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TEAM SANCTUM UNA UNA

Our dive staff are all passionate about scuba diving and the underwater world. It’s not about the job, it`s about the life style and this attitude provides the top-quality service in Sanctum Una Una.  

Our professional dive team will make sure you will have the perfect scuba gear for your dives. Having right equipment will make your scuba diving experience unforgivable and this is what we want here in Sanctum Una Una.

Our team will provide you personalized training for your needs. We like to keep our teaching groups small to provide the best service that you deserve.

Our instructors are ready to give you the best training from entry level up to dive instructor.

In Sanctum Una Una we can provide your courses with PADI, ADIP and SSI scuba dive organizations. Our instructors have also a wide range of specialties to teach such as: Nitrox PVD, Sidemount, Deep, Night, Photography & Wreck and we offer the courses in multiple languages: English, Indonesian, French, Spanish and Finnish.

We want you to feel part of our Sanctum family and we are happy to share our passion with you guys. Sanctum staff is happy to welcome you to our remote island paradise.

Andriy

Co-Founder

Founder of the Sanctum Dive Indonesia who’s born into diving entrepreneurs. His family owns the first diving center here in Togean Islands called Kadidiri Paradise. From early age Andriy has been scuba diving with guest and he has a strong knowledge about scuba diving and the area of the Togeans.

Andriy is passionate about macro life and always happy to show the smallest creatures for the people. Andriy is a very bubbly person and he makes everyone happy around him.

He lives nowadays in Nusa Penida and runs the Sanctum Nusa Penida Dive Centre.

Andri is PADI & SSI instructor and has numerous of specialties to teach such as photography, deep, nitrox, night and drift.

Cedrick

Co-Founder

Our newest member of the Sanctum family is CedricK from France!

CedricK has a big passion for underwater. He has always lived near to the coast line what has made him passionate about the ocean and underwater world.

CedricK is an amazing company to exchange dive stories around the world. He has been diving around Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, New Zealand, French Polynesia, Cuba, France and Guadeloupe. He is always looking for new adventures to join.

CedricK loves teaching and he spent lots of his free time learning more about scuba diving. He is currently ADIP regional manager of Indonesia and he is also ADIP Instructor trainee, which means that he can also teach ADIP Instructor course here in Sanctum.

CedricK can also teach PADI and SSI courses until divemaster/***

CedricK is one of our sidemount instructor and he has other specialties on his belt such as  Deep, Nitrox, DVP, Wreck, Deco dive and many more.

He can teach in French, English and Spanish.

CedricK is one of the Ocean Quest instructors and can teach level 1 & 2 of coral restoration course here in Una Una Island.

CedricK loves meeting new people and discovering new cultures. Five years ago he had a magical encounter with a family in the mountains above Rantepao in Toraja county. The contact with this family is also a large part of his decision to move to Sulawesi. This family has adopted him for 3 years and he often leaves to recharge his batteries in this marvelous county and will give you all the advices to discover it if you choose to extend your trip to these mysterious lands. If he has the possibility, he will be happy to accompany you if you wish.

Favorite dive sites: Apollo & Karang Lemput

Read more about ADIP ITC

Link to the —-ADIP ITC courses

Anni

Co-Founder

Anni is originally from Finland, but has travelled around the world 10 years before settling into Una Una island 2019. First time Anni came to  Una Una Island was 2016 where she spent 7 months during this period in Sanctum Una Una.

Nowdays, Anni is one of the investors of Sanctum Una Una and lives in Una Una Island all year round. She really feels that the island is the home for her and she works very closely with the Una Una village community.

 

Anni has big passion towards the underwater world and different environmental projects that she is managing in Una Una Island. She teaches environmental studies in the school, has mangrove rehabilitation project with the local villagers, helping Support a local with distributing water filters, hosting the Celengan sampah ecobrick program in Una Una Island and is working very closely with Togean Conservation Foundation. Sanctum Una Una is also part of the Ocean quest coral rehabitalion program and Anni is a manager of the nurseries. Anni also likes to spent time in the garden and loves planting usable flowers around the resort.

Read more about the projects here

Besides all the environmental project, Anni truely loves the underwater world and she is Instructor with SSI, ADIP & PADI organizations and can teach also few specialties like: Nitrox, Deep, Sidemount, underwater scooter (DPV), Marine science and science of diving.

Anni loves muck diving and she loves to find the smallest creatures and to talk about underwater creatures with the guest.

Anni has been diving in tropical countries such as Indonesia, Australia, South East Asia and  cold water countries like Canada, Finland and the Mediterranean.

Favorite dive sites: Jam, Ihana & Barrenland

Fatur

Dive Instructor

One of our local instructors originally from the Una Una Islands. Fatur has been living and scuba diving in the islands of the Togeans and settled to Sanctum family in 2017 as a captain. Sanctum recognized his passion for underwater and slowly he gain experience and the levelled up to divemaster in 2019.

He completed his ADIP and SSI Instructor Courses here in Sanctum in 2021 and he can now teach courses in Indonesian and English. He can also teach specialties like Nitrox, DPV and Deep.

He is also part of the Ocean quest coral gardener and later in the future he would like to be instructor of this program.

He has also big passion for free diving and he is always happy to join with people.

Fatur wants to be a free diving instructor in the future – let’s hope he will reach his dreams soon!

He has his AIDA level 2 so he is always happy to buddy up with people and show the beauty of Una Una by freediving also.

“Atmosphere, wonderful colleagues, Sanctum programs makes Sanctum a very suitable place to work” are Faturs words for working in Sanctum Una Una.

Favorite dive sites: Apollo & Barrenland

 

Dila

Housekeeping & kitchen hand

She will look after your laundry, cleanness of your room and she will serve all of this with a huge smile on her face.

She also loves to help in the kitchen and she is a wonderful human being.

Dila started to learn how to swim, snorkel and dive with the help Sanctum Una Una staff members. She has a great attitude of always learning something new and she is very interested to learn the western style of cuisine, same as trying new recipes of Indonesian cuisine.

Dila is from the Una Una Island and has also been studying and working in Gorontalo. Dila was working in Sanctum Una Una before her studies and she returned to Una Una Island in 2021 and started working again in Sanctum.

Favorite dive sites: Pinnacle 1 & Jungle