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On this page
you’ll find an selection of our BrotherDive
photos. Via these photo's we will try give you an
impression of our trips and the beauty of the
underwater world.
Hopefully we can convince you that we need to
protect and preserve this beautiful marine life
in order to keep making these photos....
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Brotherdive
2021 BDE liveaboard Egypt South route to The
Brother islands - Daedalus reef -
Elphinstone reef
A photo impression of scuba diving
during our 6 day liveaboard on the Red
Sea Aggressor III
This footage was shot over 21 dives
around Coron on the 27th of November till the
3rd
of December 2021. |
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Divecenter: Aggressor fleet
Number of dives: 21 |
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Brotherdive
2019 (Part 2) - Coron - Palawan - Philippines
A photo impression of scuba diving
during our 6 days stay in the El Rio Y
mar resort in Coron.
This footage was shot over 12 dives
around Coron on the 23rd till the 28th
of March 2019. |
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Divecenter: Dugong dive
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Number of dives: 12 |
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Brotherdive
2019 (Part 1) - Tubbataha - Philippines
A photo impression of scuba diving
during our 6 days stay onboard of the
Infinti on the Tubbataha reefs.
This footage was shot over 17 dives on
the Tubbataha reefs and the Jessie
Beazley Reef on the 17th till the 22nd
of March 2019.
Unfortunately, due to bad weather
conditions, we were not able to dive on
all the sites we’ve hoped for.... Never
the less, we made some amazing dives on
Tubbataha! |
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Divecenter: Infiniti
Liveaboard
Number of dives: 17 |
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Brotherdive
2018 - Maratua Atoll - Nabucco Island
A photo impression of scuba diving with
Extra Divers around Nabucco Island.
Nabucco Island, a real piece of paradise
located within the Maratua Atoll (Borneo
- Indonesia). This footage was shot over
30 dives in 9 days around the Maratua
Atoll, Kakaban Island and Sangalaki
Island.
The Maratua Atoll is located in the
Celebes Sea, and contains one of the
most beautiful underwater habitats in
the world.
The dive sites are captivating due to
their biodiversity and the nutrient rich
currents coming from the Pacific Ocean.
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Some
of the highlights are “The Channel”,
also known as “Big Fish Country”,
Sangalaki; World famous for it's Mantas
and Kakaban famous for it's great wall
dives and it's Jelly Fish lake.
Divecenter: Extra Divers
Nabucco
Number of dives: 30 |
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Brotherdive
2017 Raja Ampat – West Papua (Indonesia)
A photo impression of scuba diving with Papua
diving center in the beautiful waters around Kri
island (Raja Ampat) in March 2017.
Raja Ampat,
or the Four Kings, is an archipelago comprising
over 1,500 small isles and it is a part of the
newly named West Papua Province of Indonesia
which was formerly Irian Jaya.
Raja Ampat diving offers some of the best diving
in the world.
It is the world’s most bio-diverse marine region
with more recorded fish, coral and mollusk
species than anywhere else on the planet.
Our 'home base' was Kri Island which is located
in the Dampier Strait. There are more than 30
sites in closest proximity of the Island.
One of the well known divesites is 'Cape Kri',
this is the Papua Diving house reef on Kri. This
is the dive site that put Raja Ampat on the map
when Dr Gerry Allen smashed his record for total
number of fish species on a single tank dive:
374 different species!
Other famous dive sites like 'Sardines' and
'Blue Magic' are a must for every diver! |
RAJA
AMPAT PART 1
RAJA
AMPAT PART 2 |
Swarming fusiliers spin above, pursued by huge
giant trevallies, packs of Bluefin jacks and
huge Spanish mackerels. Schools of Big eye Trevallies and many large Barracudas can be seen.
Green Turtles can be found here as well as Giant
Manta Rays.
Batfish gather in the hundreds, while multitudes
of schooling bannerfish feed in the current.
Grey reef sharks, blacktips and whitetips can
also be seen along with the wobbegong waiting in
ambush on the sea floor..
Divecenter: Papua Diving
Number of dives: 32 |
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Our (micro) BrotherDive 2016 on Candidasa - Bali -
Indonesia.
While Edwin was on a scuba diving holiday in
October on Bali, Marcel decided to join his
brother to celebrate Edwin’s birthday…….. This
surprise
resulted in a 3 day (micro) Brotherdive on Nusa
Penida !!
Diving
around Nusa Penida is just fantastic! It offers
incredible dive sites where you have great
chances to see the famous and rare Mola Mola
also called Oceanic Sunfish. The best place to
see the Mola Mola is the dive site Crystal Bay.
