Gili Air vs Gili Trawangan: Which Island Is Better for Scuba Diving?

Gili Air vs Gili Trawangan: Which Island Is Better for Scuba Diving?

Gili Air vs Gili Trawangan: Which Island Is Better for Scuba Diving? Planning a scuba diving holiday in the Gili Islands? Both Gili Air and Gili Trawangan offer excellent access to the underwater world around the Gilis and Lombok. However, the islands have different atmospheres, …

Why Reef Conservation on the Gili Islands Must Start on Land

Why Reef Conservation on the Gili Islands Must Start on Land

Before we repair a reef, we need to ask why it was damaged At Oceans 5 Gili Air, we believe conservation must address the pressures damaging our marine environment, as well as the damage we can already see. Planting coral, creating artificial reefs and restoring …

Why Your First Scuba Diving Experience Should Start in a Training Pool

Why Your First Scuba Diving Experience Should Start in a Training Pool

A Comfortable Beginning for Your Underwater Adventure Your first breath underwater is a moment to remember. It can also feel unfamiliar: you are wearing new equipment, breathing through a regulator and discovering how to move beneath the surface. Starting in a training pool gives you …

What Recreational Divers Can Learn from Technical Diving

What Recreational Divers Can Learn from Technical Diving

Technical diving often brings to mind multiple cylinders, deeper dives and detailed decompression plans. But some of its most useful lessons apply just as well to a recreational dive along a shallow reef. You do not need to become a technical diver to improve your …

Gili Trawangan Moves Towards Separate Village Status from Gili Indah

Gili Trawangan Moves Towards Separate Village Status from Gili Indah

Gili Trawangan Takes a Step Towards Becoming Its Own Village Gili Trawangan has reached an important stage in its move towards becoming a separate administrative village. However, its current status is Desa Persiapan Gili Trawangan—a preparatory village—rather than a fully established independent village. What Has …

Just Certified? How to Build Confidence After Your Open Water Course

Just Certified? How to Build Confidence After Your Open Water Course

What can you do after your Open Water Course? Completing your Open Water Diver course is a moment worth celebrating. You have learned how to use scuba equipment, practised essential skills and explored the underwater world with your instructor. But what happens next? For many …

One Oceans 5, Five Websites: Find the Information You Need

One Oceans 5, Five Websites: Find the Information You Need

Oceans 5 Gili Air offers more than dive trips and beginner courses. Our work now includes Divemaster internships, instructor training, technical diving and marine conservation. We have developed dedicated websites for these areas so you can find detailed information about the program that interests you. …

Scuba Diving Gili Air: From Your First Dive to Dive Professional

Scuba Diving Gili Air: From Your First Dive to Dive Professional

How Far Can Scuba Diving Take You? For many people, scuba diving begins with one simple idea: I want to see what is underwater. Maybe it starts with an introduction dive while travelling through Indonesia. Maybe it is an Open Water Diver course on Gili Air. …

Marine Conservation in the Gili Islands

Marine Conservation in the Gili Islands

A Guide for Responsible Divers The Gili Islands are famous for scuba diving. Every year, divers travel to Gili Air, Gili Meno and Gili Trawangan to explore warm tropical waters, coral reefs, walls, wrecks and dive sites where encounters with sea turtles are part of …

Scuba Diving on Gili Air

Scuba Diving on Gili Air

What to Expect on a Typical Dive Day Scuba diving on Gili Air does not have to mean spending the entire day on a crowded boat. At Oceans 5 Gili Air, each dive is a separate trip. Our boats leave three times a day, and …