{"id":3628,"date":"2018-01-11T23:40:01","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T23:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.asiadivers.com\/?p=3628"},"modified":"2018-07-09T04:36:04","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T04:36:04","slug":"a-new-year-begins-with-lots-going-on-in-puerto-galera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiadivers.com\/technical-diving-philippines\/a-new-year-begins-with-lots-going-on-in-puerto-galera\/","title":{"rendered":"A new year begins with lots going on in Puerto Galera!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.asiadivers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/01\/jan18a1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3629\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.asiadivers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/01\/jan18a1-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"jan18a1\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been a fun week to start 2018 for everyone as they all got their PADI diving certifications. Congratulations to <strong>Kyle, Marcil, David, James<\/strong> and <strong>Alexandra <\/strong>for all their hard work over the holiday. They we\u2019re thrilled to complete their courses and then have a fun dive with no actual skills to do at the end of their training and to make a family underwater video. Luckily for everyone we had a very hungry turtle that was happy to have himself filmed for quite a while to become one of the film\u2019s stars!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.asiadivers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/01\/jan18a2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3630\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.asiadivers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/01\/jan18a2-300x234.jpg\" alt=\"jan18a2\" width=\"300\" height=\"234\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Divemaster Duo! <strong>Juliana <\/strong>and <strong>John<\/strong> teamed up over the Christmas\/New Year holiday to do their PADI Divemaster course. Not an easy job with so many options to stray off and enjoy the festivities, but they stayed focused and did it good!!\u00a0 Congratulations to you both. You\u2019ll be seeing more of <strong>John<\/strong> over the next while as he\u2019ll be helping out around the resort and also getting into leading dives by himself.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.asiadivers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/01\/jan18a3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3631\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.asiadivers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/01\/jan18a3-300x268.jpg\" alt=\"jan18a3\" width=\"300\" height=\"268\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s always a fun time to go out on a scooter dive! First time for <strong>Sheika <\/strong>\u2026.she teamed up with <strong>Pete<\/strong> and <strong>Trevor <\/strong>to fly underwater. Next time you\u2019re in PG ask one of our instructors about trying out the DPV.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Blast from the past photo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.asiadivers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/01\/jan18a7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3635\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.asiadivers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/01\/jan18a7-300x186.jpg\" alt=\"jan18a7\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Allan<\/strong> says that this is probably the earliest photo he has of himself with diving gear on (tank and weights were close by). Allan would have been around 13 years old when this photo was taken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a fun week to start 2018 for everyone as they all got their PADI diving certifications. Congratulations to Kyle, Marcil, David, James and Alexandra for all their hard work over the holiday. 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