai and
Mr. Komoike took today! Thank you!!

Have a great evening and see you tomorrow!

February 20 2020

Alii!!! It’s Yu!!

Today was fine all day!

But north wind was strong and large swells

are cominng in from the west side.

Due to the effect,the visibility was poor everywhere…

Air temperature: 30C
Water temperature: 27C

BM3

Operator: Moon
Guide: Tomi,Yu

① Aquarium
② Siaes Corner
③ Ulong Cliff

BM7
Operator: Stacy
Guides: Rush

① Grass Land
② Siaes Corner
③ Ulong Cliff

1st point is our original point.

We used a reef hook because there is strong current!

We saw so many sharks and baby sharks.

I also saw school of twospotsnapper & yellowfingoatfish.

2nd point is Siaes corner.

We find 500 orangespine unicornfishes!!

You can only see this fish at this time!

It’s only before newmoon of January,February,March.

We are super lucky!!

3rd was Ulong Cliff.

We want to dive Ulong Channel but current was changed

to out going.So we gave up to dive Channel.

We saw school of blackspot barracudas, whitetongue jacks,

and baby spotted eagle ray too!! It was nice dive!

See you tomorrow!

February 19 2020

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

The weather was mixed today.

Air temperature: 30C
Water temperature: 27C

We went out on three boats today.

BM1
Operator: Moon
Guide: Paula

① Siaes Corner
② Ulong Channel
③ Grassland

BM3
Operator: Stacy
Guide: Clayton
Intro: Hiro

① German Channel
② Blue Corner
③ Chuyo Maru

BM6
Operator: Susie
Guides: Tomi / Yu

① German Channel
② Blue Corner
③ New Drop Off

At Siaes Corner we had the whooooole spot
to ourselves at a super nice incoming current.
Sharks galore! Everywhere! Not just at the
hooking areas but seriously all along the edge
of the reef. Yay!

At Ulong Channel the current was mildly
incoming and we drifted super comfortably
over the sandy channel. There were so many
groupers today, and also yellowmargin triggerfish.
Abunai!

At German Channel our other teams all saw a manta
despite the very weak outgoing current. Yay! The
visibility was muuuuuch better at Blue Corner and
New Drop Off where it was at over 25 metres! Beautiful!
The current at Blue Corner was almost non-existent
and so all the fish gathered at the corner in one
giant spectacular array! At New Drop Off the current
was more solidly outgoing and made for a fun drift
dive!

I wonder what we can see tomorrow?

February 18 2020

Alii from Palau

how you all doing? hope all is good!

this is Clayton doing dive blog for 02/18/20

1st dive at Siaes tail with 25m visibility.

outgoing current that it took us 10mins

to reach the hooking point. while hooked

in a school of orange spine surgeon fish

came in huge number, maybe around 1000.

as we unhooked and drift along the reef

we came upon the school of one spot

barracuda. as some divers were taking

picture a mangrove sting ray swam toward

us. wanted to go further to look for the

school of big eye trevally but i have to end

the dive because we were low on air.

2nd dive at shark city with 25m visibility.

weak in coming current and i like this of the

reef. it has a nice reef formation and there

are big sea fun corals along the wall. lots of

schooling fish like the fusiliers,red tooth

trigger fish and butterfly fish. but there was this

rare snapper called blubberlip and it was quite

big. i have only see this on 3 dive point.

a huge giant trevally showed up and made

the small fishes swam toward us, nice.

tried to look for the school barracuda out

in the blue water, but no luck.

3rd dive at grass land with 10m visibility.

a weak out going current that make all

the schooling fish scattered over reef.

but the cool part of this dive was crocodile

fish, you dont get see this weird fish all the

time. just as we were about to end our dive

2 bad ass dog tooth tuna showed up to say

good bye, nice.

thank you again. Tonton signing out

Happy Diving where ever you are.

February 17 2020

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

What a beautiful day today was!

Air temperature: Hot (31C)
Water temperature: Well… (27C)

We went out on three boats today.

BM1
Operator: Moon
Guides: Paula and Shohei

① German Channel
② Blue Corner
③ New Drop Off
④ Chandelier Cave

BM3
Operator: Stacy
Guides: Clayton and Rusher

① Blue Corner
② Blue Corner
③ Blue Corner

BM6
Operator: Susie
Guides: Tomi and Yu

① Blue Holes
② German Channel
③ Blue Corner

At German Channel we got treated to a
surprise feeding spectacle in the morning!
The current was nice and incoming and the
visibility already great. When we arrived
at the cleaning station we were wondering
where the mantas were hanging out at, but
a quick look to the surface revealed two
of them FEEDING! Yayyyyy! Awesome!!

At Blue Corner the current was strong outgoing
when we first entered but slowed down just
in time for us to reach the hooking area and
watch a nice shark show! We also saw black
spot barracudas and blackfin barracudas as
well as bigeye trevallies, whitetongue jacks
and the friendly Napoleon. All the stars
were there.

At New Drop Off there were also lots of
sharks but what captured our attention the most
were two octopus engaged in a very heated
territorial dispute. They didn’t mind us whatsoever
and just kept going at each other. That was fun
to watch!

Have a nice evening!

February 16 2020

Alii from Palau

how you all doing? hope all is good!

this is Clayton doing dive blog for 02/16/20

1st dive at Ulong channel with 15m visibility.

slow incoming current, cause today is half moon.

again we saw that young baby eagle ray, kinda

friendly that allow divers to get close for a

picture, usually they stay away from divers.

approach the entrance of the channel to

find 11 gray reef shark circling. was looking

for the baby sharks but saw only few. this time

i missed the school of big eye trevally, i wonder

where do they go with such weak current.

2nd dive at Siaes Tunnel with 20m visibility.

not so much on this dive but we got the see

some rare fish in the tunnel, like the herliqiun

grouper, Collins angel fish,decorated dart fish.

yeah, just those 3 fish cause my light went

out toward the end of the tunnel. shit.

3rd dive at Siaes corner with 20m visibility.

nice incoming current, but after 17mins the

current some how change suddenly, but we

were able to reach the corner. again the

school of gray reef sharks were present

and a huge dog tooth tuna appeared from

the blue, maybe about 110lbs, it was big

that it scared the school of black snapper

out in the blue water up the reef. so with

the sudden change of current i give up

looking for the barracuda out in the blue.

so i just stick to the reef and let my team

do their thing.

thank you for your time and see you

next time. Tonton signing out.

Happy Diving everyone.

February 15 2020

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

The weather was nice today! Yay!

Air temperature: 30C
Water temperature: 28C

We went out on three boats.

BM1
Operator: Moon
Guide: Tomi

① Blue Corner
② New Drop Off
③ German Channel

BM3
Operator: Stacy
Guides: Clayton and Rusher

① German Channel
② Blue Holes
③ Blue Corner

BM6
Operator: Susie
Guides: Hiro / Paula / Shohei / Shiori

① German Channel
② Blue Corner
③ Blue Corner

Today was awesooooooooooooooome.
At first we had a great dive at German
Channel at about 15 metres visibility. Yay!
The main cleaning station was super crowded
and people were too close. Not yay. We decided
to move towards the garden eels and apparently
the mantas decided to do so, too, because they
seemed to just be following us around. Every
time we tried to show a school of fish, they
re-appeared seemingly randomly from all directions.
One of them was Freckles, about the other one
I’m not sure. Sorry, Manta Number 2.

Blue Corner was fantaaaastic. We got a super strong
outgoing current and drifted along the reef – WOOOSH.
When we hooked there were sooo many grey reef sharks
and to make our dive, the school of blackfin
barracudas suddenly appeared from behind! So cool!
Also the friendly Napoleon came up super close.
I’m using a lot of exclamation marks today so you
can probably tell I’m excited and it was a great dive.
Clayton claims he saw a hammerhead. I cannot confirm
that because I didn’t see it but let’s give him the

benefit of the doubt.

Have a great evening and talk to you tomorrow!

Also, you should probably follow us on Facebook and Instagram.

February 14 2020

alii from Palau

how you all doing? hope all is good!

1st dive at Ulong cliff with 15m visibility.

weak incoming current, perfect for beginner

diver. the high light for this dive was young

baby spotted eagle ray that was hanging

around the cliff. this is rare for such young

eagle ray to be around at this point. it

suppose to be inside the channel to mature

enought to venture outside the reef. another

high light is the school of baby gray reef sharks

that going in circle at the entrance of the

channel.

2nd dive at Grass land with 15m visibility.

again weak outgoing current, cause its 2 days

to half moon, perfect for my divers. all the stars

were there, including a manta ray that put a smile

on everybody and made their day, nice! but the

high light for this dive was the African Pamapno

that appeared at grass land, and you probably

know that this fish belongs in cold water, so

that means that Palau’s water is cold than

usual.

3rd dive at Siaes Corner with 15m visibility.

weak outgoing gurrent that made a nice and

easy drift dive along the wall. That gives a

good photo opportunity and photographer

time to enhance their skills. the high light

for this dive was the schools of gray reef

sharks from big size to small ones that swim

back and ford along the drop off showing

their sexy appeal.Lol..

once again thank you for your time and see

you next time.

Tonton signing out. Happy diving everyone.

February 13 2020

Alii from Palau

This is Clayton doing dive for 02/13/20.

how you all doing? hope all is good.

pretty strong wind today and cloudy and

rainy. but a bad day for diving is better

than a good day in the office.

1st dive at German channel with a poor

visibility from 5 to 8m. a outgoing current

at the channel bringing a murky water

down to the channel. as we swam toward

the cleaning station we kinda focus on small

fish just to buy time until we reach the station.

one young manta at the south side station. but

when we return back to check on the north side

cleaning station 2 manta were sharing the

station. with this kind of visibility nothing

beats the power of the manta ray, thank you

MR. Manta.

2nd dive at Blue Corner with 20m visibility.

start our dive with a nice outgoing current, that

it took us 8mins to reach the hooking point. stayed

for 18mins watching fish activity, so at one time I

counted 21 gray reef sharks going up and down

the current. so I was like, man, alot of sharks.

but when we unhooked and drift with the current,

more sharks were down the reef, nice! the high

light for this dive was not just the sharks, a

school of orange spine surgeon fish(about 200 of them).

appeared along with more sharks, wow! too much going

on at blue corner, and finally we end our dive with the

school of black fin barracuda, off to the blue water.

3rd dive at New drop off with 20m visibility.

again another nice outgoing current, that it took

us 13mins to reach the hooking point. stayed for

17mins watching fish activity. we got the giant

trevally chasing the school of fusilier back and ford.

while still on the hook, a big Spanish mackerel chase

the school of one spot barracuda up the reef right

in front of us. as we unhooked and drift along the

reef a school of Bonito came dashing behind us,

went a head for few minutes and came back again.

that fish is fast, that some of the divers didnt have

the chance to take a photo. and finally we came

up on the blue lined snappers for the last shot

before ending our dive.

so now you know, what i mean when i say, a bad

day for diving is better than a good day at the office.

thank you for your time and see you next time.

Tonton signing out. Happy Diving…..

February 12 2020

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

Terrible weather today.

Air temperature: 26
Water temperature: 27

I know for sure the water temperature
was higher than the air temperature because
everytime I got spraid with sea water on
the way back, it actually felt nice and warm.

We went out on three boats. Fun times!

BM2 – Charter
Operator: Susie
Guide: Yu

① German Channel
② Blue Corner

BM6
Operator: Clayton
Guides: Tomi / Paula / Shohei / Yuto

① Ulong Cliff
② Grassland
③ Siaes Corner

BM7
Operator: Stacy
Guides: Hiro / Shiori

① Ngemelis Wall
② Blue Corner
③ New Drop Off

Our boats ventured out in all different
directions today! The rain got us all though…
At German Channel Yu’s team watched three mantas
cleaning before the visibility decided to drop.

At Grassland the current was nicely outgoing and
apparently just right for a manta but with a very
late start. After doing a big loop over the sandy
area we returned to the cleaning station for another
manta check – no manta, or so we thought. Instead there
was a large school of blackspot barracudas near the
station and everyone got excited. While we were busy
observing our blackspotted friends, suddenly A MANTA
APPEARED over the shallow coral! It swam right at us
and I’m quite sure it wanted to swallow me whole, but
then last minute it turned and went to the cleaning
station for a nice thorough deep-clean. We enjoyed the
show for 10 minutes but then a sneaky shark came and
claimed its spot on the cleaning station, causing the
manta to be upset and leave. Perfect timing though!

At Siaes Corner we also caught nice outgoing current
and were treated to a spectacle of fusiliers being
chased by two large dogtooth tunas, at least four
gold-spotted trevallies and many many bluefin trevallies.
There were also soooo many sharks doing their rounds in
front of us! Great dive!

That’s it for today, see you tomorrow!

February 11 2020

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

It’s still windy but it was very
sunny today!

Air temperature: 30C
Water temperature: 27C

We went out on three boats today!

BM1
Operator: Stacy
Guides: Paula / Shohei

① German Channel
② Big Drop Off
③ Bento

BM2 – Charter
Operator: Susie
Guide: Yu

① Ngemelis Wall
② New Drop Off

BM6
Operator: Moon
Guides: Rusher / Hiro / Shiori

① German Channel
② Ngerchong Inside
③ Big Drop Off

Mantaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. Again. The visibility
was absolutely dreadful at German Channel.
I cannot even think of a way to make it
sound good. It was murky like the milky way
BUT we snuggled into the little pocket at
the main cleaning station and got treated
to a manta festival. They came up super
close and swam over our heads as though they
wanted to make sure we saw them despite the
bad visibility. Yayyyyy!! There were at least
five of them and a baby one!!!

At Big Drop Off the visibility was nice and
we had fun with many fish big and small, as
well as a giant moray eel.

At Bento we got a rare treat. Guess! Okay fine
I’ll tell you. We found a huuuuuuuuuuge nurse
shark! It was sleeping under a rock and at
first nobody noticed but when we finished
watching some gobies (a Randall’s and a graceful
shrimp goby) we suddenly realised it was right
in front of us! It just kept sleeping and sleeping
and we kept watching and watching. That was awesome.

