I read an article a few days back about ECOCEAN.
ECOCEAN is a non-profit organization, they undertake research and education activities, to eventually assist marine conservation initiatives. Some of you might remember, a few weeks back Oceans 5 had a magical Whale shark encounter…
Were you on the boat? How did you feel?
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After today’s photo shooting for Cites4Sharks, with as theme Extinction is NOT an option. I figured we could get our shark awareness up today. 43 million sharks are killed every year. Which comes out to 5000 per hour! The main reason is the high value of the shark’s fin, which are purely added for texture in a Chinese delicacy…
Have you ever tried shark fin soup?
Care to share your feeling on the exquisite taste?
Sharks have been on this planet for over 400 million years. The apex predator is being mass murdered. We are hunting them down to extinction. Special thanks to Project AWARE to remind us Extinction is NOT an option!
Lets take action together!
Our Ocean needs us.
If you haven’t heard of Project AWARE yet, its a global force of divers mobilizing to protect our ocean planet in more than 180 countries and territories. If you haven’t joined yet. Do it now. Find out how you can join the movement and take action to protect the sharks and join us at Oceans 5. You can take action and join our weekly underwater beach clean- ups in Gili Air Harbor.
Here are the long awaited results of the Tug of War competition, in Gili Air Indonesia. Look at our short video to get in the Groove of Oceans 5 Gili Fun!
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Oceans 5 teams are preparing for the Tug of War competition!
The competition will take place in Gili Air Indonesia. In Gili Air’s harbor, just in front of Oceans 5 Resort. On the 30th of January. If you haven’t enrolled yet, contact us to enroll! Read more…
Shark Point this morning was absolutely amazing! We saw a group of twenty bump-head parrot fish, at least fifteen turtles, a black-tip reef shark and tons of colorful reef fish! Continue reading
Bartender Juli
Juli started working at Oceans 5 dive resort, in Gili Air Indonesia, around 6 months ago. He is originally from Lombok. The closest, “main land” island. He’s from a village called Karang Pangsor. Not far from Bangsal, the main harbour to get to Gili air. His family still lives in Karang Pangsor. Just a 20 minute boat ride away. Which makes it easy for him to visit his family. He loves working on the Gili’s, because in the village he gets a little bored and there are no work oportunities. He used to work at Bangsal harbour, which has a welknown reputation of being a fairly not so enjoyable place. Continue reading
Stargazers (Uranoscopidae)
Stargazers are named for their peculiar appearance with eyes positioned dorsally on the head, usually with protruding eyes that are directed upward. The body is moderately elongate and depressed anteriorly. The large head is almost entirely encased in sculptured bones and also flattened. The large, nearly vertical mouth is equipped with small teeth and there is a peculiar respiratory valve inside the lower jaw that functions as a lure for attracting fish prey. The lips are fringed with numerous papillae in most species. They are also numerous tiny cirri along the fleshy posterior margin of the operculum. The gill openings are very broad and equipped with dorsal, valve like openings, which aid respiration when partially buried. A stout cleithral spine situated just behind each dorsal gill opening. This spine is venomous in at least some species and serious injuries have been reported.
Blennies (Blenniidae)
Blennies occur worldwide in tropical and warm temperate seas like around the Gili Islands with an estimated 350 species in about 50 genera.
They are elongate, laterally compressed fish and most are blunt headed, frequently possessing small tentacles, cirri, or a fleshy crest on the head. There is a single dorsal fin, although the fin may be deeply notched between the anterior spinous portion and posterior soft portion. The mouth is low on the head and not protractile. Jaw teeth are numerous, slender, and close set, either fixed or movable.
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Goatfish (Mullidae)
Goatfish are common in all tropical and warm temperate seas, like around the Gili Islands, Lombok, Indonesia, forming an integral component of the reef fish community throughout the Indo Pacific region. Their distincive appearance includes a slender shape, relatively elongate, pointed snout, a small. slightly ventral, protrusible mouth with maxilla partially hidden under the preorbital, finely ctenoid, moderately large scales, two well separated dorsal fins ans a pair of barbels or chin “whiskers”.
strong>Cardinalfish (Apogonidae)
Cardinalfish are one of the largest families of Indo Pacific reef fish. An estimated 250 species are currently known, of which 150 species occur on or near reefs in the East Indian region, like the Gili Islands. It is also one of the most dymanic groups for new discoveries. Many new species have been described over the past few years and more can be expected.
