Dear all,

After long time not being able to update fredericboch.com, I would like to present you the new pictures which are coming soon. It will start, as you have already seen, with a new gallery - Bali - Pemuteran & Amed. Pemuteran located on the northwest side from Bali and Amed on the east.

Amed wall - which I dove many times - and Tulamben are absolutely fantastic places for macro photography and the wreck is very nice. You just need to go a little earlier, you might have a lot of divers. It was a pleasure to meet again the staff at Jukung dive and thanks again to Reinier, Maarten, and Michiel for the organization and the perfect food which I nearly had every day!

Pemuteran was a new destination for me. I was really surprised to see the difference between west and east. The dives cannot be compared and both are very interesting. The close island Menjangan and the different dive spots offer to every diver, the possibility to discover many things like huge table coral formation and gorgonian fan in orange color. Current sometimes occurs, and allows drift diving with some big fishes. The macro world is very nice and I could discover many nudibranches and finally a Mandarin fish during the night dive. The point is that I could not make a picture on that dive, do not ask me why.... Thanks also to Captain Paul - Sea Rovers - and Abdul for taking care of my Dad during the few dives he did. Paul do not forget! you are still at 99! Guys do not ask, this is a small insider...

Also, the Gallery Maldives will be updated with some new shots, just have a look, this will come on a regular basis.

Enjoy the galleries!

Dear All

The year is just about to end and I am sending New year and Christmas greetings to all of you. Again The special Christmas buffet with the Club Faru team was like every year very good and late evening we got the visit of the “big fat man with a long white beard”…

As usual you did our underwater Christmas tree with our diving Guest. This year was again successfull.

Thanks to all for your support on fredericboch.com, especially my family and close friends.

So, guys, I wish you all again a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year 2010!

You are for sure wondering what is the number 5.000 doing in the middle of this picture. No, it is not the number of bubbles you can count in it but the number of dives I reached earlier today . Yeah! Finally 5.000 dives! I can barely imagine myself. These 5.000 dives cover 18 years of diving, and most of them were done in the  Maldives. The most important is that I still enjoy diving very much and I still discover something new every day.

Thanks to Jean-Denis Vincent, my first instructor, who brought me underwater in 1992 in Gérardmer, lake close to my place in France, and our local club "Joyeux Tétards".

Thanks also to Katrin, part of our diving school, for giving me the bubbles picture for my 5.000th dive.

See you soon on fredericboch.com!

Leaf scorpionfish (Taenianotus triacanthus) have venomous spines on their back and fins with a groove and venom sack. He ist very well camouflaged. You can discover them in different colors.

Most scorpion fish live on or near the bottom. They lie in crevices, in caves and under overhangs.

They feed on crustaceans, cephalopods and fishes employing a lie-in-wait strategy, remaining stationary and snapping prey that comes near. With their mouth they create a vacuum and suck prey in during a nearly imperceptible split-second movement (15 milliseconds).