What better way to spend the holidays than with a dive into Singapore waters! Deepavali, or Diwali, is a festival celebrated by Hindus with lights, food and mandalas! It’s a colourful time of the year, just like our coral reefs! This post is accompanied by photos by Koh Kwan Siong and Heng Pei Yan, who […]

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Our Southern Islands have been getting plenty of attention lately. A recent article in Singapore’s Straits Times detailed the launch of dive trails at Sisters’ Island Marine Park and yet another shared about potential for quiet island getaways right here in Singapore! In June, the Hantu Blog was joined by a television crew shooting an episode […]

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The Hantu Blog has been bringing divers to our reefs for over a decade. Many of our divers return frequently to Pulau Hantu’s reefs because they continue to be awed and rewarded with new and unexpected finds! One such diver is Ann Tan, who took all the photos in this blog post in a single […]

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It’s that time of the year again when SCUBA divers in Singapore get to spend an entire day out at sea, uncovering Singapore’s magical marine mysteries! We do this once a year (that is, overdose on diving at Pulau Hantu) to celebrate the efforts of our dedicated and passionate volunteers, who have been reaching out […]

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Diving in Singapore waters may be daunting for many divers who are accustomed to high visibility waters and at first glance it may seem like there is nothing much to be discovered in the silt ridden reef scape. That’s why the Hantu Blog works hard to train volunteer guides that can help visitors discover and […]

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Our first dive of the year got off to a good start! With waters a chilly 27deg C, we were all reminded it was still the monsoon season. Despite this, diving is never off season in Singapore, and we are very lucky to be able to visit the reefs all year through. This blog post […]

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Over the weekend, there was as big a show of macro wildlife as there was a show of divers! As many as 70 divers from several boats pulled into Pulau Hantu’s reefs for a dive and saw critters like batfish, pipefish, and demon stingerfish. It’s wonderful to have people going out and discovering Singapore reefs, […]

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Divers had a break of sunshine over this monsoon weekend! Coupled with surprisingly good visibility despite the heavy rains we’ve been having, it was a perfect day for a dive! There were sightings of seahorses, pipefish, bamboo shark + a few of their egg cases tied around the reef, carpet eel-blennies, schooling Yellow soapfish (which […]

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Ann Tan is a talented and enthusiastic underwater photographer who has been diving the reefs of Singapore’s Pulau Hantu for more than a few years! Having dived some of the most exotic reefs around Southeast Asia, from East Indonesia, East Malaysia and the Philippines to the Maldives, she says, “Pulau Hantu continues to surprise me… […]

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Local diver and nudibranch enthusiast, Toh Chay Hoon, visited the reefs of Pulau Hantu over the weekend and returned with some wonderful images of Singapore’s urban reefs. She wrote, “Visibility not as good as last week. Only about 2-3m and with some currents. Nonetheless, still two good dives at the jetty with a few nudibranch […]

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