I hope tomorrow will be as great as today! Just with
less wind and waves and swell and all.

Have a nice evening!

February 10 2020

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

Wow the weather was grim today.

Air temperature: 28C

Water temperature: 27C (cooooold)

We went out on one boat today. Chill times.

BM6
Operator: Susie
Guides: Rusher / Paula / Shohei / Yuto
Intro / Refresh: Hiro

① German Channel
② New Drop Off
③ Blue Corner

Mantaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! The visibility may have
been less than optimal at 8 metres but who
cares when you have a huge manta cleaning right
in front of you? It was a great show and we had
awesome seats! When the outgoing current was
getting stronger and the manta getting harder
and harder to recognise, we headed back towards
German Drop – or Fish Kindergarten – where we had
fun with little baby pennant bannerfish, blue-lined
snappers and yellowback fusiliers.

At New Drop Off we caught nice outgoing current and
drifted from the outside buoy all the way to the
hooking area where there were lots of sharks. Also
a small school of whitetongue jacks and lots of
blackspot barracudas were swimming in front of us.
Last but not least we found two large green sea
turtles. Good dive!

At Blue Corner there was nooooobody. A rare treat.
The current was weak incoming and there were sooo
many bigeye trevallies! Also a dogtooth tuna and
lots of bluefin trevallies and gold-spotted trevallies
were hunting the fusiliers around and it made for
a spectacular show. Since there were no other divers,
the friendly Napoleon also came super close. Yay!

Let’s hope for better weather and equally good
diving tomorrow!!

February 09 2020

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

Beautiful weather today but
it was a little windy again.

Air temperature: 30C
Water temperature: 27C

We went out on two boats today.

BM6
Operator: Stacy
Guides: Clayton / Paula / Shiori / Taichi

① Grassland
② Aquarium
③ Ulong Cliff – Channel

BM7
Operator: Moon
Guides: Yu / Shohei

① Grassland
② Siaes Corner
③ Ulong Channel

Today was the day of the ray! (That rhyme
was unintended but I’ll take credit for it
anyways.)

First we got two mantas at Grassland! Not
at the same time but still, two mantas are
better than one manta! There were also soo
many blackspot barracudas and sawtooth
barracudas!

At Aquarium we met the first spotted eagle
ray of the day – it was pretty big! We also
saw many yellowfin goatfish and twinspot
snappers.

At Siaes Corner there were looooots of grey
reef sharks! Nice dive!

Last but not least we waited for just the
right incoming current and then drifted into
the channel. At the mouth of the channel we
met a baby spotted eagle ray (so cute) and
there were also lots of bigeye trevallies
and bigeye scads as well as of course sharks!

Today was fun! I can’t wait for tomorrow!

February 08 2020

alii from Palau

this is Clayton doing dive blog for 02/08/20

been awhile since my last post. how you all

doing? hope all is good.

1st dive at Blue corner with 25m visibility.

nice, strong incoming current. all the stars

were present. hooked in on the 14m, stayed

for 12mins watching the school of big eye

trevally with the barracuda off to the blue.

move to the 18m spot stayed for a while

watching the napoleon wrasse posing for

the camera while a spanish mackerel

cruising on the back ground. drift along

the reef to find the school of moorish

idle on the tip of reef with tons of gray

reef sharks waiting for the opportunity

to attack the fish. drift out in to the blue

to find 2 huge dog tooth tuna, over 70lbs

in size. what a dive!

2nd dive at new drop off with 25m

visibility. start our dive with a slow incoming

current. after 13mins the current change to

outgoing. no worries, im only 30ft from

hooking point. establish our position on the

reef and watch fish activity. while hooked in,

i saw a octopus about 4ft away from me, not

only one, there were 2 octopus, nice. as we

unhook and drift with the current back to find

couple of turtles and the school of blue lined

snappers and then we end our dive with total

time of 50mins. its another fantastic dive and

good thing about this dive,was there were no other

divers in the water for 37mins until we get to see

them.

3rd dive at german channel with 12m visibility.

you may think that, its bad, but no. it was not

that bad. we had a nice incoming current that

push most of the schooling fish to the mouth

of the channel along the reef slope. as we drift

along, all the fish are lined up just waiting for

us to take their picture, again, nice. yeah, i know,

you probably asking, what about the manta ray.

i safe the best for the last. so the first manta came

and greet us and then shoot down and turned out

into the blue. next 2 manta came, one heading

straight to us that we have to give way. the other

one went over us, then suddenly another one came

behind us cutting in between the 2 manta making

a manta sandwitch. i know you never heard of

such thing, just the manta ray train. so again to

make the story short, we saw total of 5 manta

at one time, but i think they were more.

thank you again see you next time.

Tonton signing out. Happy diving.

February 07 2020

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

Awesome weather today!

Air temperature: 30C
Water temperature: 28C

We went out on three boats today.

BM1
Operator: Susie
Guide: Hiro

① Grassland
② Siaes Corner
③ Ulong Channel

BM3
Operator: Stacy
Guides: Rusher / Paula / Shohei / Taichi

① Grassland
② Siaes Corner
③ Ulong Channel

BM6
Operator: Clayton
Guides: Tomi / Hiro

① Shark City
② Peleliu Cut
③ Peleliu Express
④ German Channel

Today at Grassland there were sooo many
blackspot barracudas mingling with lots
of fusiliers that were being eaten by
bluefin trevallies and grey reef sharks!
Feeding party!

At Siaes Corner the current was weak incoming
but there were sooooo many fish at the hooking
area – grey reef sharks, dogtooth tunas,
gold spotted trevallies, bluefin trevallies…

At Ulong Channel we caught great incoming
current and drifted all the way over the
cabbage coral! We spotted lots of bigeye
trevallies and blackspot barracudas!

The Peleliu team got treated to an early red
snapper spawning party and then in Peleliu
saw many giant trevallies and a bull shark!

Have a nice evening!!

February 06 2020

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

The ocean was super calm today!
Finally! And we got some sun!

Air temperature: 30C
Water temperature: 28C

We went out on three boats today.

BM3
Operator: Clayton
Guides: Rusher / Paula / Shiori / Taichi

① Blue Corner
② New Drop Off
③ German Channel

BM6
Operator: Susie
Guides: Yu / Hiro

① New Drop Off
② Blue Corner
③ German Channel

BM7
Operator: Stacy
Guide: Tomi

① Ukaku Channel
② Galaxy
③ Ukaku Channel

At Blue Corner the current was incoming
at just the right speed and we got wrapped
up in soooo many big eye trevallies! There
were also lots of blackspot barracudas and
the Napoleon came up super close for many
photo OPs. Also I’m happy to report that the
decorated dartfish is still hanging out!

At New Drop Off Hiro’s team spotted a blackfin
shark! And one of our customers saw a hammerhead!!

At German Channel we got two cleaning mantas.
It seems all the mantas were in Ukaku today,
where Tomi’s team spotted about 15 of them!!

I wonder what we can see tomorrow?

February 05 2020

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

Today was muuuuch calmer than yesterday!
A little rain but also a little sunny!

Air temperature: 29C
Water temperature: 28C

We went out on three boats today.

BM3
Operator: Clayton
Guides: Rusher / Paula with Shiori

① Grassland
② Siaes Corner
③ Ulong Cliff

BM6
Operator: Susie
Guides: Yu / Hiro with Shohei

① Siaes Corner
② Ulong Cliff
③ Grassland

BM7
Operator: Stacy
Guide: Tomi

① Siaes Corner
② Shark City
③ Siaes Tail

It’s picture time:

Thank you to the awesome photographer!

Again today we saw many moorish idols but
also lots of sawtooth barracudas and blackspot
barracudas, as well as two friendly hawksbill
turtles.

The highlight of the day was when BM7 found
a school of pigmy killer whales near Siaes Tail!
They were playing and hanging out right below
the boat! What a treat!

Have a nice evening and see you tomorrow!

February 04 2020

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

The weather was not great today.
Windy with occasional rain showers.

Air temperature: 27C
Water temperature: 27C (so. cold.)

We went out on three boats today.

BM3
Operator: Clayton
Guides: Rusher / Paula with Shiori

① Big Drop Off
② German Channel
③ Blue Corner

BM6
Operator: Susie
Guides: Tomi / Hiro

① New Drop Off
② Blue Corner
③ Blue Corner

BM7
Operator: Stacy
Guide: Yu

① Ngerchong Outside
② Ngerchong Inside
③ W Reef

We got moorish idols agaaaaaaain! In the
most unexpected of places (at least for me) –
Big Drop Off! We decided to do Big Drop Off
for our first dive for some macro fun and
were thus super surprised when suddenly there
were about 400 (!!) moorish idols schooling
all around us!! Wohoooo!!

At Ngerchong Outside the visibility was super
nice and the conditions were calm and everybody
had fun observing lots of dogtooth tunas and
Spanish mackerels!

At Blue Corner the current was strong outgoing
and there were sooooooooo many sharks at the
hooking area! Later as we continued on top of
the reef we first got treated to a school of
blackfin barracudas, and then sooo many big eye
trevallies and blackspot barracudas!

Let’s keep our fingers crossed for the wind
to calm down tomorrow!

February 03 2020

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

Man it was rough today!
Very sunny though!

We went out on three boats.

BM3
Operator: Clayton
Guides: Rusher with Shohei / Paula with Shiori

① German Channel
② Blue Holes
③ Blue Corner / Ngemelis Wall

BM6
Operator: Susie
Guides: Yu / Hiro

① Blue Corner
② Blue Corner
③ Blue Corner

BM7 – Charter
Operator: Stacy
Guide: Tomi

① Blue Corner
② Blue Corner
③ Blue Corner

It was a very blue day but only in the
colourful sense, we all had fun. At German
Channel we saw two mantas, one was cleaning
up super close and basically almost trying
to eat one of the customers! Then just as
we decided to leave a baby manta showed
up behind us! So cute! We also got to see
them from above during our safety stop and
compare their difference in size!

At Blue Holes the visibility was surprisingly
good and there were no other divers. Yay!
We had fun with the electric flame scallop
and a super cute little shrimp whose name
I do not know sat close by, posing for the
cameras.

At Blue Corner it was the day of the moorish
idols! There were approximately 400 of them!

At Ngemelis Wall we found a CROCODILEFISH!
My personal highlight of the day besides the
mantas!

See you tomorrow!

February 02 2020

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

Today was windy with occasional rain.

Air temperature: 29C
Water temperature: 28C

We went out on two boats.

BM1
Operator: Joe
Guide: Clayton

① German Channel
② New Drop Off
③ Blue Corner

BM3
Operator: Stacy
Guides: Yu with Shiori / Paula

① German Channel
② New Drop Off
③ Blue Corner

BM6
Operator: Susie
Guides: Tomi / Hiro

① German Channel
② Blue Corner
③ Blue Corner

Today was the day of the mantas, barracudas,
grey reef sharks and moorish idols!

At German Channel we saw two mantas cleaning
super close in front of us and then got another
bonus manta below us during our safety stop.
There were also blackfin barracudas. Why? I’m
not sure.

At New Drop Off we saw about 40 moorish idols,
a small teaser for what was waiting for us at
Blue Corner. There were also lots of blackspot
barracudas! And dragonets. Dragonets are adorable.

At Blue Corner the moorish idol party was on.
Seriously, guys, it was CRAAAAAAZY. There were
about FIVE HUNDRED (yes, 500!) moorish idols schooling
all around us and omg I cannot even, it was THE
BEST EVER!!! I wish I had pictures but I do not. Yet.
I will add them tomorrow. It was quite spectacular
though, also because they were constantly being
stalked by about 40-50 grey reef sharks! And a large
dogtooth tuna who just rammed into the school and
ate a few! Moorish idol snack.

I wonder if we can see even more tomorrow?

February 01 2020

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

The wind has picked up!

Air temperature: 31C
Water temperature: 28C

We went out on two boats today
and they were packed to the brim!

BM3
Operator: Stacy
Guides: Yu with Shiori / Paula with Shohei

① Ulong Cliff / Channel
② Grassland
③ Siaes Corner

BM6
Operator: Susie
Guides: Tomi / Hiro

① Ulong Cliff
② Siaes Corner
③ Siaes Corner

At Ulong Cliff today there was a cute little
baby spotted eagle ray! So cute! At the mouth
of the channel we got caught up in a huuuuuge
school of blackspot barracudas! Some bigeye
scads were being chased all around us by two
large gold spotted trevallies. To top if off,
there were about 30 moorish idols but everybody
was too distracted by the small school of black
fin barracudas (there? Why?) in the blue water!

At Grassland we had a wide party with soooooo
many whitetongue jacks! Also a large school of
sawtooth barracudas was hanging out right next
to us!

At Siaes Corner the current was mildly outgoing
and we had lots of fun with about 50 moorish
idols rushing all around us, their cute little
bannerheads wiggling in sync! After they left
two huuuuuge dogtooth tunas came to entertain us,
chasing the fusiliers and bigeye scads all around
us!

I can’t wait for tomorrow, see you then!

January 31 2020

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

The good weather streak continues.

Air temperature: 31C
Water temperature: 28C

We went out on two boats today.

BM1
Operator: Susie
Guide: Clayton

① Blue Corner
② Blue Holes
③ Chandelier Cave

BM6
Operator: Stacy
Guides: Tomi / Hiro
Refresh: Paula

① German Channel
② Blue Corner
③ New Drop Off

It was a nice day in Ngemelis, or so I was told.
Tonton saw a huge dogtooth tuna at Blue Corner,
at least 40 or 50 lbs! For those of us thinking
metric,that’s like 22 kg!
During his second dive at Blue Hole the current
was so nice that his team got to drift all the
way to Blue Corner, thus covering two dive spots
in one! Nice!

At Ngermeaus there were lots of yellow-lined scads
today, happy to report that the school seems to
have recovered a bit. We also met a friendly hawksbill
and lots of blacktip reef sharks!