However the current can be strong and tricky
therefore it's not always possible to dive there. |
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The visibility on Nusa Penida can be brilliant,
here you can enjoy impressive wall dives, fast
drift dives with a great variety of marine life
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One of the most famous dive sites around Nusa Penida is 'Manta Point' where numerous manta
rays come all year round to enjoy the cleaning
station.
Note: The current can be very strong and
unpredictable around Nusa Penida. Having over 4
knots of current is not rare.
Divecenter: Zen Dive Bali / Bambu Divers
Number of dives: 6 |
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BrotherDive 2016 on Playa del
Carmen - Mexico
These photos are made on various dive locations
on Playa del Carmen, Cozumel and Puerto Morelos.
They give you a good idea of the beauty of
diving in the Mexican Caribbean!
From the C-56 wreck on Puerto Morelos , till the
beautiful deep / wall dives on Cozumel and the
spectacular drift dives along the coast of Playa
del Carmen. Diving
with Bull sharks: From November Bull sharks
visit the 'Playa' area to spend the winter till
March when they migrate north.
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(Unfortunately the sharks already left
by the time we were in Playa...)
With a visibility of more than 40 meters is
Cozumel a diver’s paradise.
The reef in Cozumel is full of attractions that
have survived and overcame nature's dashing.
It's walls goes down to until they get lost in
the deep blue and are so full of life, that one
dive it's not enough to completely admire them.
Divecenter: DiveMex
Number of dives: 14 |
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BrotherDive 2016
on Playa del Carmen - Mexico (Cenotes)
"Cenotes" - The Mayan
entrance to the underworld
Another set of Mexico, these pictures are taken
in various cenotes in the Playa del Carmen area
in Mexico (Riviera Maya). They show you the
mysterious cave systems underneath the surface
of Yucatan, known as the longest underwater cave
system in the world.
To the ancient Maya, cenotes were passageways to
the underground world of Xibalba.
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The Yucatan Peninsula is formed, completely, of
limestone; its porous nature let the rain go
through, creating caverns along the time. Those
caverns were forming stalactites and stalagmites
(some of them are immense). After the last Ice
Age, the deepest caverns were flooded by water
coming from thawing and became the way to enter
the caverns.
These pictures where taken in the following
cenotes: El Pit, Dos Ojos (Batcave & Barbie line),
Angelita, Dreamsgate (left & right line), Zapote
(Hell’s bells), Kin Ha.
Divecenter: DiveMex
Number of dives: 8 (Cenotes) |
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Impression of Brotherdive
2015 on Palau - Micronesia
Diving in paradise:
Palau offers world-class diving with sea walls,
sheer drop-offs, caves and an exuberance of
marine life. Palau (or Belau) is a 100-mile long
archipelago, southeast of the Philippines. Lots
of divers visit Palau each year, most of them
specifically to dive with sharks.
Divers come to Palau for the amazing dive sites
that have made Palau world famous.
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Palau is considered one of the world's premier
dive destinations, with dozens of dive sites in
a rare variety: walls with fascinating coral
formations, reef corners where the currents
attract sharks, rays and schooling fish,
channels and other sandy bottom sites, tunnels,
holes, caves and caverns, and plenty of WWII
freighter and plane wrecks! From macro to
mantas, Palau has it all!
Dive locations as Blue Corner, German Channel
and blue holes are deservedly world famous.
Divecenters: Sam's tours (Unique Diving Expedition)
and Fish 'n Fins Divecenter
Number of dives: 27 |
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(Micro) Brotherdive 2014 - Hurghada Egypt Due to private circumstances it was
not possible to plan a official Brotherdive in 2014.
However we've managed to dive a couple of days together during one of our family
holidays in the Red Sea around Hurghada.
With only four common dives we label this as being a 'Micro Brother Dive'.
The Red Sea (Arabic: Bahr el-Ahmar)
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The Red Sea is home to amazing Reefs with a teeming marine life, pelagic fishes,
Reef Sharks, turtles and Dolphins. The Red Sea Reef stretches over 2250 km along
the coast of Egypt, Sudan, and Eritrea. There are more than 1,100 species of
fish that call this Red Sea Reef 'home'. It also has a variety of 200 soft and
hard corals. The Red Sea Reef was officially declared as one of the 7 Natural
Wonders of Africa.
The Red sea is, after the Great Barrier Reef, the second largest coral reef
system in the world, and is also one of the oldest reefs in the world, dating
back five to seven thousand years.
