What is the Difference Between a Dugong and a Manatee?
Many divers are unfamiliar with Dugongs, but they recognize these creatures as manatees when looking through images. Find the difference here!
Things You Never Knew: 8 Facts about Dugongs
Dugongs feature highly on many divers’ bucket lists and are a marine mammal many of us want to see. We are extremely fortunate to spot them here in North Sulawesi but did you know that they are behind the myths
Michael Falldorf Images
Michael Falldorf and his wife Heidrun spent 18 nights at Murex Bangka last September. They had a great holiday and enjoyed both the resort and the diving during their visit. Michael started diving in 1986 and since then has traveled extensively
Story from a dive legend!
I take great pride when I look back on a mainly trouble-free diving career spanning some 45 years and more than 10,000 dives. Aside from a couple of minor hits of the bends and a few scary encounters with sharks
This time we did it all!
Sidney & Sabine Smith have been regularly coming to Murex since 2001 and were the first guest in Lembeh Resort, before it actually was open for guests. This year they took the whole voyage around North Sulawesi. Back again to Murex
Catlin Seaview Survey
The last few weeks we had the pleasure of having a research team from the Catlin Seaview Survey project as our guests, a scientific survey of the reefs of the world, funded by global specialty insurance company Catlin Group Ltd.