See you tomorrow!

January 30 2020

Alii from Palau

this is Clayton doing dive blog for 01/30/2020

1st dive at Peleliu express with 20m

visibility. nice incoming current, but after 12mins

of dive time the current pick up from the out

going side. it push the school of giant trevally

toward us as we drift to the edge of the reef.

thats the good news, the bad news is when the

giant trevally left us, we were out in the blue and

could not make it back to the reef. making our

dive short, 20mins. its a fail dive.

2nd dive at Peleliu cut to the corner with 25m

visibility. a slow current at the entry point. lots of

school of fish around the cut. 2 big dog tooth tuna

showed up making the school of fish nervous and

keeping their distance from the dog tooth tuna.

half way to the corner the current started to

pick up and sharks started to swim closer to

the reef for a good close up shots. came to the

corner expecting to see the school of giant trevally

but no luck.

3rd dive at Peleliu cut again but this time we got

strong current, nice. this means that most fish

will be packed at the cut. now I know where to

look for the famous school of giant trevally,

piece of cake. as we slowly making our

way along the reef, my eye got caught on a large

shadow. as i lock my eyes on the target, i realize

its a hammer! i was so excited that i bang my tank

so loud that it turned away. oh man… my bad..

the sad thing too, that none of the divers got the

chance to see it. it doesnt count, but it my first

hammer head this year, 2020.

thank you for your time, Tonton signing out.

Happy Diving……

January 29 2020

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

The weather was lovely today.
It’s a lovely weather streak.

Air temperature: 30C
Water temperature: 28C

We went out on two boats.

BM2 – Charter
Operator: Clayton
Guide: Paula

① Blue Corner
② New Drop Off
③ Jellyfish Lake (just snorkeling obvs)

BM6
Operator: Stacy
Guides: Yu / Hiro / Shohei / Shiori

① German Channel
② Virgin Blue Hole
③ Blue Corner

Our BM2 Charter left early to get a private
Blue Corner experience and hell yes we did!
The current just changed from outgoing to
strong incoming and it was a party of grey
reef sharks and bigeye trevallies! So. Many.
Bigeye. Trevallies. I wanted to count but
I gave up because I am lazy. Here’s a picture.
Feel free to count:

The friendly Napoleon also came super close
because there was nobody else to hang out with.
Lucky us!

At New Drop Off the current was pretty weird
today, first strong incoming, but then after
about 2 minutes of hooking changed to outgoing.
It was weak outgoing though so we had fun with
small fish on the reef and, of course, the blue-
lined snappers!!

At German Channel there were seven mantas feeding!
Feeding – food – dinner time… enjoy your dinner
everyone! See you tomorrow!!

January 28 2020

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

It was another mantastic sunny day!

Air temperature: 31C
Water temperature: 28C

We went out on two boats.

BM3
Operator: Clayton
Guides: Rusher / Paula

① Ulong Cliff
② Grassland
③ Chandelier Cave

BM7
Operator: Susie
Guide: Yu

① Siaes Corner
② Shark City
③ Grassland

I got pictures today! So, first some
impressions from Ulong Cliff:

There were also soooo many fusiliers being
chased around, creating beautiful “fish rivers”
as well as a large school of bigeye scads and
of course bigeye trevallies!

At Grassland we had a MANTASTIC experience.
First there were two mantas cleaning, a regular
one and a BLACK ONE! So cool! The black one disappeared
quite quickly and soon after also the other one left,
but then a different manta came back and stayed foreeeever.
Well, at least until our NDLs started nearing the critical
mark. Here are pictures because mantas are BAE.

In the meantime, Yu spotted dolphins UNDERWATER at
Siaes Corner! About 20 of them!
At Shark City there were loooots of blackfin barracudas
and giant trevallies! And at Grassland they got to enjoy
the company of presumably the same three friendly mantas
that we met during our second dive!

It was a mantastic day. I promise this is the last time

I use this word today.

Have a great evening and see you tomorrow!

January 27 2020

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

Lovely weather today!

Air temperature: 31C
Water temperature: 28C

We went out on two boats today.

BM1
Operator: Susie
Guide: Paula with Shohei

① German Channel
② Blue Holes
③ Blue Corner

BM7
Operator: Stacy
Guide: Yu

① Peleliu Express
② Peleliu Cut – Corner
③ Peleliu Cut – Corner

At German Channel the current had just
turned to outgoing but the visibility
was still at about 12 metres! First
we met a friendly fantail stringray resting
on the sand! Then we waited at the cleaning
station and just when we were about to
give up there came THREE CLEANING MANTAS!
Awesome. Also lots of baby grey reef sharks –
what more can you ask for? Nothing!

At Blue Holes the visibility was nice at about
25 metres and we saw many pyramid butterflyfish,
longfin bannerfish, a lionfish, electric flame
scallops – all the stars were there!

At Blue Corner we were lucky enough to enter
at just the right time and get the entire
hooking area to ourselves!! The current was
strong outgoing and there were lots of sharks
and two huge Spanish mackerels. After unhooking
the school of blackfin barracudas basically
waited for us on top of the reef, stealing the
attention from the garden eels. We then drifted
over the sandy area, admiring the bigeye trevallies,
whitetongue jacks and black snappers before ascending
on the incoming side buoy number 2!

In Peleliu it was a day of giant trevallies –
giant trevallies on every dive! Success quota 100%! Yay!

Can’t wait for tomorrooooow!

January 26 2020

Alii from Palau.

How we all doing? hope all is fine.

This is Clayton doing dive blog for 01/26/20.

1st dive at Grass Land with 18m visibility.

nice outgoing current, perfect for my new

certified diver. nice and slow and relaxing dive.

most of the stars of this point were present, due

to our late entry we missed the manta ray. the

high light for this dive is the cold water fish

called the African Pompano or better known

as the thread fin trevally.

2nd dive at Siaes Corner with 22m visibility.

start our dive with a weak outgoing current

to almost no current, again perfect for my

new certified diver. nice and easy with

school of fish not knowing where to go, so

they were all over the drop off. making a

good impression for new diver to experience

under water beauty. the high light for this dive

was a male hawk’s bill turtle that came behind

our group and went between us. this turtle was

kinda strange that he swam toward the divers

that they have to give way for the turtle. my

impression was the turtle like looked at us and

like, whats up dude?, with that hang loose type

of look. this means that, this turtle trust divers

or haven’t been harass, so his cool with divers.

So i wish and hope that all divers respect all

aquatic life and give the right of way and space.

thank you for your time and see next time.

Tonton signing out. Happy diving……

January 25 2020

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

It’s still windy but the sun was great!

Air temperature: 31C
Water temperature: 28C

We went out on two boats today.

BM3
Operator: Stacy
Guide: Paula with Shohei
Intro: Hiro / Clayton

① Big Drop Off
② Blue Corner

BM7
Operator: Susie
Guide: Yu

① Grassland
② Siaes Corner
③ Ulong Channel

At Big Drop Off we had super nice visibility!
It was also the day of the moray eel. We spotted
a large one right after entering, and then
another super cute small yellow spotted one a bit
later one during our dive. There were also lots
of whitetip reef sharks and yellowspot emperors
as well as soooooo many anthias.

At Blue Corner the current was strong outgoing
so we entered from incoming buoy number 2 and
made our way across the reef where the fish
were hanging out. We saw lots of bigeye trevallies
and blackspot barracudas! There were also sooo
many turtles and sharks! After making our way to
the garden eels we drifted all the way to the corner
and over the reef edge where we got treated to
a school of blackfin barracudas!!!

Our Ulong team reported that the visibility at
Siaes Corner was amazing at over 30 metres! Also
the school of bigeye trevallies at Ulong Channel
was a true tornado!!

I wonder what we can see tomorrow?
Have a good night!

January 24 2020

Alii from Palau.

how you all doing? hope all is good.

this is Clayton doing dive blog for 01/24/20.

1st dive at Fairy Land with 15m visibility.

mild outgoing current, nice for photo

opportunity. This point usually hard corals

and few soft corals. small fish and few big

fish. so on this dive we saw small school

of barracuda, few green sea turtle. not

so much on this dive but my team enjoyed

their freedom under water looking for

something interesting.

2nd dive at blue corner with 18m visibility.

Entered on the 1st buoy on the incoming

side, but after 10mins the current seems

coming from the outgoing side. cut across

the reef to the other side and the current

seems to slow down and kinda change

to incoming, oh no. just waste my time

coming here then it change. so i turned

back and went straight to the very tip

of the reef and found small school of

thread fin butterfly fish(around 50)

mixed with back saddle butter fly fish.

very nice, the only large schooling of

butterfly fish on the reef all the time is

the pyramid butterfly fish. once again

the friendly napoleon wrasse came and

safe the dive, for this crazy current.

3rd dive at German Channel with 10m

visibility. i know, you might be thinking

what can you see with this kind of visibility.

hold your horse, let me tell you what we saw.

entered on the south side of the channel, came

to the main cleaning station found 2 gray reef

shark taking turns on the station, having the

cleaner wrasse doing their work on the shark

teeth. as the shark left the station, i decided

to move, but just as i turned my back. a dive

tap on my shoulder, pointing toward the station.

as i turned around a manta ray was there, then

one showed up and another, wow, 3 manta, yeah!

after 4mins, the other 2 manta left and went toward

the surface, meaning feeding time.as the last manta

left the station, I knew exactly what to do. to make

a long story short, we saw total of 8 manta ray

feeding out in the blue water, nice! i rest my case.

thank you and see next time. Tonton signing out.

Happy Diving………

January 22 2020

Alii from Palau.

how you all doing? hope all is good.

This is Clayton doing dive blog for 01/22/20.

1st dive at Ngemelis Wall with 15 to 20m

visibility. strong outgoing current, the main

focus for this dive was the school of black

fin snappers. and today was not that many

maybe less than thousand fish. the high

light for this dive was 6footer nurse shark

that was laying in cut on the reef. couldnt

get a good shot, cause its head was part

hidden. But i made sure that my divers

does not bother the shark. on this

dive was able to count total of 8 turtles.

2nd dive at blue corner with 20m visibility.

a strong outgoing current. but we made a

mistake and entered on the incoming side.

so i decided to go deep to check out the

Helfrich dart fish and decorated dart fish.

and we found lots of them, which is not

that common. made my way along the wall

hiding from the current to reach the tip

of the corner and stayed for awhile watching

fish activity and then the friendly napoleon

wrasse showed up and save the dive, thank you

fish!!

3rd dive at German Channel with 10m visibility.

the main focus for this dive was to observe the

manta ray feeding on plankton. so we spend

45mins watching the manta and i think there

were about 6 or 7 manta in all. but 3 of the

manta were small between 3 to 4feet, wing

span. so cute. during our safety stop, 2 big

giant trevally passed by with those mean

looking face, cheer up fish, we’re leaving.

thank you again and see you next time.

Tonton signing out. Happy diving.

January 21 2020

Alii from Palau

how we all doing? hope all is good!

this is Clayton doing dive blog for 01/21/20

1st dive at west passage with 18m visibility.

outgoing current, was nice in the begining

but died out after 33mins of the dive. the high

lights for this dive was a big school of white

tounge jacks, i would say over thousand of

fish. the biggest school i have seen. toward

the end of our dive a school o black fin

barracuda showed up and pause for a few

minutes for some picture and then left, nice.

2nd dive at Plenty fish with 15m visibility.

this site is Blue Marlin original point. at this time

the current has change to incoming, so i started

this dive with the reef on the right, but the other

way is much better. the high light for this dive

was the school of unicorn fish, rainbow runner,

glow spot sea breams, barracuda and a black

blotched sting ray. this ray was at about 30m

deep, so as we descend down to get closer

the water got cold and the visibility was clear,

weird. most cold water i encounter were

murky.

3rd dive at Siaes Corner with 20m visibility.

a weak incoming current, but after 30mins

the current change. the high light for this

dive was 50 plus gray reef sharks hanging out

along the reef. but the best part was we were

the only diver and only boat at siaes corner.

yahoo! what a dive, priceless.

thank you for your time and see you next time.

Tonton signing out. happy diving.

January 20 2020

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

Wow it’s getting windy out there…
Super sunny though!

Air temperature: 29C
Water temperature: 28C (26 at grassland)

We went out on one boat today.

BM6
Operator: Stacy
Guides: Hiro / Paula

① Grassland
② Siaes Corner
③ Ulong Cliff

BLACK MANTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
Need I say more? I think that pretty
much sums up our first dive at Grassland.
There was a huge black manta and it was
beautiful and kept doing its loops and
loops and loops and coming super close and
showing off its beautiful black belly and
it was just great. Period.

At Siaes Corner we had an absolute shark
party!! The current was nicely incoming and
after spotting two genormous dog tooth tunas
we hooked near the corner where we were treated
to soooo many sharks. I tried counting but it
was simply not possible. Too many baby sharks
and adult grey reef sharks. Amazing!

At Ulong Cliff unfortunately the current was
already outgoing so no channel for us BUT the
cliff was awesome! There were huge schools of
whitetongue jacks and big eye scads huddling
together as they were chased all over the cliff
by at least four huge gold spotted trevallies.
A very action loaded spectacle! Some grey reef
sharks seemed to want their piece of the cake too
and came up and close. We also got the cutest
little baby spotted eagle ray coming up super
close to us!!!

Today was awesome again. It’s been a series of
awesome days. We are so lucky! Thanks Palau!!

January 19 2020

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

The weather keeps on being awesome.
You do you, weather.

Air temperature: 31C
Water temperature: 28C

We went out on two boats.

BM6
Operator: Stacy
Guides: Tomi with Shohei / Hiro

① New Drop Off
② Blue Corner
③ German Channel

BM7
Operator: Moon
Guide: Paula
Intro: Clayton

① Blue Holes
② Ngemelis Wall
③ Blue Corner

At Blue Holes the visibility was super
nice and we got treated to quite a show!
There was a really cute black blotched
stingray surprising us! It suddenly
appeared below us swimming along the bottom
towards the entrance of the hole, showing
off its black spots!

