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07.07.2017 Area Manager Otmar and future dive center manager Florian are on the island and check around. It is the first visit for Florian, who is impressed of the size and the distances on Hondaafushi! No wonder, as he is used to little Bathala Island. [...]

Group from Bamberg

06.10.2017 Our dear repeater guest Udo and his group from Bamberg had a lovely week of diving on "Eagle Ray Sharm" with our guides Natalie, Francesco and Ali.

Mount Agung

02.10.2017 The mighty Agung sparks lots of concerns lately. We at the Alam Anda are largely unaffected, so we do not feel great tremors and are also not in the evacuation zone (12 km around the volcano). We do our best to enable our guests [...]

Eastcoast rocks! No! Westcoast rocks! Eastcoast rocks, Westcoast rocks…

30.09.2017 When everybody is still discussing if Eat- or Westcoast, we are doing differently. Both is beautiful for diving and with this in mind we came up with our annual and famous “Westcoast Event”. During last week every day we were going to the rough [...]

Ras Umm Sid

29.09.2017 One of the most beautiful dive sites in Sharm is Ras Umm Sid. Today our guests had the pleasure of encountering two white-tip reef sharks, three eagle rays and two big napoleon wrasses. Thanks to Kai for the picture.

Old but gold – Oasis fashion !

27.09.2017 After New York, Paris, London the beard fashion finally arrived at the Oasis.

Update Hondaafushi

27.09.2017 As we have just heard from Schauinsland Reisen, the opening of Hondaafushi has been postponed once again. Schauinsland Reisen is now only confirming bookings and stays from 06.11.2017. Our Area Manager is on his way to the Maldives and will be on site during [...]

House reef

25.09.2017 After two days strong wind, we went to the house reef again. We were expecting bad visibility, but as you can see on the pictures, the vis was very good.

Current situation in Bali

03.09.2017 Due to the risk of eruption of the volcano Gunung Agung in Northeast Bali, the government ordered the extensive evacuation of the area around the volcano in the evening of the 22nd September. Within a radius of 12 km around the crater, the entire [...]

Lumpfish – Myth or reality???

23.09.2017 2 weeks of intense search are coming to an end. Our annual Photo- and Video event is past already. The slogan: Searching for the lumpfish! We´ve been celebrating accordingly during the famous gala night in Aldiana. Above you can see our internal lumpfishes also [...]

Then and now

21.09.2017 We browsed the archiv a bit and look what we found. That's how the Koimas used to look like. Well, sure that after nearly 8 years under water the wreck doesn't look the same any more. But the fishes seem to love their home. [...]

Update Bathala

19.09.2017 Dear Guests, due to the start of the renovation on Bathala, we will temporarily close the diving centre from 31.10.2017. Until now there is no date for reopening. Of course, we keep you up to date.

Super repeater

16.09.2017 Sandra and Rene visited us the 4th time in Siddhartha. This time there was even more to celebrate. Both of them completed some round dives with us. Rene 100 dives in Bali - all of them in Siddhartha + his 300th dive Sandra 100 [...]

Oh goshhhhh! It is simply not enough…

15.09.2017 There is a lot going on currently! In between Dolphin- and Whale Tour and also for the next week we are still running our beloved Photo- and Video Event with Martin Biedel. Furthermore we are developing the next generation of Dive Master. Ebru and [...]

Alam Anda from above

14.09.2017 In his holidays our guest Daniel let his drone fly and sent some pretty nice impressions from high above. Thank you very much as you don´t see Alam Anda from this perspective every day ;)

Silence

14.09.2017 Most of you know our dive center cat Lumpi. He is enjoying the peace on our terrace.

Macro von unserem Bernd

12.09.2017 We love the pictures from Bernd Schreiber. One more time, beautiful pics. Thank you so much!

Staff indroduction – our dive center managers

12.09.2017 Time for some girl power! Andrea has been in Sharm el Sheikh since 2006, when she started working at Werner Lau. She says she is from Germany but we all know she is a true Sharmer at heart. She became a diving instructor in [...]

Our artificial reef

09.09.2017 Our artificial reef at the Housereef is unbelievable. Many fishes call it their home or passing by to get cleaned. Today we went in to put some corals on our newest project. We hope they will grow fast, like at our older projects. Thanks [...]

Die Sommerferien sind vorbei

08.09.2017 After two months busy season we have less to do. Most of the children has started the school again, but some of them have still holiday. Dominik is enjoying the last days and went to dive with Helle on the house reef.

They are still there…

08.09.2017 Our interim report lovely people! Last week we had an incredible meeting during our beloved whale- & dolphin tour. Around 6km in front of the island it all took place. The first whale. Afterwards it didn´t stop. On a length of 200m we had [...]

Tom and Birgit

05.09.2017 Tom and Birgit, two of our Danish repeater guests, have been visiting us again and had a great week of diving. Thanks for sending us some pictures. We hope to see you soon.

September Sightings

03.09.2017 Due to the weather circumstances, which are typical for this time of the year, it is not always easy to enter and exit the water. But to give you a helping hand and more, we have our excellent team to assist you. And your [...]

Welcome Ahmed

03.09.2017 We have grown. We have added a new team member. Ahmed is from the Maldives and knows all about the Atolls. He has been working in the dive industry for a long time. Since 3 years he is a dive instructor too. We are [...]

Manta Manta

01.09.2017 Once again a perfect tour to Manta point/Nusa penida- Many Mantas and happy faces !