We love to take our staff diving, so were really excited when out Office Manager Nafy showed an interest. Here’s her account of what scuba diving in the blue waters of Timor Leste was like: When I wasn’t a diver yet, I could see many...
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Dive Atauro with DTL Dive Atauro Island with Dive Timor Lorosae! Just 25km north of Dili is a small island of volcanic origin lying between the Indonesian islands of Alor and Wetar. Rugged and remote, the Island has always been sparsely inhabited...
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Jellyfish Jellyfish are part of the Phylum group Cnidarians. This is a widely diverse group that include hard and soft corals, anemones, hydroids, sea fans and gorgonians etc. Despite the diversity they all have a basic body plan, with larvae...
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Timor Leste’s only custom dive boat Timor Leste’s only custom dive boat – Shanti, arrived to the East Timor early January this year (2015) on a long journey from the Philippines, to become the only purpose built dive boat in...
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In my diving life around parts of the world I have worn an array of underwater attire, from long johns underneath a dry suit in water that was 4 degrees to rash vest and board shorts in 27 degrees. Depending on the air temperature usually makes...
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For a few months, all the staff from Dive Timor Lorosae have been working hard on building an Artificial Reef at Tasi Tolu. A what??… Wikipedia describes it as “An Artificial Reef is a human-made underwater structure, typically built...
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The latest Shark of the Month blog from Shark Guardian Found in sub tropical and tropical waters in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, the lemon shark can grow to approximately 3 metres in length and weigh approximately 90 kilograms. It is from the...
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The latest Shark of the Month blog from Shark Guardian There are 3 species of thresher shark and all tend to be solitary creatures. Although they do not appear to be a threat to humans there have been reports of divers being hit by their...
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If you are new to underwater photography, you may find that using natural light, your pictures are coming out with a blue/green hue to them and the true colours are being lost. That’s a problem easy to fix by learning how to manually set...
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Dive Timor Lorosae celebrated World Ocean’s Day by participating in the Dive Around the World to raise money for Guy’s Trust. June 8 was World Ocean’s Day and the charity Guy’s Trust wanted to celebrate by...
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Everyone loves seahorses Seahorses have a horse-like head, a monkey-like tail, a kangaroo-like pouch, and chameleon-like eyes !!! But even if they look very different, they are FISH!!! But this kind of fish that doesn’t really swim...
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Lately, after a number of sightings of sea snakes, we had the debate about how dangerous these graceful creatures really are and here is what we found. Sea snakes are highly venomous. They paralyse their prey by biting them and injecting venom...
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