Explore the Raja Ampat SEACAM Center

The first on the earth, the Raja Ampat SEACAM Center (RASC) is your final diving and underwater pictures vacation spot.

Dive the world’s richest reefs and take your underwater pictures to a brand new stage on the RASC positioned at Sorido Bay Resort.

As the highest Raja Ampat diving vacation spot, we’re positioned on the coronary heart of the Dampier Strait, completely located to discover the world’s richest reefs with biodiversity not like anyplace else. As a PADI 5-Star Dive Resort, Sorido Bay Resort is the right backdrop for underwater photographers on the lookout for their subsequent nice picture.

The RASC is effectively geared up with macro and wide-angle units for the Nikon Z8 and Canon 7D Markii. Resort friends have the chance to attempt a full set of our SEACAM tools for a day, and in the event that they’d like, lease them all through their keep.

Guests coming with their very own SEACAM tools can have the chance to discover our assortment of SEACAM equipment, together with viewfinders, dome ports, strobes, and extra. Our educated employees on-site might help you discover what you’re on the lookout for to take your pictures to the following stage in paradise.

Trained Photo Guides

We perceive that your dive information might be crucial factor of your underwater pictures. At Sorido Bay Resort, our dive guides have undergone coaching to know your distinctive wants as an underwater photographer, and can assist obtain what you’re on the lookout for, whether or not or not it’s macro or wide-angle. They will expertly information you thru Raja Ampat’s coral gardens, currents, and climate situations.

Underwater Photography Workshops

Gain unique entry to artistic and technical workshops, performed twice yearly on the Raja Ampat SEACAM Center at Sorido Bay Resort. The workshops are a singular mixture of hands-on and sensible tuition, all of the whereas diving excellent websites with the pioneering resort of Raja Ampat.

Each workshop follows 6-day curriculum developed and led by SEACAM Ambassador, Don Silcock. Regardless of your digicam tools, all underwater photographers are welcome to affix us, as we work to get your photos from ‘good’ to ‘great.’ Our purpose is to get every attendee assured of their abilities, making probably the most out of the tools they have already got. Attendees may even have the chance to attempt the SEACAM tools all through the workshop.

The workshops will cowl wide-angle, wide-angle macro, macro, and over & beneath pictures strategies. Each day consists of two morning dives, adopted by digital classroom periods, the place you may take all of the digital knowledge you captured and switch it into a picture you’d be proud to hold in your wall!

After the workshop, every attendee may even obtain one free two-hour distant teaching session by Don Silcock to evaluation photos, reinforce studying and common help.

Underwater Photography Workshops 2026

• Workshop 1: July 19-25, 2026
• Workshop 2: August 9-15, 2026

SEACAM Ambassador in Residence Program

The RASC additionally affords a SEACAM Ambassador in Residence (SAiR) program the place, for a couple of choose weeks all year long, a SEACAM Ambasasdor will accessible at Sorido Bay Resort for ad-hoc pictures steering. This steering can be customized to your wants and tools, providing you with an awesome likelihood to listen to and study from the perfect within the trade.

SEACAM Ambassador In Residence

Join us on the Raja Ampat SEACAM Center. If you’ve got any questions, e-mail our group at information@papua-diving.com