Our instructor Suef recently reached a new milestone. He is a SSI Platinum 1000 Instructor now. In this way an experienced instructor is recognized for teaching many students. Congratulations, Suef!
These guys spent 2 weeks here in Medhufushi and they had few things and clear to do: free diving and scuba diving! It was an enormous pleasure to have Helmut and Eugenia, together with their kids Belen and Ruben. Lovely family, fun to dive with [...]
You’ll never know what you’re going to see during a dive! On a sunny afternoon of June, three giant guitarfishes, an endangered species, surprised us by swimming up on Kuda Tila reef. What a nice show to watch these 3-meter-long shark-like fishes passing by! Thank [...]
An animal which can often be found underwater around Bali is the pink squat lobster. It lives in the crevices of the large barrel sponge. It is very small and relatively shy though. It belongs to the family of squat lobsters and has 3 (instead [...]
The expression commonly used:“ boys with toys” cannot be more true this time. One of our guests had a drone with him for his vacations and was a good idea to use it also from the diving dhoni. It seems sure fun to use it [...]
As much as possible we love to organize special trips for you; can be 2 tank trip or full day trip, it depends what is best. The best locations for today are Sharks Tongue and Mantas and More, we´ll see what is coming next or [...]
On our last dive we were surprised from 50 mobulas ! We just joined 15 gray reef sharks on a cleaning station when these amazing animals floated over our heads.
Dolir (Ketut Sukiarta) grew up with seven brothers and sisters, which explains why he had to start work immediately after school and thus he was glad to start working with us in 2015. Coming from such a large family, one has to make sure to [...]
Nemo everybody knows, but there are many, many different kinds of clownfish, every one living in his own, specific anemone. The colors and patterns are variable, but hardworking they all are: they defend their anemone, in which they grew up, with their lives. Sometimes the [...]
i.a.c instructor trainer Thomas Kromp just finished his second instructor course here at the oasis. Everbody enjoyed the course. There was as well time for a fun dive at elphinstone with hammerheads and oceanics. If you are interested to become a dive instructor please contact [...]
You might know it already, but we are happy to inform you that since a week Medhufushi dive centre is also on Facebook. We like to post and update the page almost every day, with little videos or else, just keep you company for few [...]
After our 3 month holiday we finally arrived back to Bathala and look forward to an exciting season. We hope to see all of you again and welcome all new guests and friends here on Bathala. Best regards Kathi & Florian
After nine months of Island Life Fabien went back to Switzerland. The whole Bathala Team says thanks for the great time with you under and above the water. We wish you all the best for the future and hope to see you again someday. Greetings [...]
Laura is known by a lot of guests from Oasis. She spent a few holidays here and suported us excellent for one season as a Divemaster. This drawings are from her book "Shift change - life on the reef by day and night". Lauras bachelor [...]