News from El Galleon Dive Resort & Asia Divers, Puerto Galera

More Blackwater Diving fun in Puerto Galera!

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While Phil Rudin was here conducting a photo workshop last month he managed to go out on just one backwater dive….and what a dive it was!! Here are just a couple of the photos he took in the Verde Island Passage in front of El Galleon Resort /Asia Divers.

 

He was using: Sony A7R III, 90 macro, two Inon Z-330 strobes, Nauticam housing. ISO-200, F/13, 1/250th sec.

We know that Phil is now eager to come back for more Blackwater diving with us! Keep watching out here for the details next photo workshop…

Check out: https://asiadivers.com/blackwater-diving-puerto-galera/ for information on Blackwater diving with Asia Divers.

More stunning underwater photos on Phil’s Instagram: @philrudinphotography

What’s been happening at El Galleon Dive Resort & Asia Divers

Allan is just waiting in anticipation for our new boat to be ready to go… were very close now. Checkout our new Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Mindoro-Sprinter-100292734654073/.

El Galleon Dive Resort Mindoro Sprinter boat

 

Four instructors joined in fun to get Jordan and David through their PADI Open Water course. Not that they need all of us…we just wanted to make their last dive something pretty special. A beautiful turtle decided to pose with us just to add icing to the cake. Thanks so much to Alan Dickson for always thinking of us and convincing the guys to do their dive training here at Asia Divers.

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Family diving is super fun! It’s always great to have the whole Lu/Lo family back here with us. We’ve seen the kids grow up right before our eyes and of course seen the parents stay young forever! Welcome back to CY, Bonny, Tim and Mary!

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It was a special week Mary to be able to do her Bubblemaker pool session and three follow-up dives in the ocean. She actually breezed through all the confined water skills from the Open Water course, just doing them for fun, and once she got in the ocean she had perfect buoyancy control…..all in two meters. The first steps of many more dives to come!

Check out the courses we can offer you and your family for a fun-filled family vacation.

PADI Recreational Courses

 

Nothing quite like having a birthday celebration in P.G. Happy birthday to Akiko who joined us with Sue for the celebration.

Elly is now under the wing of Jamie to get her up to speed on the DPV’s and get her certified. She’s geared up to do some more dives on it so she can soon teach this PADI DPV Specialty course.

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It’s always very special to us to have our previous guests keep coming back. Thank you to Sue and Akiko (who was not diving this morning), Kathy, Denny, Mariska and Lucas for coming back! Now go find those seahorses at Coral Cove…

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Phavandeep Singh, Sirendar Singh and Tony Munish Kumar Harjay enjoyed their “Discover Scuba” experience with Pete and his great assistants Ike and Gernie. Time to get certified…

https://asiadivers.com/padi-diving-courses-philippines/specialty-scuba-diving-courses/

Introducing El Galleon Dive Resort’s new boat – the Mindoro Sprinter!

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Look at our sexy new boat! The Mindoro Sprinter has just arrived from its maiden voyage from Manila! Super excited and we look forward to bringing our guests to El Galleon and Asia Divers very soon on this boat. We’ll keep you all posted when it’s up and running, but we’re looking at some quicker crossings to Batangas now.

Checkout our new Mindoro Sprinter Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Mindoro-Sprinter-100292734654073/

 

 

The sun is out and so are we! What a fantastic way to start the day…a nice cruise into the Canyons with just enough current to bring out the big fish, but not so much that you’re blasting through your air and your time. To top it all off we had a nice encounter with 4 very large bump head parrot fishes… with Robin, Gabi and Meinrad.

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Off-Season Special still available until August 31st 2019

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PADI Women Dive Day 2019

Thanks to everyone who came out to “Splash for Trash” to celebrate PADI Women’s Dive Day. We conducted a Dive Against Debris and some of us even got dressed up for the occasion.  28 kg recovered…and lots of fun!!

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What’s been going on at El Galleon Dive Resort & Asia Divers

Alli and Elly and Dave spent last week in Beijing at the ADEX Beijing Ocean Fiesta with the Philippines Department of Tourism Booth representing Asia Divers/EL Galleon and Tech Asia. We we’re excited to let the Beijing diving community learn more about what we have to offer.

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Long time family friends of Tommy, Daira Lovstrom and Freja Lovstrom came here to get certified. Both Ruben and Arthur jumped in and made it a fun course for everyone.

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Jason got all “trashy” as he completed the PADI Dive Against Debris specialty on the PADI Women’s dive Day clean up dive.

