I spent all year looking forward to the return to Chuuk and this year’s trip did not disappoint. We had great conditions all week with calm warm waters, good visibility and clear skies. The Blue Lagoon Resort was amazing and the friendly staff were happy to have us bac...

Cocos Island is one of the most exclusive and remote dive locations in the world. 32 hours by boat from Costa Rica it is a hard to reach marine park, famous for being one of the sharkiest places in the world.

Simon and the Insider Divers met up in San Jose, the capital...

Once again we teamed up with our friends from GirlsThatScuba to organize a special scuba group trip to the Egyptian Red Sea. The itinerary would take us through some of the healthiest reefs and face to face with turtles, huge wrasses, sharks and dolphins. 

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Daniel Pinto has been diving with Insider Divers since our very first group trip and is one of our most regular travellers. And there are no dives in memory where he didnt have his camera. Dan has been to almost all Insider Divers photo workshops and has won awards on...

Insider Divers underwater photo workshop in Anilao Photo Academy with Simon Lorenz, Tim Ho, Wayne Jones and Pauline Wong.

Having just got back from the Insider Divers expedition to Tubbataha we are all still totally psyched about how many whalesharks we saw. On each on of the three atolls we encountered many whalesharks. Most of them were "social" as they turned around to swim back to the...

 We are extremely proud that Simon Lorenz, our founder and lead tour guide, has won the Ocean Geographic - Pictures of the Year "Photo Journalist Award for Oustanding Achievement" Award for his story on Julie Hartup "Manta Mom".

It,s the story of Julie who grew up...

My father always said everyone should have lists for packing. Turns out, he was right!

After numerous trips of forgetting important or annoying items I started compiling a list, that still grows to this day. It's bizarre how many things one can forget to pack, to do, to...

In Palau every dive was my favourite dive. And of these favourite dives, every single one was exceptional. The question is not, why would you go to Palau, but why would you not go to Palau?

Last year, sat on a dive boat in Hong Kong I was told ‘If you love sharks you ne...

This Insider Divers’ trip is unquestionably up there as one of my most memorable dive trips – ever.  The trip offered a few days extension over Christmas allowing us to kick off our Mexican adventure in Cabo San Lucas followed by Cabo Pulmo.  After that it was time for...