Indo-Pacific Images

Don Silcock by Irwan Sandrady

Welcome to www.indopacificimages.com the website of underwater photographer and photo-journalist Don Silcock

The concept behind this site is to provide a portal into the Indo-Pacific region and it’s best diving locations, with interesting & factual descriptions of what is there, what you will see, when to go and how to get there.

I have been to all the dive locations at least once, but often 2-3 times, and only use images from those trips to illustrate it – so what you see is what I saw when I was there.

Some of my trips are supported by dive operators, but my descriptions of their operations are as I found them and I try very hard to provide a factual & balanced viewpoint.

Timor Leste article - X-Ray magazine

What’s New – Timor Leste Article: The latest issue of X-Ray magazine has an 11 page detailed article of mine on scuba diving and travel in Timor Leste.

X-Ray always does a great job of presenting the materials they accept for publication and I was really pleased with what they did with my Timor Leste article.

You can download the full issue of the magazine from the X-Ray site itself.

Alternatively you can download just the article from this site using this LINK – but, it’s a big file though at nearly 8MB…

The wreck of the Der Yang in Kavieng

What’s New – Kavieng: At the end of February I came back from a great two week trip in February to the Kavieng area of New Ireland province in Papua New Guinea.

I stayed at and dived with Lissenung Island Resort and Dietmar & Ange Amon really know the area well!

We had some great diving and it really is an exciting and very picturesque area to dive with a great mixture of large pelagics and wrecks.

More to follow soon as I get all my images edited…

Made Sadia on the bow of the Liberty Wreck

What’s New – Tulamben: I realized a personal ambition in early January and spent six days of intensive diving on the Liberty Wreck in Tulamben, north-east Bali.

While I have dived the Liberty Wreck many times over the years I never got the feeling that I really knew it well as I should do.

So with the great help of Tulamben Wreck Divers and one of their best guides Made Sadia, I dived the wreck several times a day for six days.

It was a great experience and it truly is a fantastic wreck even though at times the car park and beach are jam packed with dozens of divers!

Wonderpus at Air Manis in Ambon

What’s New – Ambon: I did a really cool trip in mid-December to Ambon in the spice island province of Maluku in eastern Indonesia, where I stayed and dived with Maluku Divers.

It has been nearly 4 years since I was last there and the new Maluku Divers resort is really nice and a huge improvement on the old one on the other side of the harbor on the Letimar Peninsular.

I got a lot of great images and conducted my first one-on-one photo-workshop with Jakarta based diver & photographer Irwan Sandrady.

I did several dives at the famous Twilight Zone and will be updating my location pages and image galleries as soon as I complete the review and editing of all the images.

Next Trip – New Ireland & New Hanover: My next major trip is in June and I will be going back to the Kavieng area of New Ireland province in Papua New Guinea, staying at and diving again with Lissenung Island Resort. We will also be spending several days in the New Hanover area, which is rarely dived and offers some exciting propects!

The trip is to complete the coverage of the area as part of my book project on Papua New Guinea and I am really looking forward to the trip.

More to follow…