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OSM Ship Management PTE Ltd, Philippines, returns to El Galleon & Asia Divers!

During the weekend of 19th to 21st July, some of our regular guests from OSM Ship Management PTE Ltd, Philippines – Adrien and his colleague, Jerumel, returned to Asia Divers, for a packed weekend of fun-dives, overseen by Instructor Matt and Divemaster Cody.

OSM Ship Management at el galleon dive resort philippines

 

scuba diving in Puerto Galera with Asia DiversDuring the weekend, they packed in dives across some of our most popular dive-sites, including Monkey Beach, Coral Cove, Giant Clams and Sinandigan! In addition, they also joined Asia Diver’s “Dive Against Debris” in Sabang Bay, in celebration of PADI Women’s Day. Matt and Cody also managed to squeeze in an exciting night-dive with Sabine to Alma Jane wreck.

Adrien’s daughter, Lara, also joined the weekend and completed a Discover Scuba Diving experience with Matt and Cody. Great job Lara! We hope to see you again very soon in Puerto Galera!

What’s new in dive equipment at Ocean Dive Supply

Here is a piece of equipment with some new thinking, Finclip. To be attached to your Fins and you don them like you step in to the downhill skis, can’t be easier.

Check it out here and make sure you watch the video.
https://divesupply.com.ph/shop/diving/en/view-package/accessories/accessories/finclip/finclip-complete-15737#

 

ODS Dry bags. We have now our own line of Dry bags through Ocean Dive Supply Philippines (ODS) with a 20L dry backpack and Two sizes of the lightweight Nylon dry bag, 5L and 10L.

See the details here:

E-IDC update

Scootering through the DPV Specialty Instructor Course

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Boys and Toys… Sebastien had lots of fun scootering around our reefs and we actually found some amazing critters on the way… 3 very large stone fishes mating, a huge green turtle with yellow remoras attached, and at our safety stop we were joined by not one but two cockatoo wasp fishes. What an epic dive to conclude all his specialties.

That’s all for now from El Galleon Dive Resort & Asia Divers. See you in the next blog!

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Off Season Special Offer Extended until August 31st

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It’s been fantastic weather on the beach so far this month with lovely warm water and great visibility. Critter watching has been a real treat with all our reefs awesome verity, including an encounter with a large Eagle Ray on Monkey Beach by lucky divers Maria, Meinrad Wahl & Gabi Haar.

 

Looking for a quick last minute getaway…check out this fantastic offer

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Recent Happenings at Asia Divers

Well done Jon Woodhead, who had a great time doing his PADI Advanced Open Water course care of Pete and Kelly Walsh. Jon decided on Wreck, Naturalist and Night for his elective dives and also managed a dive with his Mum Sally and partner Pete during the Naturalist dive. Pete’s wish was to see a sea horse and we didn’t let him down. Awesome!

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Ashley Weier and Donald Ferguson had good mate Arthur Nash to take them through the Discover Scuba Diving experience and they both loved it. Art took them through the quick pool session, then out for a dive at Wreck point. We got a feeling they’re going to be back for their course sometime.

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E-IDC update

Yay, new PADI Instructors in the house!!

Big congratulations to all new instructors and of course especially to both of our Sebastian/ Sebastiens for successfully completing IDC and PADI Instructor exams. We are so proud of you!! Thanks for another 100% pass rate.

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Visit Asia Divers at ADEX Beijing July 12-14

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ADEX Beijing 2019 – Ocean Fiesta

ADEX Beijing Ocean Fiesta will be held in Beijing China International Exhibition Center on July 12 to 14. Alli and Elly and Dave Ross will be there at the Philippines Department or Tourism Booth representing Asia Divers/El Galleon and Tech Asia. Please drop by if you’re in the area.

We have some great accommodation and dive packages to show you and some interesting ideas for instructors wishing to bring their students here to teach them at our awesome dive facility.

Adex Beijing

 

July has started in the right direction with the sun shining and the awesome dive conditions continuing on. Tony, Warren, Paul, Pete, Rod, Michael, Robin, John, Phil, Elly and Maria spent the morning at Verde Island with just enough current to bring out the big fish and spectacular visibility to make it a great day.

Verde Island Scuba diving Puerto Galera

 

Get 20% off accommodation and complimentary breakfast this July!

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Thinking about a quick little getaway. Contact us to arrange your stay at El Galleon this month with a 20% discount on accommodation and complementary breakfast.

