Besides their tremendous diversity of body shapes and colors, the crustaceans of Lembeh Straits’ dive sites are remarkable for a number of other characteristics as well. While having a hardened exoskeleton (frequently fortified with calcium carbonate, just as with our skeletons) is great at providing protection from fish and other...
We are thrilled to welcome the BBC to critters@Lembeh Resort. The team just arrived and has been busy setting up their extensive kit which includes state-of-the art cameras, rebreathers and all kinds of cool filming gear. World-renowned for extraordinary nature programs such as Life and the recent 3-part Shark documentary,...
This week's episode is all about crustaceans. Watch as porcelain crabs use their delicate filter appendages to try to catch food floating in the water, and marvel at the sheer diversity of this family of critters ranging from box crabs (also known as 'shame-faced crabs'), porcelain crabs and slipper lobsters...
Divers and especially macro photographers in the Lembeh Strait who allow their eyes and camera lenses to wander to all of the weird and wonderful life forms that surround may be surprised when they find that the number of shrimps, crabs and other crustacean species in the Strait actually far...
Our eagle-eyed guides seem to be magic - where you might only see a bare sandy slope, they find a cornucopia of beautiful underwater animals to show you. In this video you first see these talented guides' eyes ('how did he find that?!', everyone says), and from there we move on to...