At Ngemelis Wall there were sooooooo many
blacktail snappers today! At first you couldn’t
even recognise the reef because of all the
fish, and then it seemed like the reef was just
moving! They all posed beautifully for the
cameras, creating balls of fish and streams of
fish! There were also lots and lots of green
sea turtles as well as two hawksbill turtles!

For our third dive, we had Blue Corner ALL TO
OURSEVLES! It was wonderful! The current also
cooperated nicely, we got a steady incoming
current! At first we got wrapped up in a curtain
of big eye trevallies, and then as we moved on
to the hooking area behind the cut, there were
more sharks circling than we could count! Also
two large giant trevallies and Spanish mackerels
were chasing the fusiliers around. To top it off,
we got the school of blackfin barracudas on top
of the reef as well as a school of blackspot
barracudas just before ascending to our safety stop.

See you tomorrow!

January 18 2020

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

Great weather today!

Air temperature: 31C
Water temperature: 28C

We went out on two boats.

BM3
Operator: Moon
Guides: Clayton / Paula

① German Channel
② New Drop Off
③ Blue Corner

BM6
Operator: Stacy
Guides: Yu with Shohei
OWC: Hiro

① German Channel
② Blue Holes
③ Blue Corner

It was a sharky kind of day!
And those are obviously the
best kind of days! At German
Channel there were at least 50
grey reef BABY SHARKS! Omg so cute!
We also got a MANTA! Yayyy! And all
that in beautiful visibility – full
success!

At New Drop Off the current changed
to incoming JUST before we entered
but thank god we noticed and adjusted
our entry point. There were sooo many
sharks at the hooking area! We also
got a large school of blackspot barracudas
and many many turtles, big and small!

At Blue Corner the current was strong
incoming and we got caught up in a
bigeye trevally storm! So. many.
Also so many sharks. And tunas. And
Spanish mackerels – a sad day for macro.

Today was great, I wonder what we can
see tomorrow?

January 17 2020

Alii from Palau

How we all doing? hope all is fine.

this is Clayton doing dive blog for 01/17/2020

1st dive at ulong cliff all the way to Ulong

channel. nice slow incoming current with

20m visibility. on this dive was a feeding

action by blue fin trevally and yellow fin

trevally chasing the school of big eye

scad around the reef. what amazing about

this dive is the school of big eye scad came

between the divers, the hunters came so

close that freak me out, cause they could

ram you if they miss their target. on this

dive i was looking for the school of big

eye trevally, but i couldnt find them

out side the reef where they usually

hang out. so we continue our dive into

the channel and during our safety stop

i spot them on right side of the channel, nice.

2nd dive at Grass land with 20m visibility.

little bit incoming current making us going

against the current, but not that bad. so

just in the beginning of our dive there was

the school of one spot barracuda, then in the

middle of the sandy area was the school of

Chevron barracuda mixed with the school

of white tongue jacks. as i continue the dive,

on a particular table coral i notice a baby

blue tang surgeon fish which been a long time

since i see one many moons ago. at grass land

theres a rare butter fly fish that i only see on

this site called Merten’s butter fly. pls check

the fish book its very unique fish.

3rd dive at Siaes corner with 25m visibility.

good outgoing current with the wall on the

right. when i say good, you are able to use the

reef hook on this dive. while your hooked in

the current make the fish come in front of the

hooking point so you can watch fish activity

effortlessly. spend 15mins on the hooking,

then i decided to unhook and just finish

our dive with a drift. after 3mins, the current

change so quickly, oh man! not now!

its half moon, there’s nothing you can do

about it, just go with the flow. cant beat the

mother nature. on this dive we got to see

the first buffalo fish, and you know during

the cycle of the new moon this fish are starting

to show on the dive site. meaning that the

party is starting soon, so be ready for one

of world big orgy.

thank you for your time, all the time.

Tonton signing out. happy diving.

January 16 2020

alii from Palau

how you all doing?hope all is good.

this Clayton doing dive blog for 01/16/20.

1st dive at German channel with 20m

visibility. its half moon today so we got

slow incoming current. perfect for my beginner

diver and first time in Palau. again we got to

see those school of baby gray reef sharks that

still staying at the channel but im sure when

they are mature enough they will leave the

channel and explore new sites, good luck sharkys.

we missed the manta because we run out of air,

but they enjoyed that dive of 41mins.

2nd dive at blue hole with 25m visibility.

another good condition at the hole. just

us and one other dive shop. the sun was in perfect

position that you can see the suns ray coming

down from the openings, nice. as we exit the

the hole a great barracuda was waiting for us

outside the hole.

3rd dive at blue corner with 22m visibility.

again its half moon so the current is unpredictable.

weak outgoing current, perfect for my divers. after

15mins it change to in coming. we so all the stars

of blue corner except the school of barracuda, but

i knew where they were. i didnt want to bring my

beginner diver out into the blue. again they had

a great time at blue corner where they almost

saw everything they expected to see.

thank you again and see you next time.

Tonton signing out. happy diving.

January 15 2020

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

The weather was absolutely lovely today!

Air temperature: 31C
Water temperature: 28C

We went out on two boats.

BM3
Operator: Moon
Guides: Yu / Hiro

① Siaes Corner
② Siaes Tail
③ Grassland

BM7
Operator: Clayton
Guide: Paula

① Aquarium
② Grassland

At Aquarium the visibility today was
gorgeous and the current just right!
We entered with the reef on our left
and slowly made our way towards the
reef. As we approached the corner,
we saw 11 grey reef sharks circling
at around 27 metres depth – yay for
Nitrox! They were surrounded by sooo
many fusiliers, dark-banded and red-
bellied, creating a super colourful
stream of fish over the reef edge!
There were also a looooot of twin
spot snappers as well as of course
our yellow friends, the yellowfin
goatfish! To top it off, a large
school of blackspot barracudas as
well as some longfin batfish!
Great dive!!!

At Grassland the visibility was also
great! There was no manta at the cleaning
station but we were treated to quite the
spectacle right next to it! There was a
school of whitetongue jacks being chased
around viciously by gold spotted trevallies
and grey reef sharks. Right next to them,
seemingly unbothered, a school of sawtooth
barracudas was circling on the sand. Awesome!
Then after greeting the garden eels we
continued along the coral and suddenly got
surprised by a manta!! It swam towards us,
did a beautiful somersault and then left –
thanks Manta!

At Siaes Corner Yu’s and Hiro’s teams saw
lots of orangespine surgeonfish and many

grey reef sharks!!

A beautiful day today, let’s hope for great
weather tomorrow too!

January 14 2020

Alii from Palau.

how you all doing? hope all is good!

this is Clayton doing dive blog for 01/14/20

1st dive at German channel with 21m

visibility. slow outgoing current, 11mins

to our dive, we saw the school of baby

gray reef shark around 20 plus.

continue toward the main cleaning

station, stayed for 10mins waiting for

the manta ray but no show. while

we were waiting couple of gray reef

sharks came and used the cleaning

station, nice. my team didn’t see the

manta and i know it not my fault.

German Channel today was full packed,

next time.

2nd dive at New drop off with 20m

visibility. start our dive with a weak

outgoing current but after 20mins

the current picked up, making the school

of fish to come together where we are

hooked in, nice. along the dive we got

to see that rare butterfly fish called

patch eye. and also another rare animal

we saw was a octopus being chase by

lyre tail grouper.

3rd dive at Blue corner with 18m

visibility, again weak outgoing current but

after 18mins the current picked up. on this

dive we got to see 2 dog tooth tuna,

i would say about 40 to 50lbs, plus 2

great barracuda. the high lights for this

dive was the school of orange spine

surgeon fish around 50 plus, swiming

back and forth on the reef. this fish will

get more as the moon comes to new moon.

so i will let you know later on, so keep in touch

with blue marlin dive blog.

thank you for your time and see you next time.

Tonton signing out, happy diving.

January 13 2020

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

It was super hot again today and
I got sunburnt again. At least it
wasn’t my face. Yay for that.

Air temperature: 32C (scalding)
Water temperature: 28C

We went out on two boats today.

BM3
Operator: Stacy
Guides: Rusher / Paula

① Grassland
② Siaes Corner
③ Chandelier Cave

BM6
Operator: Moon
Guides: Tomi / Hiro

① Ulong Cliff
② Siaes Tunnel
③ Siaes Corner

The pressure is on for this blog because
apparently some people read it every day!
Are there more of you out there? I must know!

Anyways, all our teams ventured out to Ulong
today and the weather was just perfect for it.
At Grassland the visibility was wonderful at
about 15 metres and the sunshine made it look
even clearer. Immediately after descending we
spotted manta action at the cleaning station
and rushed there as fast as we could (at a safe,
controlled pace of course to make sure we wouldn’t
disturb our manta friends). There were two large
mantas cleaning at the station and although one
of them left soon after, the other one just hung
out and kept cleaning for ages, even as other
groups gathered to watch. When we decided to move
on not to neglect the other fish, we also found
a longnose filefish! So cute!

At Siaes Corner there was no current when we first
checked, but after entering from the outgoing side
the current picked up slightly just as we arrived
at the hooking area. We didn’t need our hooks but
the current was perfect just to hover and watch
the grey reef sharks and black snappers as well as
a huge dogtooth tuna. There were also lots of large
trevallies today, a group of about 6 bluefin trevallies
were hunting the fusiliers along with two large
gold spotted trevallies. We also saw a school of
Pacific double-saddled butterfly fish!

At Siaes Tunnel Tomi’s and Hiro’s teams were treated
to a tornado of bigeye trevallies as well as lots of
decorated dartfish!

Let’s hope for more friendly fish tomorrow!

January 12 2020

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

The weather was beautiful today and
I got sunburnt despite SPF 50+. Yay.

Air temperature: 31C
Water temperature: 28C

We went out on three boats today.

BM3
Operator: Moon
Guides: Tomi / Hiro

① Blue Holes
② New Drop Off
③ Blue Corner

BM6
Operator: Clayton
Guides: Rusher / Paula
Assistant: Saku (best. day. ever!)

① Blue Holes
② New Drop Off
③ Blue Corner

BM7
Operator: Stacy
Guide: Yu

① Blue Holes
② Blue Corner

The visibility at Blue Holes was beautiful
today and all the Blue Marlin teams gathered
there at the same time! Blue Marlin Party!
My go-to electric flame scallops have reduced
two only ONE (omg) so pray for the little electric
flame scallop please. There was also a super
cute lionfish. It seems like the fire dartfish
grew their family because now there are no longer
two large ones but around 5 very small ones.

At New Drop Off the current was quite a challenge
so we pondered and pondered and eventually decided
to go in from the outgoing side – good choice!
The current picked up slowly and we got treated
to a moray eel, lots of big green sea turtles and,
as our highlight, a school of approximately 200
orangespine surgeonfish!! They were being hunted
by two grey reef sharks and moving back and forth
frantically, super fun to watch!

At Blue Corner our current luck wasn’t quite as
good – slow incoming current when we entered but
then it changed to outgoing after about 15 minutes –
oh nooooo! We still got treated to a bigeye trevally
festival, though, as they decided to take exactly
the same course across the reef as we did, to make
it to the outgoing side. The Napoleon was looking
quite silly today and giving us the weird side eye
but still came up close for some pictures.
The decorated dartfish is also still there!

That’s it from me today, see you tomorrow!

January 11 2020

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

The wind has finally slowed down!
It was a little grey in the morning
but cleared up just in time for lunch!

Air temperature: 30C
Water temperature: 28C

We went out on three boats today.

BM3
Operator: Moon
Guides: Tomi / Hiro

① Grassland
② Ulong Cliff
③ Siaes Corner

BM6
Operator: Stacy
Guides: Rusher / Paula

① Ulong Cliff
② Grassland
③ Siaes Corner

BM7
Operator: Clayton
Guide: Yu
Assistant: Saku

① Siaes Tunnel
② Aquarium
③ Ulong Channel

Ulong was surprisingly empty today,
not many boats! Yay! Both BM3 and BM6
dove Ulong Cliff during outgoing current
but we saw lots of blackspot barracudas,
grey reef sharks and gold spotted trevallies
chasing the fusiliers around the cliff!

At Grassland there was no manta today but
lots of whitetongue jacks and blackspot
barracudas! We also found a spotted shrimpgoby,
a signalfin goby and lots of fire dartfish!
Sometimes it’s nice to focus on the little
things in life!

At Siaes Corner we were treated to quite a
spectacle when we saw four gold spotted
trevallies, a big dog tooth tuna and a few
bluefin trevallies all chase around a big
school of big eye scads! Some grey reef sharks
and whitetip reef sharks tried to get a piece
of the action too! There was also a large
Napoleon wrasse just hanging around nearby as
though to watch the whole thing.

At Siaes Tunnel Yu found a Helfrich’s dartfish
and lots of decorated dartfish! Dartfish party!

Let’s hope for lots of sunshine tomorrow!
See you then!

January 10 2020

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

The sun shone bright for JAL today!

Air temperature: 30C
Water temperature: 28C

We went out on three boats today.

BM3
Operator: Stacy
Guides: Rusher / Paula

① Ngemelis Wall
② Blue Corner
③ German Channel

BM6
Operator: Moon
Guides: Tomi / Hiro

① Big Drop Off
② Blue Corner
③ German Channel

BM7
Operator: Clayton
Guide: Yu

① Shark City
② Peleliu Cut
③ Peleliu Corner

Our Ngemelis teams started the day off
calmly with Big Drop Off and Ngemelis Wall,
respectively. We saw looooots of turtles
so it definitely qualifies as a good dive.
Who doesn’t love turtles?

At Blue Corner we entered with basically
zero current but still managed to see all
the stars! Big eye trevallies, sharks galore,
blackspot barracudas – and lots of divers!
There were still a feeeeeew moorish idols
left but also surprisingly many butterfly
fish! They look even cuter when they swim
in sync!