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Who’s been doing what at Asia Divers?

 

Congratulations to Jessica Loder who has become the 4th diver in the family. Arthur took her under his wing and now they are both super happy. Jessica is very excited about all the great things she is seeing and looks forward to diving with her family.

Scuba Diving in Puerto Galera at Asia Divers

 

Congratulation to Leo Church for earning his PADI Open Water with Ruben. Leo’s dad, John came here many years ago and did his OW course here as well. Nice to have another “Asia Divers” diver in the family!

PADI Open Water for kids at Asia Divers Puerto Galera

 

padi efr and rescue course puerto galeraRescue/EFR/lots of diving and a new t-shirt to go home with…it’s been a great holiday! Congratulations Paul on your 100th dive!

Allan and Tommy on the road again

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Allan, Tommy and Mark are on an amazing motorcycle journey in Australia. These photos are from Meekatharra to Mt Agustus to Tom Price over 850Km with 650Km being all dirt roads, such fun:-)

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At the Marble Bar Cup day

That’s all for this week folks! See you again soon.

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There’s still time to enjoy our July 2019 Special Offer!

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It’s a great time of the year to be here with the warm water, and not so many people around. We are still running our “Off Season Special” for July… 20% off on accommodation with complementary breakfast on direct bookings only. Contact us at admin@asiadivers.com or use the contact page.

Spectacular panorama photo of Verde Island by Beth Watson. It sure does make me want to be there right now!

You can see more of Beth’s images at:
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Welcome back ‘H”!

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It’s been great to have Heneage “H”, Peter and Philip Mitchell with us this past. “H” is a long time friend of ours and we were thrilled that he was able to come here with the boys to get them certified. Both Peter and Philip worked hard and did really well on their PADI Open Water course with Maria. A big congratulations you guys! It was also great that Snake was here to be part of the fun!

Happy birthday Rene!

birthday party at el galleon dive resort puerto galeraIt was quite the night in the Point as Rene celebrated his 60th birthday. Food, booze, family and friends…what more can you ask for! Thanks Rene for hosting such a fun night and to Leah and Jamie for preparing the food.

What’s been happening at Asia Divers & El Galleon Dive Resort?

Peter decided that he wanted to keep submerged and do his PADI Advanced course. Now he leaves here with another certification and quite chuffed that his ears are being cooperative!

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Diver, diver, are you OK? Paul and Peter are back and they just finished their Rescue and EFR training with Maria. The course was challenging and rewarding, plus so much fun! Congratulations!

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E-IDC update – Team “Cubicus” in action

July PADI IDC at Asia Divers in Puerto Galera

The June/July IDC has started and the team found a name already. “Cubicus” refers to the species of cute little Boxfishes that we all love to see underwater. Of course the name needed to be celebrated in the Point Bar.

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Off Season Specials at El Galleon Dive Resort & Asia Divers

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Book at El Galleon Dive Resort today and save 20% on accommodation and receive complimentary breakfast!

Now extended until July 30th, 2019 for new reservations. It’s a great time of the year to be here with the warm water, and not so many people around. Check out this great offer for the month of July!

Subject to availability. This applies to direct bookings only. Drop us an email at admin@asiadivers.com or go to our reservations page. Please mention this offer.

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Underwater Photography Workshop

Verde Island …. Here we come!

The Underwater photography workshop this past week has flown by! We’re already planning another workshop for next year and we’ll come out with details in the next while.

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In the meantime for those of you that might be interested in starting out with underwater photography, consider taking the PADI Digital Underwater Photography course with us. You can see all the details here.

 

In the meantime for those of you that might be interested in starting out with underwater photography, consider taking the PADI Digital Underwater Photography course with us. You can see all the details here
The week of the summer solstice has not been a disappointment for the big WOW sunsets. The colours are just leaping out of the sky.

 

Who’s been doing what at Asia Divers?

Congratulations to Marielyn Kamarudzaman for crackin through her PADI Open Water course and becoming a mermaid.

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Congratulations to Robin Chew for earning a 300 t-shirt this week. Robin has been hangin out here for a while and we’re glad that he got this milestone dive with us.

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padi enriched air nitrox course asia divers puerto galeraAsia Divers was delighted to welcome Adrien and Tina back to the resort this week for some fun dives! Adrien also completed his PADI Enriched Air Nitrox specialty course with Instructor Matt. Congratulations Adrien! We look forward to seeing you back here next month!

