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.

View Larger Map

Diving Blog

May 10 2020

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

WE WENT DIVING TODAY! To Ulong!
Omg it’s been FOREVER!
Weather was terrible though…

Air temperature: 27C and rain rain rain
Water temperature: pleasant 29C

BM7
Operator: Clayton
Guides: Hiro and Paula

① Grassland
② Siaes Corner

Grassland greeted us with amazing visibility
of almost 20 metres! The current was outgoing
and we just comfortably drifted along with the
reef on our right. There were lots and lots of
goggle eyes and there seemed to be even more
fragile cardinalfish than usual. We also saw
lots of blackspot barracudas and soooo many
fusiliers. The highlight was a school of steephead
parrotfish being hunted by three grey reef
sharks!

The swell at Siaes Corner was too big to get
the mooring line so we proficiently performed
a free entry and descent! Everyone did great!
The visibility was a big murky at first but
when we made it to the corner it cleared up for
a beautiful parade of grey reef sharks. Sooo many!
The current was just right, weak outgoing so we
got treated to action at the hooking area but at
the same time didn’t have to worry about being swept
away. We also met a super cute hawksbill turtle that
posed patiently for some selfies as well as lots of
bumphead parrotfish on top of the shallow reef.

It was soooooo nice to be back in the water!

Stay healthy!

May 9 2020

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

Palau still has zero suspected or confirmed cases
of COVID-19! I think that’s worth a big “yayyyy”! 🙂

We’ve been getting lots of rain which is great for
the plants of course but it’s also been resulting
in a looooot of power outages. Like, a lot. More than
usual. On the other hand, this way we get used to it…

Today we had an AOW student and Tonton taught the
UW Navigation and UW Naturalist dives. He took advantage
of the fact that there is basically zero boat traffic
in front of our pier and this way we kind of have a “house
reef” I guess… He said he spotted a school of very tiny
bluefin trevallies. I think they were still hunting about
a minute ago because there was a lot of splashing in the
water. His student saw a suuuuuuuper long jellyfish!

In the meantime, the rest of us cleaned the boats which is
basically a sisyphos task at this point but we’re getting
rather good at it.

Tomorrow we’re heading out of the bay for some diving!
Ulong or Ngemelis, who knows? I can’t wait for sure! 🙂

Stay healthy everybody!

May 02 2020

Alii from the Island of Palau

how you all doing?I hope that things

are not that bad where ever you are.

i also hope that all are safe and sound.

this is Clayton doing dive blog for 05/02/20.

i’m not sure when was the last time i wrote

a dive blog, its been a while.

1st dive at German Channel with 25m

visibility, nice. slow incoming current and

it was perfect for some of our diver. we didnt

see the manta ray but it was a good dive. lots

of schooling fish. for this dive i have two high

lights to share. 1. over 40 schooling of baby

gray reef sharks, nice. 2. a rare angel fish

called the blue grilled or also known as

blue face angel fish.

2nd dive at blue hole with 25m visibility.

as we were preparing to enter, we had

a cloud above us, so i thought its going

to ruin the dive. but as we entered slowly

the cloud moves away, by the time we enter

blue hole, we got good sun rays coming in.

spend 18mins in the hole and then exit and

made my way toward blue corner. again weak

current on this dive making it another relaxing

dive, nice. the high light for this dive was a

octopus that was hang pretending to be a

spiderman, lol.

3rd dive at Blue Corner with 25m visibility.

again, weak incoming current, just perfect

for our divers. all the stars of blue corner

were present. some how all the fish kinda

came checking us out, maybe because they

miss divers. you know, just suddenly no

divers going to blue corner cause of covit19.

just to wrap today’s dive. for the first time

in a long time, you dont get to see octopus

on your every dive, so in total, we saw

4 octopus, priceless.

once again thank you for you time and

hopefully get to see you soon. stay safe.

Tonton signing out. happy diving.

April 26 2020

Hi everuone! It’s Shohei:)
Today it was a pretty nice weather so I got sunburned a lot!

Air temperature: 29C

Water temperature: 29C

Boat: BM3
Operator: Stacy

Fun Diving
Guide: Tomi

①German Channel
②Blue Corner

At the German Channel, the current was strong out going.

The fun diving team met a giant school of goggle eye fish.
And then they enjoy an exclusive dive at Blue Corner.
They saw Napoleons, a school of bigeye travallies and blackfin barracudas!

Rescue Diver Course＠Ngermeaus island
Guide: Hiro
Assistant: Shohei
I played a person who got accident and I was rescued again and again!
The student rescued me very well, and he finished the course!
Congratulations!

Advanced Open Water Course＠Ngermeaus island
Guide: Clayton, Paula
Two local divers finished the course and became the AOW diver!
Congratulations!

I heard that a lot of fish came back to diving spots
because there are no divers these days.
I’ve not able to dive at the offshore for weeks so I want to dive there too!

Have a good evening:)

April 18 2020

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

We went diving today!!

The weather was nice until it
started raining.

Air temperature: 29C
Water temperature: 29C

One boat only, for obvious reasons.

Operator: Stacy
Guide: Paula
AOW: Tonton
OWD: Shohei / Hiro

① New Drop Off
② Blue Corner
③ German Channel

We had awesome visibility and all
exclusive dive sites on all dives
today! Needless to say, it was great!

At New Drop Off the current was really
strong so we entered even before the first
mooring buoy and drifted comfortably along
the wall before hooking. We tried to find
the Helfrich’s dartfish but didn’t manage to
outswim the insane up-current. No kidding.
There were lots of sharks and a beautiful
school of whitetongue jacks as well as
giant trevallies and blackspot barracudas.

