The MSY Seahorse and the Whalesharks of Kwatisore Bay

Tony Myshlyaev · Issue 92, Sep/Oct 2016 · pp. 53–57

Products mentioned: Subal housing, Nikon D700, Nikon 16mm f/2.8D, Nikon 24-70mm f/2.8G, INON Z240

At the mouth of Cenderawasih bay, northeast of Indonesia’s Papua island, lies the city and island of Biak. Here it must be noted that the title of “city” for Biak is used very generously as the size rivals small western towns that arriving guests are often accustomed to. This may be far from the whalesharks everyone comes to see but to spend an entire ten day liveaboard trip seeing the whalesharks is redundant regardless of how obsessed one can think they are. So trips that begin in Biak will often work their way their way to the inner bay of Cenderawasih bay where Kwatisore lies just northwest of Nabire. Guests will be diving notable destinations like the Catalina bomber plane in Biak, Pulua Putus, Miosnum, Spag Point of the Tridacna Atoll, Pulau Matas, Pulua Nuburi and many others. Otherwise, trips that start in Nabire may begin with the whalesharks and end in Biak or move onwards via …