Once again, Blog volunteer Jimmy Goh returns from a trip at Hantu Island with some fascinating macro insights into local seas. What a lovely perspective of these usually skittish animals! (Above: Ornate goby)

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This weekend, Hantu Blog volunteer Cindy Tan took her new underwater camera out for a familiarisation dive at Pulau Hantu. Testing new equipment couldn’t be more fun! There’s nothing like being able to share the stuff you’ve seen underwater with someone else who wasn’t there. And having a reliable piece of equipment makes all the […]

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You won’t believe what Hantu Blog divers saw in and around Pulau Hantu recently! Blog volunteer dive instructor Jimmy Goh plunged into the very clear local waters twice this month. A surprise for this time of the year! Jimmy visited the islands of Hantu and Jong, which is just a few hundred meters away from […]

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Our beautiful nudibranch won in last week’s EOL photo contest! The Encyclopedia of Life has a lively EOL flickr group with regular contests themed around various aspects of the Planet’s amazing biodiversity. So it was a great surprise that our humble but very handsome Chromodoris lineolata won the contest about ‘stripes’. Other entries included spectacular […]

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A blenny makes a home out of an experiment. This blenny on the reef of Pulau Hantu, has made a home out of a silt trap. Bet few predators can squeeze into this little tube.

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When you surface from a dive at Hantu, the first things you see are oil refineries and industry all around. Surfacing from a dive at Keppel Bay, you’re surrounded not only by some of the most expensive real-estate on the island, but also by cranes and sky scrapers! Who’d have thought just putting your face […]

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The Award Ceremony will be held in Singapore in conjunction with the ASEAN Conference on Biodiversity which will be held on 21-23 October 2009.

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Hantu’s reefs have alot of potential for photographers, especially if they are looking out for macro stuff. A suitably rigged up camera and a keen set of eyes can leave the photographer gasping for more air as there’s hardly ever enough time to finish shooting everything. Here’s a close up peak into the hidden lives […]

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