In the quest for algae, I got the chance to dive at some really special places off Singapore. I’m really amazed at how beautiful our reefs are despite the heavy development that occurs around all our coasts and islands. If the reef are willing to work hard to survive, we should also do our best […]

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A female reef cuttlefish lays and then deposits her egg in a coral head along the reef crest at Semakau Island, Singapore.

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Algae hunting in the southern islands took to a great start this morning. As soon as our boat pulled up along the west-side of Jong Island, we spotted two Great-billed herons walking along the water’s edge, poking about for food. Though they are the tallest birds you’re likely to encounter in Singapore, they are very […]

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Who cares about algae? Jeffrey Low does! And you should too! Algae provides food and shelter to many creatures on the reef. A famous and favorite amongst them is the Sargassum frogfish. Sargassum is a kind of marcoalgae, or seaweed. Some species of sargassum spend their entire lives drifting in the open ocean, never attaching […]

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Hantu Blog volunteer and underwater photographer Jimmy Goh, who recently had his pictures published in the book Habitat’s in Harmony, gives us a close-up perspective of Pulau Hantu’s macro fauna, beginning with the beautiful sea slug above.

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With Saturday spent at Singapore’s first Biodiversity Festival at the Botanical Gardens, Hantu Blog volunteers spent Sunday doing what they do best – finding more stuff out on the reef, so we can tell everyone else about it! And boy did they make some findings! The day began even before the divers went underwater, with […]

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After two whole days of talking, seeing and showing the diverse kinds of plants and animals of the land or marine kind at the Botanical Gardens for the Singapore’s first ever Biodiversity Festival, the answer to the question “Singapore got wildlife meh?” has definitely got to be a resounding, “ABUDEN!?” (abuden is derived from the […]

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Reticulated pufferfish Photo: Khoo Min Hui What better way to beat the April heat than to spend it underwater at Pulau Hantu? A handful of divers today braved the 31degC temperatures, plunging into the waters with huge sigh of relief before descending into appreciably clear waters of Pulau Hantu’s reef. First on their list was […]

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Quiet and clear horizons: Yes, this is Singapore. Photo: Jimmy Goh/The Hantu Blog The success of the Hantu Blog definitely has to be attributed to its handful of dedicated and tenacious volunteers. What began as a humble blog to document and share experiences and photographs from individual divers who visited Pulau Hantu, has grown into […]

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Phyllidia ocellata, a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusk in the family Phyllidiidae. When the tropical storm blew across the island on Saturday night, divers laid in their beds, quietly contemplating the conditions that we’d face out at sea on Sunday morning. The rain had stopped by the morning, […]

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