What does the sea have in store for divers in Singapore? Swing by the Urban Forest blog to get a glimpse of some of the creatures you can expect when exploring the depths of Singapore waters! Photo: Angie/Urban Forest blog

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Excerpt from ICCS Blog: The turtle named Puteri Pulau Upeh was ‘first spotted on 29 July 2006 as she laid 108 eggs in an unusually shallow pit which she dug, on Pulau Upeh. The remains of what appeared to be a fishing net was stuck in a crack on the back of her shell.The fishing […]

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Last week, the NUS Student Affairs Department invited The Hantu Blog to give a talk about dive conservation to amateur or budding divers. The two hour workshop also included presentations by dive doctor Dr. Gregory Chan, and Singapore Underwater Federation President Stephen Beng. I managed a half hour presentation that discussed the various ways a […]

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We had comparatively better weather than we had on last months Blog Dive. Despite there being rains throughout the week, the sunshine held up except for a very light drizzle after the first dive. Because of the improved visibility (3-5m) I spent most of my time shooting the colonies of coral which on other days […]

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Last Sunday’s Blog Dive went swell! Some of your might’ve already seen photos from that dive uploaded by regular Blog diver and Blogger herself, Chay Hoon. The Hantu Blog will be testing out a new method of photo-sharing on the Blog so the photos are going to take awhile to be loaded up. Please bear […]

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hi all, We have just got our new gallery up, please click here to our gallery area.

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Research mission uncovers many new species in S’pore watersBy Shobana Kesava Straits Times 4 Aug 07 SOME gaze into the marine firmament to look for starfish. For Dr Daphne Fautin, sea anemones give her the thrills. As she peers down a microscope, Dr Fautin, 61, exclaims with excitement: Yet another discovery has been made here […]

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The cold and wet weather throughout the week made me a bit nervous about going for a dive. The last we hope for is having to cancel a dive because of bad and dangerous weather. But we should be so lucky, as moderate to good weather held up on Sunday, and thank goodness! Because Keppel […]

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A research team comprising Dr. Daphne Fautin from the Natural History Museum of Kansas University, Dr. Tan Swee Hee of the RMBR, NUS undergrads and nature enthusiasts made a trip to Hantu on Friday morning with the sole purpose of discovering the many species of anemones that thrive along the islands reefs. Learn which anemones […]

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