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Dive Expedition Features Best of Indonesia’s Marine Locations
Leading UK scuba diving tours company Dive Safari Asia have created an expedition which features a collection of Indonesia’s top dive sites. The route spans through a vast network of islands in the heart of the Indonesian archipelago and features diving across a range of unique marine habitats.
Indonesia makes up over 17,000 different islands. The country is located in the heart of the coral triangle, an area of rich biodiversity. Scientists widely believe Indonesia to be home to more species of life than anywhere else on earth.
The regions featured across the expedition include vertical coral reef walls that descend to hundreds of meters at Bunaken Marine Park in North Sulawesi. The Lembeh Strait, which is a channel of shallow water with a volcanic black sand base that is home to a staggering range of bizarre and oddly shaped creatures know to divers as ‘critters’. Finally Raja Ampat, a network of over 1,500 islands located on the boarder of New Guinea where expedition members will experience pristine coral reefs and dive with giant manta rays.
Tour leaders Ben Stokes and Sarah Kemsley carefully selected a number of specific dive sites to feature in the expedition following over 10 years and thousands of dives throughout the region.
‘This expedition is as much about diving as it is about nature, we’re going to be coming across marine life in all shapes and sizes during these trips’ describes Ben, ‘we feel it should attract both experienced divers and nature lovers in general’.
Accommodation en route includes a family owned dive resort in North Sulawesi (Tasik Ria Resort), a lodge on an otherwise uninhabited island in West Papua (Raja Ampat Dive Lodge) and a highland retreat in the Minihasan Highlands of Sulawesi.
Dive Safari Asia is a UK based company founded in 2008 by Ben Stokes and Sarah Kemsley. The couple spent 8 years working in various locations around the world as instructors and dive guides before returning to the UK to create their own brand of dive holidays which includes a number of exclusive expedition style trips through remote areas of Indonesia.
The next Best of Indonesia Expedition takes place between 15th November and 1st December 2013, and includes 14 nights accommodation with full board, 32 dives, all internal transfers, various land based excursions and is fully guided throughout. Prices from £3,250.00 including international flights.
For more information, contact the Dive Safari Asia team:
Telephone: 0800 955 0180
Email: ben@divesafariasia.com
Website: www.divesafariasia.com
Over the next 12 months, specialist scuba holiday company Dive Worldwide will be supporting Bite-Back Shark & Marine Conservation with donations collected from client bookings to any one of its stunning dive destinations around the world. The independently-owned operator expects to raise £3000 for the UK charity.
Manager at Dive Worldwide, Phil North, said: “We’re especially excited to work with Bite-Back and support its intelligent, creative and results-driven campaigns to end the UK trade in shark products and prompt a change in attitudes to the ocean’s most maligned inhabitant.”
Bite-Back is running campaigns to hold the media to account on the way it reports shark news along with a brand new nationwide education programme. Last year the charity was credited for spearheading a UK ban on the import and export of shark fins.
Campaign director at Bite-Back, Graham Buckingham, said: “We’re enormously grateful to Dive Worldwide for choosing to support Bite-Back. The company’s commitment to conservation helps set it apart from other tour operators and we’re certain its clients admire and respect that policy. For us, the affiliation is huge and helps us look to the future with confidence we can deliver against key conservation programmes.”
To launch the fundraising initiative, Phil North presented Graham Buckingham with a cheque for £1,000.
Visit Dive Worldwide to discover its diverse range of international scuba adventures and visit Bite-Back to learn more about the charity’s campaigns.
MORE INFORMATION
Call Graham Buckingham on 07810 454 266 or email graham@bite-back.com
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