Dietmar Amon is the owner and director of Lissenung Island Resort. He is one of the most experienced and best dive guides in PNG. What he can't find probably doesn't exist.
He is a PADI Staff Instructor and learned to dive in the freezing cold lakes of Austria. In 1996, he had enough of the cold and immigrated to PNG. Dietmar speaks English, German and Pidgin.

Nozaki is our Japanese Instructor and class clown. She looks after everyone here, not just our Japanese guests. She used to work in Madang and Manus before coming to Lissenung.
Nozaki is a great cook and lately, our menu has taken on a bit of a Japanese touch.

Ask her to show you the Japanese elephant!

Igua, Peni & Vulau (left to right) are our dive guides, making sure that you experience the very best diving whilst you are with us. They also act as surf guides during the surfing season.
Peni is the loudest of them all, entertaining the divers with lots of stories and even more questions. But all are unsurpassed when it comes to finding the right dive spot for the day, what the currents are doing etc.

Benson, Silas and Api (left to right) are our boat drivers, taking you out to the dive spots and looking after you and your gear. Whenever Benson and Peni are on the boat together, there is lots of fun happening. API doesn't speak much English, so he is usually quiet. But he does have a great sense of humour! Silas is our oldest staff member and we generally call him "pupu", which means Grandfather in Pidgin.

Rachel, Delsie & Esther (left to right) are our cooks, turning all the local seafood and veggies into the most wonderful meals.
Rachel is married to Peni, one of our dive guides, and they have two kids. Delsie is a divorced mum of two and Esther just got married.

The kitchen is never a quiet place, with lots of laughter going on almost all the time.

Margreth, Sivani & Unais (left to right) are our room attendants and laundry ladies.
Margreth is married to Benson, one of our boat drivers, and Unais is married to Vulau, one of our dive guides. Vulau and Unais have 2 kids, a boy and a girl. Sivani is still single.

Salomi, Damaris & Youngy (left to right) are our waitresses. They also help the cooks in the kitchen and are all pretty good cooks themselves.

Youngy is actually called Rachel, but since we already have one Rachel and this one is the younger one, we called her Youngy and now even in the village, they sometimes call her that. She is the most boisterous of the three, Salomi and Damaris are rather quiet. Maybe it's because they don't get a word in?

Chivas (left) is our "guard dog", the cuddliest dog in the world. He is part Labrador and part lots of other things. He always sings a little 'welcome back' song when the dive boat returns, although it's never in tune.

Missy is the newest addition to the family. We literally picked her off the streets of Kavieng on 4 April 2009 and she is very much enjoying her new home and all the attention she gets. She is quite mischievous and Chivas is quite taken with his new playmate.

Shrek is a male Eclectus parrot. He came to us as a young bird, but he has settled in very well and has just about taken over the island. When he is hungry, he comes to the kitchen, waddling in on the sandfloor as he can't fly yet, and with a shriek demands to be fed. His favourite food is banana, pawpaw/papaya and watermelon seeds. He talks a lot, from "Hello Shrekkie" to "Come quick" and "Look!", and don't be surprised to hear a big wolf whistle out of a tree!

Sora is Nozaki's cat, but you won't see her much. She tends to sleep either in Nozaki's bathroom, on the verandah or in our bathroom. She sometimes like to have a snooze on the day bed outside rooms 7 & 8.