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December 2023

New Developments at Triton Bay Divers

By |2024-01-22T02:33:25+00:00December 15th, 2023|Events, Guests, News, Resort, Uncategorized|

The team here at Triton Bay Divers are excited to provide you an update on improvements we have made over the past year to both the resort and our operations.

Triton Bay Divers now has a new dedicated transfer boat that is larger and much more comfortable and allows us to get guests to the resort in a little over an hour.

Due to demand, we have also added two new Garden Rooms, which are modelled on the Deluxe Seaview (beach front) guest rooms and have a partial sea view. Because we like to keep our dive groups small we have also added a new dive boat to cater for the additional guests, bring the total to 4, and added to our team, now with 28 staff to service our guests.

We are also excited to announce that we now have a dedicated camera room, for those that prefer not to bring their cameras back to their rooms after each dive, and have expanded the dive center, now with its own dedicated compressor room.

Triton Bay Divers is very excited to be able to announce some new additions to our Team.

Vincent Chew who is from Singapore and owns both Blue Manta and White Manta Liveaboards. He has been working in the diving industry for many years and brings with him a vast experience in dive operations.

Nurul Yazid, who is an award winning professional underwater photographer from Malaysia, having been featured in several magazines. She has over 7 years’ experience running a resort on Pom Pom Island in Malaysia.

And Jack Sumantry, from Ambon, Indonesia, who brings many years’ experience of working at resorts and on liveaboards.  He also runs a local Yayasan/NGO educating children on the importance of marine ecosystems.

This new lineup injects fresh energy and knowledge into Triton Bay Divers and we are confident that you, our guests, will benefit.  We are all looking forward to making Triton Bay Divers and your experience with us the best it can be.

We look forward to welcoming you to our little piece of paradise!

The Team wish Jimmy Thai luck in his future ventures.

April 2021

March 2021

8 NEW Whalesharks Identified in West Papua

By |2024-01-22T02:33:30+00:00March 16th, 2021|Conservation, Diving, News, Resort, Traveling, UW Photos|

After a shout out to some of our previous guests and others who visited Triton Bay, we have managed to help Conservation International identify 8 new Whalesharks that are visiting the region.  Six are from Triton Bay itself and two from Cenderawasih Bay.  If you have any Whaleshark images that shows the ID Spot (please see our earlier blog) please feel free to share them with us and Conservation International.  You never know you may have one that has not yet been identified and you can name it!!!

We would like introduce you to our newly named Whalesharks:

Firstly, those identified by our Guests: Rob & Susie Andrews, Marie Tartar and Faye Simanjutak.

Steven Genkins (Seadoc) managed to identify 5 new whalesharks, and named one after each of his immediate family member and their pet Dog Tyrion!

February 2021

23 Years Later – Triton Bay through the eyes of Joerg Meier

By |2024-01-22T02:33:30+00:00February 15th, 2021|Activities, Diving, Guests, Resort, UW Photos|

After some 23 years since first stepping foot in Triton Bay, Joerg Meier returned this time with family and friends to revisit some of his old haunts and relive the beauty above and below the waves… this is his story….

” None of us can claim 2020 turned out as planned. And with the first month of 2021 gone, it looks like we face another challenging year ahead. Most travel plans in 2020 – including team-ups with German family and friends – did not work out. The positive aspect of negative things was a longer than usual retreat to the remoteness and biodiversity of West Papua. The journey started with two weeks in Batbitim, a tiny island in southern Raja Ampat and Misool Eco Resort’s home. I’m privileged to be a shareholder since 2007. It then continued to Triton Bay, east of Kaimana, in the south eastern part of West Papua’s Bird’s Head’. I first encountered the astonishing beauty and majesty of Triton Bay 23 years ago, in early 1998. Back then, I ventured into the unknown with little more information than this place with its stunning landscapes was supposed to be one of the last untouched paradises in Indonesia’s vast archipelago. There was an interim encounter with Triton Bay in 2009 – cruising on a liveaboard – but only now I had the opportunity of revisiting some of those sites I first discovered in 1998. Ending 2020 observing a stunning sunset over Kalig Island, starting 2021 with a storm approaching Batbitim’s North Bay, to then continue to Triton Bay Divers revisiting majestic Triton Bay, this time with my little family, was the best possible way to end gloomy 2020 and welcome 2021 in good spirits. Some 55 dives later, topped with lagoon and jungle excursions, now back in Jakarta, we already miss that remoteness, the diving, and being exposed to the sounds of nature. Belated Happy New Year 2021 to all of you – stay healthy, safe and sane! ”

From Joerg’s images below, I think we can all agree Triton Bay is beautiful above and below the waves!

Below the waves…..

