Giant frogfish
Swimming, Snorkeling and Diving to See and Observe the Giant frogfish
The Giant frogfish dwells in lagoons and coral reefs, from the surface to a depth of 20m. It is often found in sponges, wrecks, pillars, decks, and artificial reefs. It imitates the color of the sponge where it hides. It remains still, supported by its pectoral fins. It can clamber over the sea bottom. When it feels threatened, it can use its tail to propel itself and its mouth to drain water like the siphon of an octopus. It has migrated from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean coasts of Israel via the Suez Canal.
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Antennarius commerson
Macro
Antennaire géant, Antennaire de Commerson, Poisson-grenouille géant, Commerson's frogfish, Giant frogfish, Giant anglerfish, Big anglerfish
Food
The Giant frogfish is an ambush hunter. It remains still for long periods of time. It has chameleon-like skin and blends with its environment. Its mouth opens widely and quickly to catch its prey as it swims along. It also has a lure, which shakes to bait its prey.
Breeding
It belongs to the oviparous species. During the breeding season, the couple swims to the surface. The female secretes the eggs, which are immediately fertilized by the male. A mass of mucus containing the eggs floats at the surface with the current. The eggs hatch after a few days. The larvae drift for a few weeks. They already have a lure at the top of their large heads.
Dive centers
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Froggies Divers Bunaken
Indonesia
- Bunaken
Froggies Divers is located on the island of Bunaken, a few steps away from the Jetty, in the heart of the Bunaken National Park created in 1991 and covering an area of about 900 km2, a real playground for divers! The Dive Resort is composed of small, standard bungalows with superior standards and budgets at very affordable rates, located on the coast. All packages include half board with three meals a day, coffee, tea, drinking water, Wi-Fi internet access, free laundry service and a free laundry service for children up to 5 years old.
You can train Open Water Diver, Advanced or Rescue with great value for money accommodation and half board packages. The organisation of diving trips with Froggies Divers Bunaken is well thought out with small groups of 4 people per guide. You will find here good rental equipment included in the packages, so you don't have to bring your own. The boats are equipped with safety equipment because of the sites with strong currents. The divemasters and instructors choose the sites according to the currents, the tide and the weather.
The boats depart from various sites allowing the practice of muck diving up to the north of Manado on the Sulawesi coast as well as the exploration of large drop offs around the island. Thanks to the Reserve effect, the sea bed around the island is home to hundreds of species of coral and thousands of fish, nudibranchs and crustaceans, with around 2,000 varieties of animals present. The must of dives is the impromptu encounters with good-sized turtles! Expect conviviality and complete relaxation on this small island where life is punctuated by diving and wonderful sunrises and sunsets. [+]
- Diving around Islands
- Located close to the dive sites
- Accomodations
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Planet Bali Dive
Indonesia
- Sanur

Planet Bali Dive is located along the main street of Sanur, Bali. Here you can take PADI courses from beginner to professional level. You book a snorkeling trip to Nusa Penida with 3 different dive sites for you to go snorkeling while the rest of the team goes diving.
Planet Bali Dive offers good quality equipment, towels are provided and you have water bottles, tea, and coffee on the boat. The team is friendly, available, and attentive. We advise you to make in company of the guides of Planet Bali Dive, a great dive in Tepekong, an island in the north-east of Bali. You leave by minibus to the departure point of the boat, on which you embark.
The divemasters and the captains of the boat know perfectly well the places where the dives take place and are therefore particularly successful on places where turtles, napoleon fish, rays, and moray eels abound. Take a more distant excursion north of Bali to Pemuteran, a small village near the Taman National Park Bali.
You visit the most popular dive sites around Menjangan Island, as well as the 9 other popular dive sites with Temple, BioRock, and Napoleon Reef. Photographers will enjoy the 23°C water at Secret Bay, where fishes take refuge and where incredible invertebrates develop. They escape here from the strong tidal currents of the strait and you have all the leisure to observe them here. [+]
- Manta Rays Watching
- Popular dive sites
- Diving around Islands
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Amigos Del mar
Belize
- San Pedro

