To whet your appetite for the multitude of pictures and videos that are to follow, here’s a teaser of what divers with the Hantu Blog got to encouter over this very warm weekend! This Giant Reef Cuttlefish was pointed out to me by volunteer dive guide Pei Min, I swam towards the direction her finger […]

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Thanks to Hantu Blog diver (and hopefully soon to be volunteer!) Cindy Tan, I got to experience Pulau Hantu vicariously as I lay at home recovering from the flu bug over the weekend. This is the second time I’m seeing the pictures, but I’ve not yet set my eyes on a squat lobster in the […]

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What’s there to see in the mucky depths of Hantu? PLENTY! Here are some shots, speckled with the stuff that makes Hantu diving so endearingly infamous! Pictures by Blog volunteer Khoo Ming Sheng.

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That’s right. Things are back to normal again at Pulau Hantu after a month of great visibility in March. Finally the water has gotten worthy of its namesake and is once again MUCKY! It wasn’t easy taking the above picture of myself. The camera kept focusing on the particles floating in the 2 feet of […]

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I hope you got lots of time of your hands because this is going to be a long post! Even if you haven’t got much time, I promise that if you look through this post it’s going to be extremely worth your while. Better yet, it might convince you to drop us an email to […]

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As a prelude to the blog post from our Fifth Anniversary dive, here’s an assortment of videos from the waters of Pulau Hantu. Yellow prawn-goby Six banded Angelfish Janss’ pipefish Blue-speckled prawn-goby Flatworms penis fencing Java rabbitfish Reef cuttlefish More reef cuttlefish Even more reef cuttlefish! Tomato clown Anemonefish Star puffer Peacock anemone

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The first dive of 2009 was a cold one! At least underwater it was! Above sea level, the temperature out at Hantu was a scorching 35degC at noon! With a boat full of divers and a volunteer trainee (very exciting times indeed!) we got down to the depths to send our New Year greetings to […]

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The last dive of the year! We were all set for a good one but the weather was testing all of us. Despite the week-long monsoon rains (which have arrived late and scattered this year) the sun shone intensely this Saturday afternoon. Almost as if to mock us, the water was frigidly cold and divers […]

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Keen-eyed nudibranch spotter and regular Hantu Blog diver Chay Hoon also managed to spot the Bornella anguilla nudibranch above which she observed devouring a mouthful of hydroid corals. And the much sought after Tritonia nudibranch below. But her most exciting finds for the day (at least for the both of us!) must be the juvenile […]

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It rained this weekend on our way to Palau Hantu. Dark, grey clouds over the water create a dull landscape, not to mention a cold exit after soaking in the sea diving for about an hour! [above & below: Doto bella nudibranch on frond of Giant Hydroid] The visibility depite the overcast sky, was about […]

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