Next Level Scuba

Send to the person who needs to get their act together, get their Open water license and buddy up with you on a dive trip to the Gilis. 🫧

Happy Monday our fellow bubble makers 🫶

Octopuses have thousands chromatophores under their skin. These are specialised cells that allow them to change colour instantaneously. Blue-ringed octopuses put on a threat display using these cells and iridophores, a specialised type of light-reflecting chromatophore that gives the blue rings their iridescence. 🌀

When alarmed or attacked, these animals quickly change colour. They use muscles to make their blue patterns appear, displaying them on top of a yellow or cream-coloured base with dark pigmented cells underneath the rings, which helps to intensify their colour. 💙

Like lots of other octopuses, blue-ringed octopuses can also use their chromatophores to help camouflage themselves. They spend a lot of their time tucked away in crevices, hiding from animals that might try to eat them. 🪨

Diving around the Gili Islands is like a box of chocolates 💝

Would you rather dive with octopuses or turtles?

You've been blessed by a Valentine's Day smooch from a real clown 😘

No but seriously, they're adorable! 🫶 Many species adapt their juvenile stages to coincide with specific environmental cues, such as the nutrient-rich waters in the wet season in tropical regions.🪸🫧

Buoyancy is an essential dive skill, but even the turtles would tell you it takes time to perfect. 👌

The Perfect Buoyancy specialty will teach you advanced skills and techniques, so you can master your buoyancy more quickly and enjoy more relaxed dive adventures. In this fascinating program, you will also learn new skills that protect the environment and work in every diving situation. 🫧🪸

Upon completion, you will earn the SSI Perfect Buoyancy Specialty certification. With better buoyancy skills, you will soon be able to hover with ease and take the underwater photographs you dream of!

1-minute mindfulness exercise: Volume up, eyes closed and breathe with the bubbles 🫧