Blue Corner was the beeeeeeeeeeeeeeest!
So. Many. Barracudas. You spot one school
of blackfin barracudas and get excited and
then when you move on there’s another one
coming. Seriously, where have they been
hiding? At one point we were basically
wrapped up in whitetongue jacks, blackspot
barracudas and blackfin barracudas at the same
time. Amazing. Also, sooooo many sharks!
And the friendly Napoleon must have been very
lonely because it kept following us basically
the whole time from the hooking area to the
safety stop. Poor thing!

German Channel didn’t treat us to a manta
today but soooo many goggle eyes and blackspot
barracudas and whitetongue jacks! Day of the
whitetongue jacks it seems. Also lots of
sharks, cleaning at the station. Shark dance!

The reef seems to be loving this break it gets
from all the usual commotion. Let’s hope it
will keep recovering and recovering and busting
out many more surprises in the weeks ahead!

Time for Tsukare Naos! 😀
Have a lovely evening!!

April 11 2020

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

WE WENT DIVING TODAY!!!
I cannot and shall not contain my excitement.

The weather is still obscenely nice.

Air temperature: 32C
Water temperature: 29C (!)

BM7
Operator: Clayton
Guide: Paula

① Hafa Adai
② St Cardinal

Hafa Adai was an epic battleground today.
Two schools of fusiliers vs seven, very mean
looking bluefin trevallies. There was a school
of dark-banded fusiliers and a school of
red-bellied fusiliers and apparently they seemed
to be fighting their own battles. I would have
suggested they unite forces but they didn’t.
Anyways, it was a great show of hide and seek
and chasing and fish balls all around us!
As we made our way around the wreck we spotted
lots of baby yellowback fusiliers. It also seemed
to be the day of the pufferfish because there was
a large map puffer just hanging out, not at all
disturbed by us, as well as a star puffer standing
in the current (yes there was a current) with two
baby golden trevallies playing around its mouth.
We also found two cool nudibranches and lots of gobies.
No wonder we dove for a whole hour!

Speaking of gobies… St Cardinal delivered!
We took our time making our way across and above the
hard corals covered in cardinalfish! At first we
observed the banded shrimp gobies for a looooong time
before spotting many little signalfin gobies, speckleback
shrimp gobies and, to top it off, four signal gobies!!
They’re so cute how they seem to be hovering just above
the sand with their little fins looking like feet, I cannot
even process the cuteness. We also fought off vicious attacks
from territorial white damselfish and made friends with a
juvenile oval butterfly fish and many sapphire wrasses!

It was sooooooooooooo good to be back in the water! Let’s
hope for more diving soon!
Stay healthy everybody!

April 5 2020

Otsukarechan! It’s Paula!

I guess you’re all missing our daily blog?
Or have you already given up checking? Hello?
Is anybody reading this?

If yes, let me give you an update! The weather
has been almost obscenely great. Ironic given the
state of the world. But hey, let’s not complain
about sunshine and 32 degrees air temperature.

Palau has basically zero tourists at the moment
so it probably doesn’t come as a surprise that
we haven’t had any customers. We’ve been keeping
busy catching up on admin, cleaning, tidying up
and gear maintenance…. aaaaaaaaand FUN DIVING!
Because what else do you do when you’re trapped
on an island in the Pacific with world class diving
and access to boats and people who can drive boats?

Guys, I’ve NEVER seen sooooooooooo many blackfin
barracudas at Blue Corner! They might actually be
enjoying this time off from all the divers. There
was also a big school of Moorish Idols. It was
amazing. Also macro. I love macro!
Here are some pictures. Don’t complain, though,
I never said I was good at photography. If you think

that some are better than others, it’s probably because

Hiro took them.

Big eye trevalliiiiiiiiiiies!

Blackfin barracuda party!

A pygmy seahorse!!!

An elegant moray eel!

Helfrich’s dartfish!

Decorated dartfish!

Let’s hope that this time without divers at least
has a positive effect on the reef and gives it some
time to recover!

Back to admin work it is… stay healthy everybody!

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!

Location

Climate

Shark Sanctuary

UNESCO World Heritage

Diving in Palau

Major Dive Sites

Blue Corner

Blue Hole

German Channel

Grassland (Blue Marlin Original Dive Site)

New Drop Off

Ulong Channel

The Iro (Wreck)

Blue Marlin Original Dive Sites

Diving Blog

May 10 2020

May 9 2020

May 02 2020

April 26 2020

April 18 2020

April 11 2020

April 5 2020

March 29 2020

March 28 2020

March 27 2020

March 26 2020

March 25 2020

March 24 2020

March 23 2020

March 22 2020

March 21 2020

March 20 2020

March 19 2020

March 18 2020

March 17 2020

March 16 2020

March 15 2020

March 14 2020

March 13 2020

March 11 2020

March 10 2020

March 9 2020

March 8 2020

March 7 2020

March 6 2020

March 5 2020

March 4 2020

March 3 2020

March 2 2020

March 1 2020

February 29 2020

February 28 2020

February 27 2020

February 26 2020

February 25 2020

February 24 2020

February 23 2020

February 22 2020

February 21 2020

February 20 2020

February 19 2020

February 18 2020

February 17 2020

February 16 2020

February 15 2020

February 14 2020

February 13 2020

February 12 2020

February 11 2020

February 10 2020

February 09 2020

February 08 2020

February 07 2020

February 06 2020

February 05 2020

February 04 2020

February 03 2020

February 02 2020

February 01 2020

Useful Links