At German Channel we waited and waited for
just the right current and BAM – it was a
manta train / feeding festival! Amaaaazing!
We saw 10 mantas feeding at the same time
but in total there must have been even more!
Mantas left, right and center, literally!
We didn’t even know where to look! Mantas
everywhere!

Yu’s team first enjoyed the red snapper
spawning and then headed to Peleliu where
they saw a FOUR METER TIGER SHARK! Whaaaaaaatt!
So jealous!!

All in all a great day! I can’t wait for tomorrow!

January 9 2020

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

Lovely weather today!

Air temperature: 30C
Water temperature: 28C

We went out on two boats today.

BM1
Operator: Gonzo
Guide: Yu

① Blue Corner
② Blue Corner
③ German Channel

BM6
Operator: Clayton
Guides: Hiro / Paula

① Blue Corner
② New Drop Off
③ German Channel

What a great dive day today!
At Blue Corner the current was very
weak incoming so we entered with the
reef on our right. A huuuuge school of
giant trevallies basically followed us
from the elevated hooking area all the
way to the hooking area behind the cut,
creating what seemed like a wall of
trevallies right in front of us! There
were also lots of grey reef sharks, three
huuuuuge dogtooth tunas and a Spanish
mackerel!

At New Drop Off the current was slightly
outgoing and it was a turtle fest! At
one point we had a hawksbill turtle and
a green sea turtle basically right next
to each other for perfect comparison. We
also found lots of blackspot barracudas
mingling with some whitetongue jacks!

At German Channel we waited until the
current was incoming and then set off
on our search for feeding mantas! And
we were rewarded! First we saw two
feeding mantas and then later Yu’s team
counted EIGHT! They’re so pretty when
they swim around in loops, pushing their
tummies out into the blue!
While we were still searching, we returned
to the sandy bottom at one point to get
caught up in a huuuuge school of whitetongue
jacks only then to be hit by what seemed
like a solid wall of dark-banded fusiliers!
So cool!

I can’t wait for tomorrow, see you then!

January 8 2020

alii from Palau

How you all doing? hope all is good!

This is clayton doing dive blog for 01/08/2020.

1st dive at Grass Land with 15m visibility.

again still strong wind here in Palau and

outgoing current in the morning so it

carry the murky water out to the drop

off. our dive at Grass land was not that

bad, we got to see a rare fish that usually

comes to the island during December and

January when the water temprature change

by 0ne degree. this fish is called thread fin

trevally, cold water fish. toward the end of

our dive close to the entry point, we saw

a manta ray at the cleaning station, but

this manta only did 2 rounds on the station

then left. thank you Mr. Manta….

2nd dive at Siaes Corner with 20m visibility.

entered at the incoming side with a weak

current but after 6mins the current change.

but we were able to reach other side of the

reef with no problem, current was weak too.

the high light for this dive was feeding action

of yellow fin trevally and dog tooth tuna, plus

few gray reef sharks chasing the school of

big eye scad. another high light was tons

of gray reef sharks hanging out on the

corner of the reef, they were alot that

why I say tons!

3rd dive at Ulong Channel with 10m visibility.

I didnt expect the visibility to be good, because

of the condition. but I really expect a nice

incoming current on this dive. but it turns out

very weak and upsetting. something wrong

with the mother nature nowadays.

the high light for this dive was the school

of baby gray reef sharks just inside the

entrance of the channel. they were about

2ft in length and i couldn’t get the exact

count due to the visibility but i estimate

to be around 20 plus sharks. and again

we saw another thread fin trevally inside the

channel. well that all for me. thank you for

your precious time and see you next time.

Tonton signing out. Happy diving!…

January 7 2020

alii from Palau.

How is all doing? still have the new years

flu? hope all is well.

This Clayton doing dive blog for 01/07/2020.

Still windy down here in paradise and choppy.

1st dive at Ngemelis wall with 12m visibility.

entered with the reef on the left with outgoing

current. the current this time was a little bit

fast that i almost run out of reef. 14mins to

our dive we get to see our first turtle. it

does not take that long to see a turtle at

this point. so this dive i counted 8 total

turtles. the high light for this dive was

9 huge buffalo fish that i spot them

fish. and the thing is, its off season for

the buffalo fish to around at Ngemelis wall.

2nd dive at blue hole with 20m visibility.

today we still had big waves breaking on

the reef and so i expect the visibility to be

bad and it turns out, not that bad, it was

good. and what makes it more better is,

we were the only dive shop in the hole that

time, wow amazing! Its busy time for Palau.

so again we had a good time inside Blue hole

for our self, nothing beats that. having that

as one of the high light, here is the high light

for me. a huge, bad ass giant trevally that was

stalking the small school of Moorish Idol on the

reef. yes it was that big, bigger than the Napoleon

of blue corner.

3rd dive at Blue Corner with 20m visibility.

check the current twice and decide to enter

on the incoming side. as we made our entry and

just 3mins in, the current seems to come from

the other side, shit. so i started to cross the reef

to the other side, and as i reach the middle of

the reef, the current stopped and start to come

from my behind, shit. I realize its 2 days after

half moon, so the current is unpredictable.

so I went to the very corner of the reef and

found lots of schooling of fish hanging out there.

lucky me, I almost screw up this dive. so again

all the blue corner stars were present and they

save the day. Cheers!

thank you for your time and i hope you had

fun reading this dive blog. happy diving.

Tonton signing out.

January 6 2020

Alii and happy new year to all.

how is all doing? hope all is good.

this is Clayton doing dive blog

for 01/06/2020. this is my first

dive blog for this year and my

first dive of the year 2020.

1st dive at German Channel with

a poor visibility, its like less than 10m.

reason for a poor visibility is strong

wind from east north east, so on the

shallow water is very choppy that

stir up and the current bring it down

to the channel. we didn’t see the

manta ray so i will not say anymore

about this dive, it was bad.

2nd dive at New Drop off with 20m

visibility. entered on the incoming

side but after 12mins the current

change to outgoing.the high light

for this dive was a small school

of moorish idols, about 50 of them

came up from the deep and behind

the school was 12 gray reef sharks

fallowing the moorish idols.

3rd dive at blue corner with 20m

visibility. slow outgoing current, perfect

for my low experience divers. after

16mins of dive time the current kinda

change a bit and stop and then continue

outgoing, but weak. all the stars were

present at blue corner including the

new star that showed up. I meant

the Moorish Idol. during this time of

the year they start to mate and they

come in big school. they also attract

the gray reef sharks and other predator

fish like the giant trevally and the red

bass. so this event will go on for about

a month. the only question is, the timing

and the face of the moon.

thank you for your time and see you

next time. Tonton signing out.

Happy diving.

January 5 2020

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

Today was slightly rougher than yesterday
but still very nice conditions!

Air temperature: 28C
Water temperature: 27C

We went out on two boats today.

BM1
Operator: Moon

Guide: Yu

① New Drop Off
② Blue Corner

BM6
Operator: Clayton
Guides: Tomi / Paula

① Grassland
② Siaes Corner
③ Ulong Cliff

Grassland was amaaaaaaazing today!
We entered with nice visibility of
about 15 metres! Just as we were
gathering below the mooring buoy,
a manta swam super closely past us!!
Off to a great start we continued
towards the sandy area as the cleaning
station was presently not occupied,
and watched lots of whitetongue jacks
and blackspot barracudas! Then we saw
the manta out in the blue, turning and
swimming back towards the cleaning station!
So off we were! We made our way to the
cleaning station, accompanied by a beautiful
school of whitetongue jacks mingling with
the blackspot barracudas, creating an
awesome image all by itself already, but
then those two schools swam right to the
cleaning station where they were joined
by a large school of sawtooth barracudas.
Picture this: Sawtooth barracudas, blackspot
barracudas, whitetongue jacks and a shark
all scrambling about the cleaning station
and then BAM – A MANTA JOINED THE FUN!
Also, no other divers. What more can you
ask for?? We watched it clean for as long
as our NDLs allowed and came up super excited!

At Siaes Corner the current was slowly
outgoing but there were sooo many sharks at
the hooking area! We also saw about 70 moorish
idols swimming down the wall just before the
big cut. There was also a genormous dogtooth
tuna super close to us as well as many gold
spotted trevallies.

At Ulong Cliff we got to see bigeye trevallies,
blackspot barracudas, a huge baitball of fusiliers,
bigeye scads being chased by gold spotted trevallies
as well as friendly whitetip and grey reef sharks!

A great day! Have a lovely evening!

January 4 2020

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

What a wonderful day today. Sunny,
(almost) calm seas, and very few boats.
Jackpot.

Air temperature: 30C
Water temperature: 27C

We went out on three boats today.

BM1
Operator: Moon
Guide: Tomi

① Ulong Cliff
② Siaes Corner
③ Siaes Corner

BM6
Operator: Stacy
Guides: Hiro / Paula

① Blue Holes
② German Channel
③ Blue Corner

BM7
Operator: Clayton
Guide: Rusher

① German Channel
② Blue Holes

Ngemelis was amaaaaaaaaazing today! First off,
the visibility was breathtaking! Over 35 metres
at Blue Holes!! And even better – very very few
boats only! Yay! And none of them at Blue Holes!
Double yay! So basically we had the best of times
and the great barracuda and electric flame scallop
just made it even better.

At German Channel we got treated to the most beautiful
manta show! Again there were no other teams – miracle –
and we secured the prime seats at the Koror side
cleaning station. Soon after we waited for a little
bit, three beaaaauuutiful mantas appeared and cleaned
and cleaned and cleaned away happily, until we had
to ascend because our dive computers were getting
angry with us. What a treat!!

At Blue Corner the current was nice incoming and
eeeeverybody was there, but by everybody I mean the
fish and not other dive teams, woop woooooop! We found
the decorated dartfish, bigeye tevallies, blackfin
barracudas, blackspot barracudas, Napoleon wrasses,
blue-lined snappers, a dog tooth tuna, a Spanish
mackerel, lots of gold spotted trevallies… we didn’t
even know where to look! Beautiful!

At Siaes Corner Tomi’s team got treated to almost
100 sharks at the corner with a nice outgoing current!
There was also a small school of moorish idols!

Oh I almost forgot to mention that we also found a large
pod of dolphins next to New Drop Off!! That could explain
the wonderful day – how can a day that starts with lots
of dolphins spraying water on you possibly go badly?
It cannot! Let’s hope for more dolphins tomorrow!

See you then!

January 3 2020

Happy new year.
It is Hiro.

Operator Moon
Guide Tominaga Yu
①German channel
②Blue corner
③Blue corner

In the German channel, six manta rays were feeding.
Great! !

There were about 200 Moorish idols in the blue corner!
It is very beautiful!

Operator Stacy
Guide Rusher Hiro
①Ulong Cliff
②Sias corner
③Grassland

Temperature 30 ℃
Water temperature 28 ℃

Bigeye scads was chased by Yellowspotted trevally at Ulong Cliff,
There was impressive.
I was able to meet the baby of the Spotted eagle ray.

The Sias Corner is a shark party!
You can see about 50 sharks at once!

Grassland
I saw a group of Black spot barracuda!

Let’s enjoy tomorrow!

January 2 2020

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

It’s still very windy!

Air temperature: 30C

Water temperature: 27C

We went out on three boats today.

BM1
Operator: Stacy
Guide: Hiro

① Ulong Cliff
② Siaes Corner

BM3
Operator: Clayton
Guides: Rusher / Paula

① German Channel
② New Drop Off
③ Blue Corner

BM6
Operator: Moon
Guides: Tomi / Yu

① German Channel
② Blue Holes / Blue Corner
③ Blue Corner

Today was the day of the Indian mackerels,
trevallies and moorish idols! Hiro claims he
saw at least 150 Indian mackerels singing their
way through Ulong! A smaller school was also
entertaining our customers while waiting for
mantas at the cleaning station at German
Channel. We saw two large mantas cleaning, yay!
There was also a baby manta swimming super close
to us while we were checking out a friendly
octopus! As we were waiting at the cleaning station,
a fantail stingray decided to take center stage
and do a gentle loop around us!

At Blue Holes we had some macro fun with the electric
flame scallop and a super cute flatworm right next
to it. There were also two lionfish! After leaving
the hole and swimming along the wall, we also spotted
the cutest little nudibranch! Today’s team was a group
of macro lovers so everybody got excited!

Speaking of macro, at Blue Corner everybody enjoyed
watching the friendly decorated dartfish. It must
have gotten used to the attention by now because it
just lets you takes pictures for ages. Just as we
arrived at the cut on the incoming side, the current
picked up so we could hook and enjoy some sharks as
well as the feeding spectacle of the gold spotted
trevallies chasing the fusiliers! At the corner there
were about 150 moorish idols!!!!

Have a nice evening!

January 1 2020

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

HAPPY NEW YEAR! Frohes neues Jahr!
Akemashite omedetou gozaimasu!

The weather held up for the first half
of the first day of the new year but
then turned utterly dreadful as soon
as we were back at the shop. Rain galore!

Air temperature: 30C (colder in the rain)
Water temperature: 27C (time for the long suit)

We went out on three boats today! Busyyyyy!

BM3
Operator: Moon
Guides: Tomi / Rusher

① German Channel
② Virgin Blue Hole
③ Blue Corner

BM6
Operator: Clayton
Guides: Yu / Paula / Saku (Assistant)

① Blue Corner
② New Drop Off
③ Blue Corner

BM7
Operator: Stacy
Guide: Hiro

① Blue Corner
② New Drop Off
③ Blue Corner

It’s been busy recently at German Channel as the
high season is in full swing so there were lots of
boats today as well. However, our teams were lucky
to observe two mantas!

At Blue Corner the current tricked everyone as it
looked like outgoing but then changed to incoming
after about 15 minutes. However, the bigeye trevallies
were creating a beautiful little tornado next to the
reef edge and the napoleon was super friendly today.
It even tried to nibble on our customer.

At New Drop Off the visibility was murky but we saw
looooooots of black spot barracudas and found a baby
Morrison’s dragonet! Yaaaaaay! It was so cute.

