Living Colours Diving Resort | Bunaken | North-Sulawesi

Living Colours Dive Resort is run by Finnish PADI Instructors
Mia and Jaakko.
Ambassador of the marine environment and pioneer of uw photography, Ernie Brooks, enjoying the living colours of Bunaken Marine Park.
  

Diving and Snorkelling

World-class diving close by: Bunaken National Marine Park and Manado Bay has more than 40 world-class dive sites to choose from. We are located on the east side of Bunaken island, in front of one of the best dive sites in the area. Even the further dive sites in the marine park are only about 30 minutes boat-ride away.

Relaxed wall and drift diving: Diving in Bunaken is mostly wall diving and drift diving, we can just follow the current and the boat will pick us up after the dive. Your dives will be led by experienced dive guides who are familiar with the local conditions and marine life, and more importantly, who respect them.
Long dives: We always dive well within the recreational dive limits, but still put no time limits on your dives. You can do a long safety stop looking around in the shallows, which offer an amazingly rich marine life - a perfect way to end your dive!

Full service: Let our always smiling divemasters, boat captains and crew take care of you and your dive gear. Your equipment is set up, rinsed and stored for you, so that you can fully enjoy your holiday.

High quality dive equipment: We choose to dive with Suunto Equilite 1000 BCDs, Apeks AT-20 regulators equipped with Suunto pressure and depth gauges, Aqua Lung wetsuits and Technisub and Mares masks and fins. Certified Apeks regulator and Bauer compressor technician assures well maintained dive equipment and safe, clean air fills on every dive. We follow BS5430 standard in scuba tank maintenance.

Our spacious, traditional, wooden dive boats are equipped with two engines, DAN oxygen unit, first aid kit, mobile phone and radio. The nearest operational recompression chamber is in Manado.

Services

• Fun dives in small groups; guided by experienced, english speaking dive guides (max 4 divers/guide)
• Night and dawn dives
• PADI dive courses from beginner to professional level
• Introductory dives for non-divers
• European instructors
• Special diving and snorkelling trips
• Diving and snorkelling equipment rental
• Uw camera rental

Uw photography

Bunaken has long been considered an underwater photographers’ paradise. The vertical walls, steep slopes and colourful reef flats of Bunaken National Marine Park as well as the muck-diving sites in Manado Bay offer myriad opportunities for both macro and wide-angle photography. Located right in the epicentre of underwater biodiversity, and being swept by nutrient rich oceanic currents ensures the unbelievable variety of marine life and animal species living in the area.

For uw photographers Living Colours Dive Resort has to offer:

• Fully equipped photographic-equipment care tables, with air guns, lens pens and tools
• Room for camera and uw housing storage
• Camera tables and rinse tanks in our dive boats
• E6 processing in Manado
Especially for digital cameras:

• Memory card reader
• Photoshop CS 2 and Raw File Converter for editing the photos
• Computer equipped with a Cd burner and internet connection.
• 24 h electricity for recharging batteries

And last, but not least, experienced Divemasters to show you the best photo subjects.