Like Jacques Yves Cousteau once said: "The Red sea is amazing, I've experienced
my best dives here"
Divecenter: Tauchen unter Freunden
Number of dives: 4 |
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BrotherDive 2013 - Malaysia (Mabul / Sipadan)
Mabul, just a twenty minute boat ride from
Sipadan
The triangle between Malaysia, Indonesia, and
the Philippines is one of the most bio-diverse
marine habitats in the world. Strong ocean
currents, deep sea trenches and sea mounts,
combined with active volcanic islands have
created a complex oceanographic environment that
is paradise for divers. The beauty of this
region lies in it's diversity. |
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The highlight of this trip is the world-famous
Sipadan Island, home to thousands of turtles,
schooling sharks, swirling barracuda, and
awe-inspiring coral walls dropping more than
600m straight down to the sea floor.
Divecenters: Borneo divers
Number of dives: 20 |
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BrotherDive 2013 - Malaysia (Kapalai / Sipadan)
Kapalai is
the third point of the famous 'Golden Triangle',
with Sipadan and Mabul being the other two.
Kapalai is not a true island but a sandbar on
which they build a resort on. Kapalai is, like
Mabul, also a 20 minutes boatride from Sipadan.
While the resort was originally built for it's
proximity to world-famous Sipadan, we also
discovered the paradise that awaited just
beneath the resort. |
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Kapalai is undoubtedly one
of the premiere macro dive sites in the world !
Divecenters: Kapalai Diving Center
Number of dives: 9 |
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BrotherDive 2012 - Indonesia - Bunaken (North Sulawesi)
Bunaken is a small tropical island
approximately 15 km from Manado on the mainland of North Sulawesi. Scuba diving
around the Bunaken islands is terrific. The entire area is protected via the
'Bunaken Marine Park'. (over 70.000 hectares)
The waters around the park are as deep as 1600 meters which gives you the
opportunity to experience some of the best wall diving experiences in the world!
(Bunaken was voted the best wall-diving in Asia). Visibility can go to 50 meters
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With over 390 species of coral and numerous species of fish it's a true diving
paradise.
A sunset view over the next to the island located volcano (Manado Tua) makes it
all complete....
Divingcenter: Bastianos Diving Center Bunaken
Number of dives: 13 |
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BrotherDive 2012 - Indonesia - Lembeh (North Sulawesi)
The
Lembeh strait - Critters paradise
The Lembeh strait is located between the Lembeh
Island and the mainland in the North Eastern
part of North Sulawesi.
Diving in Lembeh is like jumping into a world of
tiny strange and weird creatures. Lembeh Strait
is known as the "muck diving" capital of the
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The Lembeh Strait is one of the few
places in the world where you will
see the exclusive hairy frog fish,
pygmy sea horses, rare species of
Nudibranchs, the thorny seahorse,
mimic octopus, wunderpus and
flamboyant cuttlefish to name a few.
(And we saw them all !!)
Most of the diving is done on
volcanic black sand.
Lembeh is only a couple of hours from Bunaken (Boat
& car), it's worth to combine a trip like we did!
Divingcenter: Bastianos Diving Center Lembeh
Number of dives: 12
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Marcel
on a shark expedition with Jim Abernethy’s scuba adventures on the Bahama's in 2012
Do you like to dive up close with some of the
largest sharks in the world! Experience tigers,
hammerheads and a variety of other sharks in the
clear shallow waters of the Bahamas.
Well, Marcel did it !!
On his trip to the world famous “Tiger Beach.”
he made some amazing pictures... |
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This spectacular location is unlike any other in
the world. At Tiger Beach you will have one of
the most unique underwater experiences of your
life. Imagine yourself surrounded by lemon and
tiger sharks......
Divecenter: Jim Abernethy’s scuba adventures |
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BrotherDive 2011 Vilamendhoo Island - South Ari Atoll - Maldives
Our first 'BrotherDive'
It
all started with this holiday.....
The 26 atolls (ring-shaped reefs) in the
Maldives are home to 1192 islands
Located on the Southeast corner of Ari atoll,
Vilamendhoo island lies in the heart of some of
the most thrilling dive sites in the Maldives.
White beaches, palm studded gardens, tropical
lush vegetation and turquoise blue lagoons
surrounds the only 900 x 250 meter Island on all
sides.
The island is a total dream for diving addicts,
with over 50 dive sites and a fantastic house
reef with 10 entry points, Vilamendhoo is the
perfect diver’s paradise.
Most of the dive sites are between 10 minutes
and 1 hour away from the island. A full daytrip
to Sun Island to encounter whale sharks, or to
Rangali Madivaru for the manta rays is highly
recommended !! |
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All different kind of reef sharks (white tips,
black tips, greys, silver tips, leopard and
nurse sharks) and rays (black spotted, eagle
rays, torpedo rays, feather tail and guitar rays)
as well as Mantas and whale shark are seen
frequently on the different trips or even on the
house reef !!
Divecenter: Eurodivers Vilamandhoo
Number of dives: 30 |
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