When we entered Blue Corner again for our third dive
the current had stopped completely so we decided on
the incoming side to have fun with the decorated
dartfish! It was also a trevally fest – bigeye
trevallies, a school of blue trevallies, two giant
trevallies (literally), five orange spotted trevallies
as well as three huge gold spotted trevallies chasing
the fusiliers around!

A great start to the new year! Have a nice evening!

This blog post was brought to you by pizza. Pizza is life.

December 31 2019

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

OMG last blog post of the year!!
Of the decade even!
A historic moment. I cannot.

The wind is blowing us into 2020
with full speed.

Air temperature: 28C
Water temperature: 27C (yup it’s cold)

We went out on three boats today because why not.

BM3
Operator: Moon
Guides: Tomi / Rusher

① Grassland
② Siaes Tunnel
③ Ulong Channel

BM6
Operator: Clayton
Guides: Yu / Paula / Saku (Assistant)

① German Channel
② Grassland
③ Siaes Corner

BM7
Operator: Stacy
Guide: Hiro

① Ulong Cliff
② Grassland
③ Siaes Corner

At German Channel the visibility was at about 13 metres
but that was hard to tell because there were sooo
many divers. Divers everywhere. However, we still
got to see lots of mantas so it was a successful
dive! Yay!!

At Grassland the visibility was slightly better
and we saw lots of barracudas – blackspot barracudas
and sawtooth barracudas galore! Also three large
gold spotted trevallies chasing the dark-banded and
red-bellied fusiliers all over the place!

The current at Siaes Corner was veeeeeery slow incoming
and we drifted over the reef at a super relased pace.
There were lots of bigeye scads being chased by bluefin
trevallies! Also lots of fusiliers being attacked by
gold spotted trevallies. It’s hunting season!
To top it off we got lots of grey reef sharks, including
some cute baby ones!

It’s been a great year with lots of diving, fish, fun,
sweat, rain, wind, blue, mantas, sharks… I could go on
forever but now if you will excuse us, it is time to get
ready for 2020! Guten Rutsch, as we say in German!!

See you next year!!

December 30 2019

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

It’s still super windy!

Air temperature: 29C
Water temperature: 27C (time to layer up!)

We went out on three boats today.

BM3
Operator: Stacy
Guides: Tomi / Rusher

① Big Drop Off
② New Drop Off
③ Blue Corner

BM6
Operator: Humio
Guides: Yu / Paula

① Big Drop Off
② Ngemelis Wall / Blue Corner
③ Blue Corner

BM7
Operator: Clayton
Guide: Hiro

① Blue Holes
② New Drop Off
③ Blue Corner

The wind is super strong so we’re limited to the
points protected by Ngemelis Island but those are
awesome points, so no problem! At Big Drop Off we
found lots of twinspot snappers schooling at the
bottom (yay for Nitrox)! There were also sooo many
squarespot anthias and peach anthias! Since tiny
things equal cute things we also had fun with the
candycane dwarf gobies and whip coral gobies.

At Ngemelis Wall we saw lots of green sea turtles
including a huuuuuuuuuge one. And now wait for it –
we got A MANTA AT NGEMELIS WALL! Amaaaaazing!!
It passed us from behind and then swam super slowly
as though giving us time to marvel at its elegance.
In my opinion finding a manta in a place where there
usually are none beats watching mantas at their
cleaning station! Yay! There was also a school of
Indian mackerels chasing around and feeding, donning
their signature choir vibe. Every single time I see
Indian mackerels I imagine them singing. You should
give it a try. It’s hilarious.
In the meantime, the other team at Blue Corner explored
the macro hole and found lots of decorated dartfish
and Helfrich’s dartfish!

At New Drop Off there were loooots of fusilier
damselfish spawning! Hiro also spotted an adorable
nudibranch!

At Blue Corner we saw a huuuuuuge school of bigeye
trevallies as well as a huuuuuuuuuge school of black
spot barracudas. There were also lots of longnose
emperors chasing around lots of small fish together
with some napoleons, creating quite the commotion.
We also came across a Spanish mackerel, two giant
trevallies, three gold spotted trevallies and a small
school of blue trevallies. Trevally time!

Have a lovely evening!

December 29 2019

alii from Palau

how you all doing? hope all is good.

this is Clayton doing dive blog for 12/29/2019

1st dive at Fairy land with 20m visibility.

slow outgoing current. this point is a hard

corals and small fish. but today we got to see

a ornet eagle ray and a spotted eagle ray.

along the dive there was a small school of

black fin barracuda, 2 unit of giant trevally

and few green sea turtle.

2nd dive at New Drop off with 20m

visibility. weak incoming current making

all the fish scattered over the reef. but

the high light for this dive is the napoleon

wrasse. there were many young wrasse

and 4 adults , that they were mating.

3rd dive at blue corner with 17m

visibility. nice incoming current that

push most of the fish to the 13m hooking

area. along the dive we saw dog tooth tuna

yellow fin trevally and spanish mackerel.

try to look for the barracuda but couldnt

find them.

thank you again for your time.

tonton signing out. happy diving.

December 28 2019

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

Wow it’s gotten windy! Sunny without rain though!

Air temperature: 30C
Water temperature: 28C

We went out on two boats.

BM3
Operator: Humio
Guides: Tomi / Clayton

① Grassland
② Siaes Corner
③ Ulong Channel

BM6
Operator: Stacy
Guides: Yu / Hiro / Paula

① Ulong Cliff
② Grassland
③ Siaes Corner

At Grassland Tomi’s and Clayton’s teams found two
mantas cleaning! Yay! The visibility was great today
at around 25 metres! There were also lots of blackspot
and sawtooth barracudas as well as schools of bigeye
scads and whitetongue jacks!

At Ulong Cliff we had fun with the bigeye trevallies and
at least five super large gold spotted trevallies
chasing bigeye scads and whitetongue jacks all over the
cliff! Super dynamic! There was also a beautiful school
of circular spadefish!

At Siaes Corner we saw lots of baby sharks and adult
grey reef sharks as well as a super large school of
blackspot barracudas and also – yaaay – blackfin barracudas!

A great day at Ulong today! Have a nice evening!

December 27 2019

Alii from Palau

this is clayton doing dive blog for 12/27/2019

1st dive at Ngemelis wall with 20m visibility.

nice outgoing current, the high light for

this dive was a big eagle ray that was at about

25m just hanging out. during my safety stop

a big school of convict surgeon fish was feeding

on top of the reef and i kinda estimate their

number to be around 500 plus,of fish. first

time i see this fish at this point.

2nd dive at New drop off with 20m

visibility. slow incoming current and sometime

stop and change a bit. so this kind of current

make the fish go crazy cause they swim

back and ford trying to figure out the current.

the high light for this dive was a eye-patch

butter fly fish that usualy stay in deep

water but this time we saw it at 13m.

3rd dive at blue corner with 18m visibility.

outgoing current, all the stars were present

and a big great barracuda plus few of yellow

fin trevally cruising along the reef. this dive was

kind a relaxing. it was nice and easy, what can

i say. well folks that all for me now see you next

time. Tonton signing out. happy diving.

December 26 2019

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

Super nice weather today for Boxing Day!

Air temperature: 31C
Water temperature: 28C

We went out on two boats today.

BM3
Operator: Stacy
Guides: Tomi with Paula

① Peleliu Express
② Peleliu Cut – Corner
③ Peleliu Cut

BM6
Operator: Clayton
Guides: Yu / Hiro

① German Channel
② Blue Holes
③ Blue Corner

Peleliu Tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiime!
We did three dives in rather easygoing
current today and it was a trevally kind
of day! We saw a big school of bluefin
trevallies! They weren’t huddled together
but rather all over the place so it seemed
like an ocean full of bluefin trevallies.
Right next to them we found a large school
of Heller’s barracudas!

We also got to see a huuuuuuuge school of
giant trevallies! Yay! They came super close
and were all around us!

On the surface we were surprised by lots of
super friendly dolphins! They were playing in
the surf of the boat and jumping and spraying
us with water. So cute! Here’s a picture of
a dolphin’s butt. You are welcome.

At German Channel the other teams saw three
mantas cleaning! Nice Christmas treat!

At Blue Corner we also found a decorated dartfish
at surprisingly shallow depth! I hope it’ll still
be there tomorrow!!

Have a lovely evening!

December 25 2019

Greetings from the Island of Palau.

Merry Christmas to all and a Happy

New Year. this Clayton doing dive

blog for 12/25/2019.

1st dive at Grass Land with 18m visibility.

what a 1st dive for a Christmas day. 3 manta

ray at the cleaning station, one black manta,

one cute baby manta and one adult manta.

other than that we got yellow fin trevally and.

a dog tooth tuna chasing the school of fusiliers

on the reef attracting gray reef shark to join

the chase. what a dive at grass land!

2nd dive at Sieas Corner with 20m visibility.

a slow incoming current perfect for photo

aportunity. along the dive, 3 big buffalo fish

on top of the reef. just before the hooking

point, 4 huge dog tooth tuna appeared along

with smaller ones. i guess they were over 50lbs,

bad ass looking fish. as we arrived at the hooking

point I saw schools of gray reef sharks off the

distance, but as they came closer, it was more

than i expected. among this school of sharks,

i counted 24 small gray reef sharks and i

think their about 4-5 years old. toward the

end of our dive out in the blue before our

safety stop a small school of black fin

barracuda was waiting for us, thank

you fish.

3rd dive at Ulong cliff to Ulong channel

with 15m visibility. This is my favorite spot,

why, cause this is one of the world classic

drift dive. just for your info, you can see

90 species of hard corals inside the channel.

when you hit the right current you can have

the ride of your life time. anyway, along

our dive we got to see the school of

big eye trevally, one spot barracuda,

big eye scad and square tail grouper.

another nice drift dive at Ulong channel

that we finish our dive with total of

55mins dive time, yeah baby.

well,thats all for me now. thank you

again and see you next time.

Tonton signing out. Happy diving.

December 24 2019

FROHE WEIHNACHTEN! It’s Paula!

The above means Merry Christmas in German!
Are you all feeling very christmasy? We sure are!

The weather was not christmasy at all but very
lovely today – sunshine galore!

Air temperature: 31C
Water temperature: 29C

We went out on two boats today.

BM3
Operator: Stacy
Guides: Yu / Hiro
Intro: Paula

① German Channel
② Blue Corner

BM6
Operator: Humio
Guide: Tomi

① Siaes Corner
② Grassland
③ Ulong Channel

At German Channel there were two mantas cleaning! Yay!
And at Blue Corner the current was strong incoming and
super fun.

Tomi’s team had a great dive at Siaes Corner with soo
many dogtooth tunas and a large Spanish mackerel chasing
the fusiliers around!

The visibility at Grassland wasn’t great but all the fish
were congregating for the christmas festivities around the
fragile cardinalfish rock!

At Ulong Channel the current was nice and incoming and
the team drifted through the channel for a relaxed dive!

Here are some pictures from Ngermeaus today!

Merry Christmas everyone!!

December 23 2019

Good evening. It is Hiro.

Palau is still sunny today.

Operator Fumio
Guide Tomi Hiro
① German channel
② New drop off
③ Blue corner

Temperature 32 ° C
Water temperature 29 ° C

I saw two manta rays on the German channel!
It seemed comfortable after cleaning!
I was able to observe it slowly because I saw it on a charter!

The transparency of the new drop-off was good.
Transparency was over 35m.
Pyhmid butterflyfish and blueback fusilier.
It was beautiful!
I met a lot of turtles!

The blue corner was also good transparency.
There were also a lot of Big eyes trevally and gray leaf sharks.
Napoleon also came to play nearby.
The barracuda herd was incredible!

Let’s enjoy tomorrow!

December 22 2019

alii from Palau

how you all doing? hope all is merry.

this is Clayton doing dive blog for 12/22/2019

1st dive at Peleliu Cut with 20m visibility.

a strong incoming current from express

toward the corner pushing most of the

fish to gather at the cut. so as we entered

there was a fish party going on from big eye

trevally, unicorn fish surgeon fish, blue fin

trevally, fusiliers, and many more the list

can go on. it was a fantastic dive for a

first time diver to go Peleliu.

2nd dive we did the cut again all the way

to the corner. this time as we entered the

same point, the current has slow down a bit.

so this time the fish came up on top of the

reef like Christmas decoration. as we started

drifting along the reef towards the corner

more shark showed up more than the first

dive. at the corner the famous school

of the giant trevally was present hanging

at the back current. jack pot!

3rd dive at Peleliu Express with 20m

visibility. entered at the long express with

mild current, but as we get to the middle

of the reef the current seems to speed up.

out of no where a huge feather tail sting ray

came up from the deep that looks like it’s

also enjoying this drift along the reef.

somehow this dive had alot of gray reef

shark. so I started counting, but as I reach

30 count, even more shark appeared that

makes me miss counted the sharks. to bad

we are running out of bottom time that

i could not recount again. I estimate over

50 gray reef sharks. wow!

thank you again and see you next time.

Tonton signing out. Happy diving….

December 21 2019

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

It was sunny today but the wind almost
blew us away.

Air temperature: 30C
Water temperature: 28C

We went out on three boats today.

BM1
Operator: Stacy
Guide: Clayton

① Blue Corner
② Blue Holes
③ New Drop Off

BM2 – Charter
Operator: Konzo
Guide: Yu

① Ulong Cliff
② Grassland

BM6
Operator: Humio
Guides: Tomi / Paula
Intro: Hiro

① Ulong Cliff
② Grassland
③ Siaes Corner

At Ulong Cliff today the visibility was
at about 15 metres. Tomi’s team saw a
baby spotted eagle ray at the mouth of
the channel! There were also soooo many
big eye trevallies and grey reef sharks
at the cliff!

At Grassland we got a mantaaaaaa! We arrived
at the buoy and checked for a manta while
snorkelling – and YAY! Manta!! But we still
had to wait a little bit longer for our surface
interval, fingers crossed that the manta wouldn’t
leave. It didn’t! 🙂 We still got completely
undisturbed cleaning time with the manta doing
loops and somersaults for us! There were also
lots of blackspot barracudas!

