Never heard about the Fluo-Night Dive also called glowing dive or fluorescence diving? 
Then you should head to DSM Dive on Gili Trawangan Lombok in Indonesia to explore the ultimate mix of Avatar and James Bond feeling in one dive...

Would you recognize some of the underwater animals who like to hide and camouflage themselves during the day if they come up in blue, orange, purple and other crazy colors during the night time? Sometimes those day-shy creatures stand out the most during the night time. This is one of the facts that makes the night dive so special.

If you light them up with special fluorescene light, they turn out to light back in neon colors. This comes from the proteins that many marine organisms produce that has the property to react to certain wavelengths of lights with a phenomenon which is called fluorescene.

In the case of marine life, the exciting light can have wavelengths in a wide range between (invisible) ultraviolet and (visible) blue, and the wavelengths of the emitted light are usually blue, green, orange and red, depending on the specific protein the organism produces.

What is glowing during the Fluo-night-dive?

All night active animals like jellyfish, clams, nudibranchs, cephalopods, shrimp, crabs, worms, fish, tunicates, barnacles and on the underwater landscape the reefs, corals, sponges, anemones…

Fluorescene is the absorption of one wavelength of light (or color) and the re-emission of another totally different wavelength of light (or color). Under the Ultraviolet light a fluorescent object reveals its true colors. It absorbs the blue and re-emits a fluo color, transforming the blue into a bright glowing color that looks like neon.

In other words - Animals, Plants and coral reefs that have fluorescence are able to convert one colour into a completely different one.

How is the Fluo-night-dive working with Dsm Dive?

For the Fluo-Night-Dive we will give you a special lamp with some kind of UV-Light and a special filter for your mask through which you can see the special colors. Vision is more limited than normal during those dives, so you should have a good buoyancy, orientation under water and some experience in night diving. 

How can you join DSM Dive for a Fluo-Night-Dive?

Call us, e-mail us or drop by at out DSM Dive PADI divecenters in Lombok and Gili Trawangan to get the dates for the Fluo-Night-Dive. Before sunset we meet at the diveshop DSM Dive on Gili Trawangan for a proper briefing about night diving, the fluo technique, the equipment and the dive site. At sunset we gear up and jump into the darkness - how exciting. 

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