September 2018

Summer 2018

By |2020-04-03T18:03:30+00:00September 8th, 2018|Diving, Resort, UW Photos|

The off-season in Triton Bay usually runs around June to late Sept. Water temperature drops and the wind and waves pick up, making boat travel uncomfortable at best and sometimes even dangerous. We usually focus on renovations and improvements to the resort at this time. A few years ago we added new guest rooms, while last season saw new rooms for staff. The major project this past summer was changing the roofs on all the guest rooms and restaurant to a more durable and long lasting type of wood shingle. We even managed a few dives – the water might be cold for divers but the fish and corals don’t seem to mind!

October 2016

From Above

By |2019-01-12T17:27:37+00:00October 16th, 2016|Resort|

If you come to Triton Bay, it won’t take long before you realize the area has some spectacular topography.  Visitors have remarked that some places remind them a little of Palau, and a little of Wayag in Raja Ampat.  Two of our first guests this season, Markus Roth and Karsten Heinrich, brought along drones and provided us with some stunning aerial photographs. What a way to kick off the season!

From top left: islands in Triton Bay that are probably best experienced from a kayak; the resort built just off the beach and surrounded by the tropical rainforest of Aiduma; Little Komodo with its rich and diverse reef hidden below; a Bryde’s Whale – they have been a common sighting for us in the summer of 2016; Our little bay with the sunset in the distance and the resort barely visable.  Thanks for the photos Markus & Karsten!

 

August 2016

Triton Bay Divers in Nereus

By |2024-02-14T08:01:25+00:00August 15th, 2016|Diving, Guests, Resort, UW Photos|

Red School - HaiderTriton Bay Divers has recently been featured twice in the Swiss Diving magazine Nereus!  For those who read German, please check out the article by Andrea Rothlisberger in the June issue, and by Thomas Haider in the August issue (part 1).  Additional photos from Thomas can be found on their website at this link.  Photo above by Thomas Haider.

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July 2016

Plants and Flowers

By |2019-01-12T17:27:37+00:00July 23rd, 2016|Resort|

One thing we knew right from the beginning when we first started building was that the land at the back of the resort was very fertile.  Here was untouched rain forest and the land took months to clear.  At first we thought we had cut down too many trees, but within a few months all the tree stumps we thought were dead had regrown two or three meters.  Now, after two years those tree stumps tower five or six meters.  When we were building, someone ate papaya, and papaya must be the world’s fastest growing tree.  From nothing, a papaya tree can reach three or four meters in a year if it gets enough water, and the resort must have about thirty trees by now!

But not all plants grow as fast and as easily as papaya.  Some plants like lots of water, some don’t.  Last summer it rained once in three months; this summer maybe there was only one day that it didn’t rain!  So even though the papaya trees have done very well, it has been almost impossible to keep plants such as bouganvilias which don’t like too much water.  Additionally, the land at the front where the bungalows are is quite sandy, so it has been a challenge to grow flowers there.

But for the most part we are quite happy with the variety of plants, flowers, fruits, and vegetables that we have growing here.   In addition to the many coconut trees, we have mango and wax apple trees which are seasonal.  There are a few banana trees that are beginning to bear fruit, and we have grown tomatoes, long beans, melons, and chile peppers.  The boys have found wild orchids around the island, and we have planted a few that are just beginning to blossom now.

Below is a gallery of some of the plants that we have here.  There are a few that I don’t know the names of, so if anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated!

 

February 2016

Blessing Ceremony

By |2019-01-12T17:27:38+00:00February 11th, 2016|Resort|

We had some down time at the resort at the end of January and so our Papuan partners performed a traditional blessing ceremony for the land.  It was a short, simple ceremony that involved some prayers in Arabic (they are Muslim), some offerings (including four roosters to be sacrificed), and a big lunch for everyone involved.  It may have been a little late, but we’re happy to have had it done and everything is proper to everyone’s satisfaction.

 

November 2015

Triton Bay Divers in SilentWorld

By |2019-01-12T17:27:38+00:00November 29th, 2015|Diving, Guests, Resort|

Christmas Rock Panoramic

Above photo: underwater 360 degree panoramic of Christmas Rock, one of Triton Bay’s better known dive sites.

For German readers, below is an article by Connie Thieme in the most recent SilentWorld magazine about her stay with us earlier this year.  Thank you Connie for sharing the article, and to AquaVenture for arranging her visit.

SilentWorld article

Connie missed almost a week of diving due to illness, but still managed to put together some incredible photos (including the picture above), which can be seen in our Guest Galleries or on her website Marine-Snapshots.  Look for the black light (UV) shots of various marine animals and corals, and the photo of the Pontohi pygmy seahorse is as good a picture as you’re going to see of these elusive creatures.

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