At Siaes Corner one team had fun with the little
things in life, like baby flame angelfish and
fire dartfish as well as a super chill hawksbill
turtle that was scratching its tummy on the coral.
So cute! The other team fought its way against the
changed current all the way to the hooking area
outgoing side where there were two bluefin trevallies
and about 10 gold spotted trevallies chasing the
fusiliers around, creating quite the spectacle!!

I wonder what we’ll see tomorrow?

December 20 2019

Alii from Palau

Happy Holidays to all, only

4 more days to Christmas, so be good

for goodness sake.

this Clayton doing dive blog for 12/20/19.

1st dive at Ngemelis Wall with a excellent

visibility, this is the best ever. This dive point

is known for 2 things. 1: the school of black tail

snapper that comes here days before new moon.

so when i say school, they can go over a thousand

of fish. 2: the turtles that hang out on this reef.

so, on a good day you can count over 10 turtles

and that’s what happen today. very nice!

2nd dive at Blue Corner with 25m visibility.

we had a incoming current and a strong one,

too strong! it’s good that it brings all kinds of

fish together but, its a hard dive for divers

with big camera. on this dive we were able

to see couple of spanish mackerel, dog tooth

tuna and yellow fin trevally hunting their

prey. very exciting actions.

3rd dive at New Drop Off with 25m visibility.

a outgoing current. started with a weak current

but after 12mins of dive time the current started

to pick up. hooked in for 10mins watching fish

activity and then drift with the current along

the reef finding the school of one spot barracuda,

blue lined snappers, glow spot sea breams and

big eye sea breams. another fun and nice dive

at new drop off and the bonus was the octopus

that was not shy that it stayed on top of a rock

allowing the divers to taking its picture. Nice!

well folks that it for me, thank you for your

time, Tonton signing out.

Happy Diving…..

December 19 2019

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

Sadly I cannot make today’s weather sound nice.
It was rainy and windy and we got caught up
in some white outs. But the good news is, the
water was warm! 🙂

Air temperature: 26C
Water temperature: 29C

We went out on three boats today.

BM1
Operator: Stacy
Guide: Paula

① Ngemelis Wall
② German Channel
③ Big Drop Off

BM2 – Charter
Operator: Susie
Guide: Yu

① German Channel
② Blue Corner

BM6
Operator: Humio
Guides: Tomi / Hiro

① German Channel
② German Channel
③ Blue Corner
③ Chandelier Cave

At Ngemelis Wall the visibility was at about
20 metres and we had a nice follow current
for most of our dive. We saw a huge dogtooth
tuna and lots of fusiliers being chased around
near the buoy! There were also a lot of grey
reef sharks today and a few white tips! Of
course we also met lots of hawksbill and green
sea turtles!

At German Channel the current was still incoming
when we entered and then stopped. There was a
big school of bigeye scads today and looooots of
blackspot barracudas! We also saw two mantas!
And Tomi’s team saw a super cute cuttlefish!

At Big Drop Off we had some macro fun with gobies!
Candycane dwarf gobies, Randall’s shrimp goby and
whip coral gobies galore! There was also a huuuuuge
lobster! Last but not least of course the anthias
were beautiful – peach anthias, Bartlett’s anthias
and square spot anthias as well as purple queens
and yellow stripe anthias!

More diving tomorroooooooow!

December 17 2019

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

It stayed dry all day today but the
wind is still on the stronger side.

Air temperature: 29C
Water temperature: 29C

We went out on one boat.

BM1
Operator: Susie
Guides: Hiro / Paula

① Ulong Cliff
② Aquarium
③ Siaes Corner

It’s been a long time since we’ve been to
Ulong so we decided today would be the day.
Unfortunately, the visibility was pretty
poor at all the dive sites. At Ulong Cliff
we saw the large school of bigeye trevallies,
blackspot barracudas and lots of cute small
stuff as well.

At Aquarium the visibility was very poor
BUT we still got to enjoy lots of yellowfin
goatfish and twin spot snappers as well as
fire dartfish, arceye hawkfish and black side
hawkfish!

At Siaes Corner we had the whoooooole dive
site to ourselves and caught a super nice
outgoing current – not to fast but just right!
There were soooooooo many sharks at the hooking
area. Also four or five super large bluefin
trevallies were chasing around the fusiliers,
creating a lot of action right in front of us!
To top it off, an enormous dogtooth tuna joined
the hunting fun and passed by super close to us
a couple of times! Best dive of the day, I’d say!

Have a great evening and see you tomorrow!

December 16 2019

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

The weather looked scary in the morning
but after we came up from our first dive
it was all sunny!

Air temperature: 29C
Water temperature: 29C

We went out on two boats today.

BM3
Operator: Susie
Guides: Yu / Paula

① German Channel
② Blue Corner / Blue Hole
③ Hafa Adai Wreck

BM7
Operator: Humio
Guide: Tomi

① Ulong Cliff
② Grassland
③ Siaes Corner

At German Channel the current was still
incoming when we arrived and the visibility
nice. We saw three mantas cleaning at the
Koror side cleaning station and although
the tide started to go out and the visibility
dropped during the dive, we got super close
up manta action!

At Blue Corner the current was suuuuuper weak
incoming and we had all the time in the world
to explore lots of big and small fish! We also
found a super cute nembrotha kurbayana nudi!!!
Soooo adorable!

The Ulong team saw two mantas cleaning at the
cleaning station at Grassland for a total of
thirty minutes!!!

At Siaes Corner the current was very weak
outgoing and they found twelve dogtooth tunas!!!

Let’s hope the weather keeps on improving!!!
See you tomorrow!

December 15 2019

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

The weather was pretty awful today but
it got sunny just in time for lunch and
we enjoyed some nice time on the beach!

Air temperature: 28C
Water temperature: 29C

We went out on three boats today.

BM2 – Snorkelling Charter
Operator: Clayton
Guide: Hiro

BM3
Operator: Susie
Guides: Yu / Paula

① Ngemelis Wall
② Blue Corner

BM7
Operator: Humio
Guide: Tomi

① German Channel
② Blue Corner
③ New Drop Off

Both the early morning team and the snorkelling
charter left early to see some feeding mantas!
Success! Hiro took this picture while skindiving:

At Ngemelis Wall we met lots of friendly turtles
and dartfish! There were also three big bumphead
parrotfish suddenly chasing past us.

At Blue Corner the current was strong outgoing at
first but then mellowed down a little as we reached
the hooking area. There were lots of grey reef
sharks and blackspot barracudas, as well as a huge
dogtooth tuna. The blackfin barracudas were hanging
out in the blue water just by the corner.

Here are some more pictures of the feeding mantas,

thank you Mr. Watanabe!

I hope we get some more Manta action tomorrow,
we’ll let you know!

December 14 2019

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

It was rainy and windy today but that
doesn’t matter when you get to dive in
Palau’s beautiful ocean… 🙂

Air temperature: 27C
Water temperature: 29C

We went out on three boats today.

BM1
Operator: Stacy
Guide: Paula

① German Channel
② Blue Corner

BM2 – Snorkelling Charter
Operator: Clayton
Guide: Hiro

BM6
Operator: Humio
Guides: Tomi / Yu

① Siaes Tunnel
② Siaes Corner
③ Ulong Cliff

At German Channel the current had already
switched to outgoing but we still got some
great Manta action! There were four of them
cleaning at the Koror side cleaning station
and we basically didn’t have to move throughout
the whole dive. When we finally decided to move
back in the direction of the buoys for our safety
stop a little Manta was swimming right at us!

At Blue Corner the current had stopped and we
had the opportunity to explore the whole corner
and go wherever we pleased! We saw a huge school
of bigeye trevallies and lots of Heller’s
barracudas. The Napoleon also came up close today.
Somebody might have been feeding the blue-lined
snappers because they were all over us and tried
to nibble on our fingers… suspicious! I’ve never
seen them that curious.

At Ulong Cliff Tomi’s team spotted a lemon shark!

And Hiro found lots of blue-girdled angelfish while
snorkelling at Ulong Channel!

I hope it’ll be sunny again tomorrow, see you then!

December 13 2019

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

Today also the weather was beautiful but
the wind has picked up slightly. It’s east
wind though, so no problem! 🙂

Air temperature: 31C
Water temperature: 29C

We went out on two boats today.

BM1
Operator: Humio
Guide: Paula

① Blue Holes
② Blue Corner
③ German Channel

BM6
Operator: Susie
Guides: Tomi / Hiro

① Blue Holes / Blue Corner
② Blue Corner
③ German Channel

At Blue Holes we first had some fun spotting
lots of square spot anthias before swimming
through the arch and meeting a HUUUUUUUUUUGE
great barracuda! It was just standing there
motionless, not even remotely bothered by us
coming close and taking pictures. Then again,
if I was that size and had teeth like that,
I probably wouldn’t be intimidated by anything
either… We also spotted a baby regal angelfish
which was super cute and a pretty nudibranch!

At Blue Corner we entered with weak outgoing
current and then, as the current stopped near
the hooking area, made our way across the reef
to the incoming side. The bigeye trevallies were
beauuuutiful today! Since we had the whole corner
to ourselves during that dive, the friendly
Napoleon also stayed close by the whole time!
We ended the dive by drifting towards the blue-
lined snappers, humpback snappers and yellowspot
emperors and then found a large school of blackfin
barracudas in the blue water! Great dive!

Here’s a picture of the blackfin barracudas, courtesy
of Mr Ichikawa. Thank you!

At German Channel the visibility was at about
15 metres and we spotted four manta rays, one of them
swimming super close above our heads, one cleaning
and two of them cruising out in the blue! There
were also lots of grey reef sharks and a very
pretty school of bigeye scads! Lastly one of our
customers had some fun practising how to deploy
the safety float from under water! This picture was
also taken by Mr. Ichikawa.

I wonder what we can see tomorrow?

December 12 2019

Alii from Palau

how you all doing, hope all is fine!

this is Clayton doing dive blog for 12/12/2019.

1st dive at Grass Land with 20m visibility.

nice outgoing current, all the stars were

present except for the manta ray. cool

thing about this dive we saw a baby black

snappers and baby bi color parrot fish.

so this dive was a relaxing dive and

everyone had their own space and freedom.

2nd dive at Siaes Corner with 25m visibility.

this time it was a incoming current, nice and

smooth. just 5mins into the dive a school of

31 big bad ass buffalo fish appeared unexpectedly.

because of the current it brings all the reef fish

all over the reef. but the best part was the 21

units of gray reef sharks hanging just few feet

from the reef edge, which we were hooking on.

this was a wide angle photographer dream.

I say this because i can see them smiling

under the water, Lol..

3rd dive at Ulong Cliff to Ulong Channel

with 20m visibility. so we did 2 dive point

with a single tank and that’s TonTon style.

If you remember last time, i was complaining

about the current, but this time it was

perfect! Thank You Lord!

a long the dive we saw the school of big eye

trevally, fusiliers, surgeon fish and of course

the sexy gray reef sharks. as we entered the

channel I decided to go on the right side and

guess what we saw. the last remaining of the

5 spotted eagle ray. the only question is, how

long that eagle ray gonna stay at Ulong Channel.

thank you again and see you next time.

Tonton signing out. Happy diving….

December 11 2019

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

Lovely weather today with lots of dolphins!

Air temperature: 31C
Water temperature: 29C

We went out on two boats today.

BM6

Operator: Humio
Guides: Tomi / Paula

① German Channel
② New Drop Off
③ Blue Corner

BM7

Operator: Susie
Guide: Yu
AOW: Clayton

① Shark City
② Grassland

Today was another MANTASTIC day!
At German Channel the visibility was only at
about 12 metres but we had the whole dive site
to ourselves and thus lots of space to watch
the mantas clean! There were about four of them
in total with up to two of them cleaning at the
same time!

At Grassland the other team also watched two
mantas who were cleaning the whole time while
the AOW team was doing their underwater navigation
dive!!

At New Drop Off the visibility was nice and the
current was steadily outgoing. We hooked in twice
and saw loooots of grey reef sharks, some of them
definitely pregnant! Hoping for some baby sharks
soon… There were also lots of red-bellied fusiliers,
pyramid butterfly fish, blue-lined snappers and
yellowspot emperors!! After our dive, Tomi spotted
a SILKY SHARK from the surface!!

At Blue Corner the current was outgoing at first but
very suddenly changed to incoming as soon as we reached
the hooking area. We still managed to see lots of
sharks, bigeye trevallies and turtles, though, so another
good dive!!

Also, an update on the turtle mystery:
After going through the pictures and consulting carefully,
we have come to the conclusion that it was A LOGGERHEAD!!
Yay!!!

I wonder what we can see tomorrow??

December 10 2019

alii from Palau

how you all doing, hope all is good.

this is Clayton doing dive blog for 12/10/2019.

1st dive at Grass Land with 15m visibility,

nice outgoing current. Most of the schooling

fish were there but the high light for this

dive was a manta ray that showed up after

20mins of our dive. The reason why i say

the high light because it was first time

for one of my diver to see a manta ray.

she just got her open water and today

we were doing the advance open water.

2nd dive at Siaes Corner with 20m

visibility. nice incoming current, lots

of schooling fusiliers, black snappers, red

snappers and plus 10 gray reef sharks.

i almost forgot about the 2 hawk’s bill

turtle. end our dive in the blue, hoping

for the school of the black fin barracuda

but no luck, maybe next time.

3rd dive at Ulong Channel with 15m

visibility and a weak incoming current.

It’s getting weird this current, why? I

don’t know. It’s 2 days before full moon

so the current should be strong at the

channel. But any way it was not that bad.

we saw the school of big eye trevally in

huge number and they were doing the tornado

formation, nice! not only that, in front of the

channel entrance we also saw the big school

of the red bass or the red snapper. and just

for your information it’s the spawning time

for this fish. we continue our dive into

the channel again with a very weak current.

but we were able to reach and pass the

giant cabbage coral and end our dive

with 50mins dive time.

once again than you for your time, every

time and all the time, see you next time.

