About us
Let us introduce ourselves: we are Joan Keijer and Eelco Nieuwenhuis. A couple from the Netherlands, we have been living in Bali for over 6 years now. In Leiden Joan had her own practice working as a physiotherapist and Eelco worked as a structural engineer. Throughout the years we have been coming to and even lived in Indonesia and the beauty of this country made us decide to move here. But what can we do for you if you plan to come to Indonesia...
For this we would like to tell you a little bit of history; we started diving back in Holland in 1993, and since then have been diving all over the world. A lot of the diving took place in Indonesian waters and for good reasons. We still think diving around this archipelago is on the whole, the best in the world. So we bought a piece of property on Bali near Pemuteran up north and we moved here with the idea to start a dive operation. But then some lunatics decided to blow up Kuta and we were forced to take another turn....
So we exported furniture for a couple of years and in our spare time became PADI dive instructors. We combined exporting furniture with freelance teaching in Bali, Lombok and Manado, Sulawesi. However, the passion for diving eventually made us reconsider and we decided to focus completely on diving again. In the mean time tourism picked up and new dive operations emerged, so we began thinking: it's not the lack of dive operations around here where people can go wrong. The challenge is to find the right one that caters to your individual schedule, especially when you want to combine diving with a tour around Bali or beyond...
We have been quite busy making this website (from scratch) so any feedback or suggestions for improvement will be highly appreciated.
Pictures on this web site are made by us or one of our friends: Ricky and Sue Ferguson, Topper Jeroen, Nathalie van Dommelen, Marco de
Leeuw and Marilena Burkhard; thanks again for your contribution!
Special thanks to Dr. Kees Keijer for the pictures on the 'dive courses' page and the medical advice given for the page 'other
travel info'.
And special thanks to Nancy Spearman who improved our poorly use of the English language!