whale shark picture of the week
August 24, 2010 Leave a comment
selamat makan / see more whaleshark pictures here
Ahe dive resort hits cover Scubadiver Australasia .” Discovery of the Decade”
August 18, 2010 Leave a comment
Scubadiver Australasia just hit the shops with the whalesharks of Ahe on the cover and a story on the whalesharks by ‘yours truly’ Get your copy or have a peak at the digital version here
Whale shark picture of the week… hand feeding
July 9, 2010 Leave a comment
Never saw this one before… the fishermen and whale sharks over here have developed a special relationship. The fishermen feed them small fish by hand.
Lupi master in command
July 5, 2010 Leave a comment
The crew of the yacht Meduse heard about our beautiful island with our resident whale sharks and decided to travel half the ocean to pay us a visit. The captain called in the help of our team to guide the yacht to a save anchor place. For thirty minutes our dive guide Lupi was master in command of the 60 meter yacht. Exactly on ‘Lupi’s’ spot he commanded the captain to drop anchor. The following two days we dived with the Medusa crew between schooling whale sharks. The crew already had the opportunity to 
dive in hotspots like Palau, Galapagos and Antartica but they said they never encounter anything like this in the world. Some crew members even deleted all their pictures to save room for the whale sharks. Lupi stayed that night on the yacht as guest of honour. When he returned to Ahe next day he was speechless and still a bit freezing due to the air condition.
Whale shark picture of the week
June 26, 2010 Leave a comment
one of the whale sharks playing peek-a-boo at the fishing platforms near Ahe.
Mike and his Big Pet whale shark
June 12, 2010 3 Comments
At first it looked as if the whale shark was going to have Mike as a small morning snack but it turned out they 
became really good friends. We had the privilege of witnessing something very special on a two hour meet and greet with some very friendly whale sharks in Cenderawasih Bay Papua where we stayed in the 
Ahe dive resort. All is going really well on this scubasigns project and we receive more and more guests that like us are amazed with the whale sharks and their behaviour.
Note… at the Ahe Dive Resort we follow a strict no touch, chase or in any other way harm a whale shark policy .. so far the divers/snorklers comply but the whale sharks just won’t listen.
Training days at Ahe dive resort
May 2, 2010 Leave a comment
Thanks to the training of Rutger, Annet & Maurice our staff learned a lot the last weeks.
Rutger Annet & Maurice kicked of with an open water training to staff that did not yet have their certificate.
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Congratulations to Stephen Raraawi, Jeksi Manuaron, Polyo Sawaki, Risal Manuaron and Rido Manuaron. All staff on Ahe now have a diving certificate. Even when our staff is not part of the dive team, we still encourage them to dive for their hobby and get to know their unique environment.Next all staff received a training on dangerous marine life and the first emergency respons if problems occur! Everybody loved this / very interesting!!
Robert Sawaki, Enos Sawaki & Lupiaga Rouw received their advanced training. They will follow further training on rescue and divemaster and will be prepared to strenghten our current dive team.
Then there was a unique training given by Rutger to the dive team, our captians and head of diving materials Yulian. Rutger learned them everything about servicing and repairing their dive gear and that of the visiting tourists if need be. Big big thanks go out to Eddy van Vliet of Scuba Support in Loosdrecht, Rob
Dekker of Dive Post in Zoetermeer and Richard Wagenaar! They donated a huge amount of special tools that we need to do the service and repairs.. stuff like that is like gold for us in Papua (not available!!) thanks ever so much!
Our staff loves to learn and will never forget the truly unique experience Rutger, Annet and Maurice gave them!
New bungalows on Ahe almost ready
April 13, 2010 4 Comments
some first picks! We used only natural materials and included a private kamar mandi (bathroom) in these spacious bungalows all with view of the beautiful sea.
Island in the sun
March 9, 2010 Leave a comment
Just a nice picture of Ahe to dream away for a minute, taken by Richard Pelupessy on his dive trip to Ahe Eco Dive Resort Papua.
Michael, the human stingray magnet, stung for the 5th time by a stingray… a record?
March 5, 2010 Leave a comment
One of the local Dive guides on Ahe Michael Wabes was unfortunate enough to step on a stingray. Not for the first time…. for the 5th time. There are a lot of stingrays of varying sorts around Ahe, but none of us or the other divers ever got stung. Michael appears to be a magnet to these animals. The pain inflicted is of the category … ‘ really ouch ”’ in the first hour to hour and a half after the sting / it went straight through the shoe of his fin by the way. Fortunate enough the medical post at Mambor (15 minutes by boat) offered quick assistence so Michael was back on his feet and diving again within a day. Want to know how to best treat a stingray sting? visit this link.