TonTon signing out. Happy diving…..

December 9 2019

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

Our prayers have been heard, the weather
was awesome again!

Air temperature: 31C
Water temperature: 29C

We went out on two boats today.

BM3

Operator: Stacy
Guide: Yu
Intro: Rusher
OWC: Clayton

① Blue Corner
② New Drop Off
③ German Channel

BM6
Operator: Susie
Guides: Hiro / Paula

① Ngemelis Wall

② Blue Corner
③ German Channel

At Ngemelis Wall we met soooo many
turtles! At least 10 or 20! One of them, –
we’re still trying to find out if it was a
genormous hawksbill turtle or maybe even
a LOGGERHEAD – tried to take a munch out of
our customer’s wide angle lense! It seemed
very hungry! We’ll check the pictures and let
you know what it was tomorrow! We also found
two scrawled filefish and lots of cute anemonefish!

At Blue Corner the current stopped and
we entered from the incoming side. We
found the school of bigeye trevallies on
the drop off and took some pictures. Then
we made our way across the reef towards the
garden eels and then back towards the corner –
when there’s no current, any route is possible!
We also spotted the friendly Napoleon and
the schools of humpback snappers, blue-lined
snappers and yellowspot emperors. Very
easygoing dive!

At German Channel Yu’s team went to look for
the feeding mantas whilst our team had some
fun with the cleaning mantas. Yu found eight
mantas feeding, full on success!
We stayed at the Koror side cleaning station
where about four mantas were cleaning and
swimming around, including a very small one
which was probably still a teenager. To top
it off we got to see a dogtooth tuna, a Spanish
mackerel, tons of baby grey reef sharks and schools
of bigeye scads and reef trevallies!

Today was awesome, see you tomorrow!!

December 8 2019

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

The weather was very indecisive today…
First rain, then sun, then heavy rain.

Air temperature: 28C
Water temperature: 29C

We went out on two boats.

BM6
Operator: Susie
Guides: Tomi / Paula

① Grassland
② Siaes Corner
③ Ulong Cliff

BM7
Operator: Stacy
Guide: Yu

① Shark City
② Siaes Corner
③ Ulong Cliff

At Shark City there were soooooo many red
snappers today! Meanwhile in Grassland we
saw lots of blackspot barracudas and tiny
little baby black snappers!

At Siaes Corner we were treated to a show
of bigeye scads being chased around by
four large bluefin trevallies! It was great!
We also saw lots of sharks and a little
baby flame angelfish.

At Ulong Cliff it was all about the big eye
trevallies! They were circling sooooooooooo
beautifully! At one point we basically got
caught in the middle of them and they were
circling all around us!
Yu also found a small spotted eagle ray and
Tomi swears he saw a manta coming out of the
channel while waiting for the boat!

I hope it’ll be sunny again tomorrow…
See you then!

December 7 2019

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

What a beautiful day today! Crystal clear
waters, sunny skies and dolphins!

Air temperature: 31C
Water temperature: 29C

We went out on two boats today.

BM6
Operator: Humio
Guides: Tomi / Paula with Mizuho

① Blue Holes
② German Channel
③ Blue Corner

BM7
Operator: Stacy
Guide: Yu

① Peleliu Cut
② Peleliu Express
③ Peleliu Cut – Corner

Today was THE BEST DAY! At Blue Holes the
visibility was super nice and due to the sunny
weather the cave was lit up beautifully by
sparkly sun rays! The cute electric flame scallop
also performed for us!

The highlight of the day was our dive at German
Channel! We timed our entry so that no other
teams were in the water and omg WHAT A DIVE!
The visibility was super nice at about 20 metres
and the incoming current was quite weak but that
enabled us to comfortably hang out at the Koror
side cleaning station and watch THREE MANTAS CLEANING
FOR 50 MINUTES! They were not at all bothered by
us and just kept turning and turning and coming so
close to us I could swear their bellies were touching
the tips of our hair! There were two super large
ones and a tiny one, probably still young.
The. Best. Dive. Ever. I have no other words.

Check this out:

Thank you Ms Morita!!!!

At Blue Corner we entered with a weak incoming curent
which changed to an outgoing current after about three
minutes. We slowly made our way to the hooking area on
the outgoing side and watched lots of bigeye trevallies
on the way there. We also had some up and close action
with the Napoleon! Having the whole Blue Corner to
ourselves he must have realised there wasn’t anyone else
to hang out with. We also found the blackfin barracudas
as well as a school of blackspot barracudas and looooots
of cute turtles! Great dive!

In Peleliu our divers encountered a large school of
great trevallies and Stacy swears he saw a shark as large
as 4 metres from the boat. As to what kind of shark –
we don’t know. He was super excited though!

Have a great evening and see you tomorrow!!

December 6 2019

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

The weather was super nice today and
the ocean calm and shiny like a mirror!

Air temperature: 31C
Water temperature: 29C

We went out on two boats today.

BM3
Operator: Humio
Guides: Hiro / Paula

① Ulong Cliff
② Siaes Corner
③ Aquarium

BM7
Operator: Stacy
Guide: Tomi with Mizuho

① Grassland
② Siaes Corner

At Ulong Cliff we got treated to quite the
show as lots of bigeye scads were being chased
around the cliff by a leatherback and it looked
like some grey reef sharks were joining in the
fun! We also saw lots of bigeye trevallies just
next to the mouth of the channel!

At Grassland a large manta passed by our group
as they were checking out some fragile cardinalfish!

At Siaes Corner we observed lots of sharks circling
around the hooking area on the incoming side. After
being drifted out into the blue Hiro also spotted
a school of blackfin barracudas!

At Aquarium we entered with the reef on our right
side and thanks to the current there were lots of
sharks as well! We also saw a large school of
blackspot barracudas and a baby Shepard’s angelfish!
Also loooooots of twinspot barracudas and yellowfin
goatfish!

I hope the weather is the same tomorrow!

December 5 2019

Alii from Palau Island.

how you all doing? hope all is good!

this is Clayton doing dive blog for 12/5/2019.

1t dive at German Channel with 7 to 15m

visibility. why is that? its a day after half

moon so the current is unpredictable.

so just 6mins to our dive a huge manta

ray showed up glyding smoothly passing

us. as it disappeared out into the the blue,

we continue our dive and we meet another

one hovering on the cleaning station. after

few minutes the manta went away. as we

about to leave it showed up again behind

us. thank you Mr. Manta.

2nd dive at Blue Corner with 20m

visibility. nice outgoing current that

brings a lot of schooling reef fish along

the reef as we drift toward the hooking

point. just for your information this

dive was not relaxing cause of the big

wave that create a bit strong surge

under water. on the hooking point lots

of gray reef sharks were hanging out too.

after few minutes i decided to unhook

because of the surge, it was not that

fun anymore. drift with the current out

into the blue and found a small school

of barracuda, when i say small, its

only 20 of them in the class.　Lol..。

　 3rd dive again at Blue Corner

with the same visibility and outgoing

current, and don’t forget about the

surge. after 20mins of our dive i

notice the current is changing, so

i quickly start my way to the other

side of the reef, just to catch the

incoming current before it picks

up too strong. along the way

we meet the school of big eye

trevally, some turtles, black snappers

and the friendly napoleon wrasse.

as i reach the other side of the reef

one of my diver has gone low on air.

just good timing for us to end our dive

by drifting with the current out into

the blue to find the same small

school of barracuda, how nice.

thats all for me now and thank you

for your time and see you next time.

happy holidays and happy diving.

TonTon signing out.

December 4 2019

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

The weather was grim today… it started
grey in the morning and ended grey too.
We got rained on. But under water it was
nice and snug and warm!

Air temperature: 28C
Water temperature: 29C

We went out on two boats.

BM6
Operator: Stacy
Guides: Yu / Hiro

① Ulong Cliff
② Grassland
③ Siaes Corner

BM7
Operator: Humio
Guide: Paula with Mizuho

① Ulong Cliff
② Aquarium

All teams started the day with a dive at
Ulong Cliff! There were lots of beautiful
fusiliers at the mouth of the channel being
chased by gold spotted and bluefin trevallies!
They created the most gorgeous blue shiny
river all around us! There were also a lot of
bigeye scads being chased around as well as
four grey reef sharks always circling in the
corner on the right side of the mouth of
the channel. We also found the large school
of bigeye trevallies and took loooooots of
pictures!

At Grassland there were lots of blackspot
barracudas as well as sawtooth barracudas!

We also found a big school of bigeye scads!

At Aquarium the current was nice and we approached
with the reef on our left! There were lots of
baby sharks and black snappers! The star of
the dive was a huuuuuuuuuuuuge school of
circular batfish! One of our customers said she
counted at least 300! We also got treated to another
beautiful fusiliers-being-chased-by-trevallies show!
On top of the reef we found lots of yellowfin goatfish
and soooooooo many twinspot snappers! They were basically
covering the whole reef! One of our customers also spotted
an adorable little white nudibranch! Perfect dive!!

At Siaes Corner the current was very weak outgoing but
there were lots of baby sharks at the hooking area!

I hope it’s gonna be sunny tomorrow, now time for a hot
chocolate!

December 3 2019

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

We had really nice weather today and
the wind has settled down too!

Air temperature: 31C
Water temperature: 29C

We went out on two boats.

BM1
Operator: Humio
Guide: Paula

① Blue Corner
② Blue Corner

BM7
Operator: Susie
Guide: Yu with Mizuho

① German Channel
② Blue Corner
③ Blue Holes

German Channnel was experiencing a slow but steady
incoming current and so Yu’s team went looking
for mantas! The search was worth it because they
were rewarded with three mantas! They were cleaning
at the Koror side cleaning station! Great start to
the day!

At the same time, my team had Blue Corner all to
ourselves for the first dive! No other team in the
water! Bliss!!! We entered with a very very weak
incoming current from buoy no. 2 but the current
changed to very weak outgoing just when we reached
the blue-lined snappers! To be honest, though, the
swell was more tiring than the current. We saw lots
of bigeye trevallies and a huge school of blackspot
barracudas next to the reef out in the blue! Sooo
many! The napoleon was super friendly seeing as there
was nobody else to hang out with and kept coming
back for more attention and pictures! We finished
our near perfect dive off with a school of blackfin
barracudas in the blue! Yayy!!!

At the time of the second dive the current had picked
up and was now steadily outgoing. There were sooooo
many sharks circling in front of the hooking area,
but unfortunately also a lot of divers. Hardly any
space to hook! 😀 The current was super fun though
and after unhooking we also watched the garden eels
for a while and spotted a super cute green sea turtle.
The current got stronger during the dive and the school
of blackfin barracudas seemed to escape on top of the
reef so we got to seee them before we headed out to the
blue. Also a super fun dive! The visibility was beautiful
both times today, almost 30 metres!!

I hope the wind stays this calm…. fingers crossed!
See you tomorrow!

December 2 2019

Alii! This is Mizuho from Palau.

Today,s weather is all day sunny!!

Air temperature:30C
Water temperature:29C

We went out on one boat today.

BM7

Operator: FUMIO
Guide:YU / CRAYTON with MIZUHO

①Ulong Clif
②Glass Land
③Siaes Corner

The first divesite was Ulong Clif
with 17m visibility.

There was confortable outgoing current
for driftdiving.

We got to see the huge school of
big eye trevallies on the cliff!!

There are many kind of basslets
on the reef edge.
It was very beautiful!!

The second divesite was Glass Land
with 15m visibility.
Current was weak outgoing current.

We saw Spotted Garden eel
on the sand area.

And we observed Red bellied fusilier and
many kind of butterflyfish !!

The third divesite was Siaes corner
with 20m visibility.

There was nice outgoing current
for fooking.
so we could saw many kind of fish school
foe example …
Gray reef shark,Blackspot barracuda,Black snapper
and so on!!

One of Guest could find out Guineafowl Puffer.
Thank you so much!!

Thank you for taking time to read all of this blog!!
Good luck!!!

Mizuho

December 1 2019

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

It was still windy today but much better
than the last few days! Tomorrow might
even be smooth, who knows?

Air temperature: 31C
Water temperature: 29C (but 26C at Grassland lol)

We went out on two boats today.

BM6
Operator: Stacy
Guides: Clayton / Paula

① Grassland
② Butterfly Park

BM7
Operator: Susie
Guide: Yu

① Ngemelis Coral Garden
② New Drop Off
③ Blue Corner

Manta Manta Mantaaaaaaaaaa!! That’s right, again
we got a Manta at Grassland! It seems manta season
is in full swing again! The visibility was a little
poor but as we approached the cleaning station we
saw a huge black shadow hovering over it and immediately
made our way to the sandy bottom to catch some good
seats to the show! Today it wasn’t a black manta but
a huuuuuuge “normal” one. It kept doing its loops around
the cleaning station completely unfazed by the divers
watching and when we left after 10 minutes of manta
admiration due to our NDLs getting shorter and our
body temperatures lower (crazy thermocline at 26 degrees brrrr),
the manta was still not done cleaning!

At our original point Butterfly Park the visibility
was super nice and the sun shone beautifully on the
table corals! We found a lot of yellowfin goatfish,
and lots of baby black snappers! Speaking of babies, there
was also a school of juvenile yellowspot emperors huddled
together around a table coral and of course lots of baby
butterfly fish! We also spotted many redeye gobies today
as well as a group of longnose filefish! Because of all the
small, colourful fish and all the baby fish Mr Naito suggested
we re-name the dive site “Toy Box”. What do you think?

Yu’s team ventured out to Blue Corner and was treated to
a spectacular current change! The current switched from quite
strong outgoing to strong incoming! All the fish fled onto
the sandy area and then towards the incoming side of the reef!
“Like a river”, as Yu said! 🙂

Let’s hope the wind continues to slow down! Enjoy your evening!
I hope we’ll have a beautiful sunset today as well!