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Reef clean up Gili Air, Gili Islands 19th July

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Yesterday is was clean up day at Oceans 5 dive resort. It means clean up the beach, the oceans and the reefs in front of Oceans 5.

Oceans 5 is located in the harbor of Gili Air. All the fast boats from Bali are arriving there and that means a lot of tourist leave their garbage behind and that dissapear in the ocean.

Oceans 5 organises every week a clean up, cuz the reef in front of the resort is a brilliant reef to see all kind of things, like seahorses, pipefish, nudis, mimic octopus and mandarin fish. Also Oceans 5 likes to make more people aware how important the oceans are for our planet.

This time 7 people joined the clean up and the result was 6 bags full of rubbish.

Oceans 5 like to thank every one who joined and for who wants to join : info@oceans5dive.com or come into our shop on Gili Air, Gili Islands.

Reef clean up dive Gili Air Gili islands great success

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Oceans 5 dive resort organised another cleun up dive in the harbor of Gili Air, Gili Islands.

12 persons joined the clean up dive. The location was in the front of Oceans 5 dive resort. This is the spot where the fastboats arrive and leave. The tourists that take the fast boats to Bali leave a lot of garbage behind them and a lot of it comes in the water and sinks to the bottom.

After one hour of diving the result was 11 bags full of plastic, plastic bottles, can etc. The area needs more clean up. Hopefully we see you all next time.

For further information: info@oceans5dive.com

Seahorses in the harbor of Gili Air, Gili Islands, Lombok

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The harbor of Gili Air is a really exciting dive spot. It one of the best muck diving spots around the Gili Islands. One of the main attractions are the 4 different kind of seahorses. You will find them straight in the front of Oceans 5 dive resort.

Seahorses are truly unique, and not just because of their unusual equine shape. Unlike most other fish, they are monogamous and mate for life. Rarer still, they are among the only animal species on Earth in which the male bears the unborn young.

Found in shallow tropical and temperate waters throughout the world, these upright-swimming relatives of the pipefish can range in size from 0.6 inches (1.5 centimeters) to 14 inches (35 centimeters) long.

Male seahorses are equipped with a brood pouch on their ventral, or front-facing, side. When mating, the female deposits her eggs into his pouch, and the male fertilizes them internally. He carries the eggs in his pouch until they hatch, then releases fully formed, miniature seahorses into the water.

Because of their body shape, seahorses are rather inept swimmers and can easily die of exhaustion when caught in storm-roiled seas. They propel themselves by using a small fin on their back that flutters up to 35 times per second. Even smaller pectoral fins located near the back of the head are used for steering.

They anchor themselves with their prehensile tails to sea grasses and corals, using their elongated snouts to suck in plankton and small crustaceans that drift by. Voracious eaters, they graze continually and can consume 3,000 or more brine shrimp per day.

Population data for most of the world’s 35 seahorse species is sparse. However, worldwide coastal habitat depletion, pollution, and rampant harvesting, mainly for use in Asian traditional medicine, have made several species vulnerable to extinction.