So many nudibranchs, where to find them? What can we learn about these spineless creatures while we are observing them in the wild? One of the easiest things we can observe while out on the reef photographing these sometimes splendidly colourful seaslugs is the stuff that they eat. It also works the other way around! […]

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Hantu Blog dive guide, Audrey Pang, traded in her wetsuit and fins but kept her booties on for her first ever experiences of discovering our reefs with her feet firmly planted on the ground! She shares her eye opening experience with us and shows us how careful treading along the reef at low tide is […]

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Veteran Hantu Blog diver and nudibranch enthusiast, Toh Chay Hoon, joined the our dive over the weekend at Pulau Hantu. She writes, “Had my compressed air fix with The Hantu Bloggers today! Though visibility was not that good…..about 1m-2m, we still saw some wonderful stuff! The water temperature was about 30℃. At this site, I saw only a […]

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Yesterday I had the wonderful privilege of bringing the Ong family out for their virgin dive in Singapore waters! They chose a weekday because they wanted the reef to themselves! Ok, they didn’t say it in those words, but we did have the reef to ourselves and it was nice! Ed-Linddi (left) shared that she’d […]

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Some of you might have heard about the recent rise in sea surface temperatures around Singapore. Our dives at Pulau Hantu last weekend registered temperatures of 30-31deg C! High temperatures are just one of the many triggers of coral bleaching. Some of that was sighted at Pulau Hantu during our dive, but while the reef […]

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Thought there was nothing new to see in Singapore! You’d be blown away by the number of new records we have been making in Singapore’s tiny slither of ocean! Divers out at Hantu in late April photographed this pair of mating nudis, and it turns out they are a new record! Goniobranchus aureopurpureus, previously known as Chromodoris […]

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Kuiters dragonet is a curious little fish commonly found in Singapore’s shallow sheltered mud-sand flats, especially among seagrasses. It is named after Rudie Hermann Kuiter, a Dutch-born Australian underwater photographer, taxonomist, and marine biologist. He’s best known for describing many new species of seahorse. The photographs in this post were taken by Hantu Blog volunteer, […]

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The Hantu Blog visited the reefs of Sultan Shoal this morning to participate in coral relocation efforts initiated by the Maritime and Port Authority (MPA), and led by scientists from the Danish Hydrology Institute (DHI). It’s the first time we are diving Sultan Shoal, and harvesting live coral. While participating in the Comprehensive Mega Marine […]

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Sunset signals our descent!

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Underwater macro enthusiast Chay Hoon made a trip to Pulau Hantu over the weekend and returned with some amazing finds! She writes, “Joined a Hantu Bloggers dive trip that was private chartered by Cedric Sahetapy and Petrus Sahetapy‘s family. We had two good dives at the North jetty! The visibility was about 3-4m and with no current! Lots of […]

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