 

PADI Womens Dive Day and more!

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Come and join​ us for the weekend of July 20-21 to celebrate PADI Women’s Dive day! Book directly with us for a 20% discount on the room and we’ll also include complimentary breakfast.

On Saturday there will be a Dive Against Debris. All friends and family are invited to join of course…boys and girls. You can even get dressed up for the occasion! Why not try something new this weekend such as trying out Freediving with our PADI Freediving Instructor or perhaps a Blackwater dive.

Please contact us if you’d like to join: admin@asiadivers.com or send us a message.

PADI E-IDC update

Staffing Opportunity

If you are a PADI IDC Staff Instructor or even Master Instructor and interested in getting staffing experience with this upcoming IDC, you should be here in PG by 28th June latest.

This is a great opportunity to update your teaching and evaluation skills and participate in extra curricular workshops and marine conservation activities.

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More info at https://asiadivers.com/gopro/gopro-plus-plus/

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Asia Divers Underwater Photo Workshop begins!

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After many months of planning we’re super excited to see this day. Our photo workshop with two very talented underwater photographers Phil Rudin and Beth Watson has just started.

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The camera room is busting at the seams and everyone is all good to go for a great week of learning, shooting and fun. It’s very much a hands-on workshop with a chance for everyone to get some training on techniques for both in and out of the water. Mixed in with lots of great diving, there will be some presentations, lessons in Lightroom and of course getting to learn from each other. Very excited to see what everyone comes out with this week.

What’s been happening at Asia Divers?

It’s been 8 years since we’ve seen Dave Archer here. It’s been wonderful to have him, TasaneeJames and Kimmy here with us. Congratulations to James who has taken his first steps in diving on this trip, doing the Bubblemaker course in the pool and then out on some dives in the ocean.

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Justin, Camden, Elly, Elsie, Allen and Jackie can hardly wait to jump in to the 29 degree water!

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Perhaps some new hops in the works for El Galleon. We’ll keep you posted…

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Alli and Artur celebrating in the Sports Bar right after the Raptors won the NBA game. It was a very nail biting last few minutes. The flag will now earn its place in The Point Bar along with the other flags up on the ceiling.

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Great to have Murata back with a group of divers this week. He’s been a long time friend of ours for more than 30 years!

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Family holidays are super fun when it involves diving. Congratulations to Elspeth, Andrea and Madeleine for doing the PADI Advanced Open Water course. They all had a great time being taught by Pete and enjoying some great fun dives with him along the way.

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Elie is all good to go for his 100th dive.

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The 100th dive for Elie was at The Canyons with Alli, Ally and Sheila. Perfect current, lots and lots of big schools of big fishes and big smiles on everyone’s face.

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Congratulations to Lily who also did her 100th dive this week.

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E-IDC update

Freediving –  VIP visit by Jean-Pol François (JP) of Freediving Planet…

Jean-Pol Francois freediving planetSabine is back in PG and right away back in the water with Jean-Pol François (aka “JP”), founder of Freediving Planet to introduce him to Asiadivers for some exploration freedives around this area. JP is PADI and AIDA Freediving Instructor Trainer, Judge trainer and organiser of countless national and international freediving competitions – and also holds the national static apnea record of Belgium. It was JP’s first visit to PG and he was quite impressed with the dive sites, the facilities and the team.. So hold your breath for more exciting freediving news… something’s brewing… 😉

freediving puerto galera philippines asia diversJP’s friend Dyna was also visiting PG for the first time and took a few nice underwater pictures during the freedives… and she’s in some of them too.

PADI Career Advancement Opportunities

Visit our updated website for our professional scuba diving courses and your career advancement opportunities: https://asiadivers.com/gopro/

Final call: PADI Instructor Development Course starts on 27thJune

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Now is the best time to join our 10 days onsite IDC program. If you are a Divemaster with at least 100 logged dives, reserve your space and start right away. RSVP via idc@asiadivers.com

  • STEP 1: Start the eLearning component with PADI by following this link and choosing the “IDC online” option:
  • STEP 2 :The onsite part of the PADI Instructor Development Course (IDC) here in Puerto Galera starts on 27th June until 6th July with the PADI Instructor Exams on the following 2 days (7th / 8th ).

For more information about PADI Professional levels visit https://asiadivers.com/gopro/

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2019 Underwater Photography Workshop is about to kick off!