The Amigos Del Mar dive center is located in the heart of San Pedro. on the island of Ambergris Caye, Belize. SSI and PADI courses at Amigos Del Mar range from Discover Scuba Diving to Advanced Open Water. Amigos Del Mar's diving specialty is snorkeling and diving trips departing from the world's 2nd largest barrier reef, every day at 9 a.m., with a minimum of 2 participants. As it's only a 10-minute boat ride, you return to Amigos Del Mar to spend the 1-hour surface interval at the dive center, enjoying a snack of fresh fruit, water, coffee and tea. The 2nd dive takes place at 11 am. Return around 12.15pm. A 3rd dive is possible at 1:30 pm.
Amigos Del Mar's strength lies in organizing a daily outing with 3 dives and snorkeling on Blue Hole, Half Moon Caye and Long Caye Wall (the Aquarium). The boat trip takes 2 hours 30 minutes, with a 5:15 a.m. departure and a 5:30 p.m. return. You'll need to have done some local rehabilitation diving beforehand. A minimum of 10 participants is required. Other diving destinations include Amigos Del Mar, Hol Chan, Shark Ray and Mexico Rock and Caye Caulker. Enjoy a 60-minute night dive at 6 m in a pretty coral garden, sheltered by the reef, among nudibranchs and octopus. [+]
- Popular dive sites
- Cultural world heritage of the UNESCO
- Functional boat
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Safari Bali
Indonesia
- Seminyak

Safari Bali is located in Seminyak, Bali. Anne-Sophie, Master Instructor with many years of diving and teaching experience around the world and Arnaud, CMAS** instructor are passionate about macro fauna, pelagics and the sea. They organise safaris around Bali and Nusa Penida with a team of faithful and passionate instructors. Now they even offer cruises to Raja Ampat and Komodo. From the moment they greet you at the airport and on the tour from one point to another in Bali, you will be pleasantly surprised by their sense of organization down to the smallest detail.
This is another way to visit Bali with a view of the best diving spots and the most beautiful places with the tiered rice fields, the handicrafts of Ubud, the temples that rival in splendour, the walks on the foothills of the volcanoes, in search of the most beautiful viewpoints on the coastline. Non-diving companions fit perfectly into the discovery programme by having their own activities while the divers are underwater.
The small group of participants get together around meals in the local warungs and in the evening in pleasant and comfortable hotels. Several types of safaris are possible with different durations and themes such as muck diving or pelagic diving. [+]
- Different diving area
- Safari
- No equipment carrying
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Amoray Diving
South Africa
- Mbazwana
Amoray Diving is located in Sodwana Bay, South Africa and offers both training and year round diving exploration on the beautiful Sodwana Reefs. Departure from Sodwana Bay, one of the best dive sites in the world. The reef has an incredibly dense coral covering and a great diversity of fish and crustaceans. There are more than 1,200 listed animal species. Diving conditions vary from easy to difficult depends on the wind and the current. The depth of the sites ranges from 10 m to 30 m for recreational diving. Ideal for deep technical divers. Meeting with a Coelacanth in Sodwana, more than 100 m deep. Amoray Dive boats leave every morning for the reefs of Sodwana Bay, named according to their distance up to Jesser Point. Each of these reefs is a dive site with sometimes isolated reefs like Stringer and Bikini. Opportunity to get to 7 Mile reef, to browse around its north wall, with beautiful overhangs. To the south, mushroom-shaped rocks. The Amoray Diving guides take you to 8-Mile reef, 13 km away, with its incredible pinnacles, caves and cornices. Large Turtles, Sharks, Shrimps, Spider Crabs. Stunning colored corals. And Dolphins along the way. The must is to go to 9 Mile reef with a 25 minutes’ ride and see the 2 m high green coral tree with fish all around. Frogfish. Reef Sharks. Sometimes Great White Sharks. Possibility of accommodation at the Mseni Beach Lodge, in the iSimangaliso Park, in a lush forest with dunes overlooking the ocean, with morning and evening transfers to and from the dive Center. [+]
- Raggies Sharks watching
- Sardine Run
- PADI Training
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