SSI ITC Dive Resort Oceans 5 Gili Air Blog Posts
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 …
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 …
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 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 …
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 …
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. …
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. …
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 …
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 …
Responsible Divers Nine Indonesian university students have begun their Conservation Internship at Oceans 5 Gili Air. Over the coming months, they will collect underwater data inside the Gili Matra Marine Protected Area and gain practical experience that can help prepare them for careers in marine …