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Join us June 16-23, 2019 for our Photo workshop

There is still time to register for our photo workshop with two very talented underwater photographers, Phil Rudin and Beth Watson.

Photo workshop will include:

  • Hands-on in water mentoring with short slideshow presentations throughout the week
  • Learn about lighting, composition, camera settings, equipment and much more
  • Learn macro and wide angle techniques using fisheye and rectilinear lenses
  • Daily photo critiques, Lightroom and Photoshop editing techniques
  • Learn creative lighting and advanced photography techniques

See details here: https://asiadivers.com/2019-underwater-photography-workshop/

Contact admin@asiadivers.com if you would like to join.

What’s been happening at Asia Divers?

Everyone achieved their goal during this trip to Asia Divers –  Carole: 5000 dives, Leon: 4100 dives, Philip: 2200 dives, Stephanie: 1900 divesThat’s a total of 13200 dives between the four of them and a lot of it done here!! It’s always great to have these guys diving with us. They all have so much experience and such great eyes to spot some pretty amazing stuff.

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Congratulations to Kevin Shipley and Jaydon Beal who both did their OW referral dives to get their PADI Open Water certification and Kevin again went on to do his Advanced Open water course. When it came time to do the night dive, Jaydon, Dad John and friend Andrew Leutheuser did their Adventures in diving night diving so they could all go together. Awesome!

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Steve Simpson got a bit bored hanging out and not diving, so he’d decided do a PADI Discover Scuba experience. He did better than he thought he would. I think we got him hooked. Good Job Steve!

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Alli in Grand Turk scouting out a new wreck. She is wondering if she can put it in a big balikbayan box to send it back here…

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Off-Season Special Offer!

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Save 20% on any Room with Breakfast

Valid for new reservations from June 1st until June 30th 2019 (subject to availability). This applies to direct bookings only. Please use the booking form or email us at admin@asiadivers.com.

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PADI Outstanding Contribution Award

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Asia Divers is very proud to have been presented this plaque from Roger Sun, PADI Territory Director, recognizing us for our “Outstanding Contribution to Professional Diver Education” in the Chinese market. We are very proud of this and look forward to seeing more folks from China come here for their dive education from our professional Chinese Instructor team.

Please contact us if you would like to have a Chinese instructor for your diving course. Have a look at  some of the recreational scuba diving courses we offer.

What’s been happening at Asia Divers?

 

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Nothing like a Girly Happy hour at The Point Bar, with Elly, Alli, Sue, Akiko, and Sue.

 

It was very kind of Brant and Sandra to treat us all to a yummy Pizza lunch at El Galleon. Thank you so much! Enjoy your trip to Tubbataha and looking forward to seeing you back here again.

 

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We had such a fun time with the group from Scuba Monster. Their highlight of the week was a three dive day trip to Verde Island with a beach BBQ, plus to top it off a BCD party in the middle of the Verde Island Passage on the way back! With: Alex Cheung Pokkin, Chang Su Ying, Chi Yin Ho, Chung Yan Wong, Eric Lo Siu Ming, Hung Shut Kwan, Kwan Chee Cheung, Kwan Shuk Yi, Ming Lam Chi, Mo Tik Ki, Tam Kit Fung.

 

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Congratulations to Brant on your 300th dive. Now you have a nice new shirt as you head off on your next adventure!

 

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the point bar sabanbgIt’s been great to have Krystal Puxley from Adelaide Scuba here with us. She has been working in Manila and happily extended her time in the Philippines with us. There are not too many people in the world who travel with a dinosaur and can manage to do the “Stairway to Hell” with Jack Daniels and Coke only! Looking forward to seeing you back again…

We like to tell folks how long we’ve been around, but perhaps this will explain a lot!

 

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My scooter is bigger than your scooter!  Congratulations to John Stratford on completing his PADI DPV course. John was here for five months last year doing a Divemaster Internship with us, but this time he is only back for a quick three week school break. It’s been wonderful to have John back helping out in the dive shop and in the resort.

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John’s other duty has also been to take his dad out diving this week. Great to see Matt Stratford back here!

That’s all from Asia Divers and El Galleon Resort for this week folks! Be sure to catch up with our next blog!

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Scuba Monster, Verde Island, and PADI E-IDC begins

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Asia Divers welcomes Scuba Monster from Hong Kong

Very happy to have the group from Scuba Monster Hong Kong! Specialty thanks to John Ng, Jennifer Chu and Woody Tam who organized this trip. Great dives everyday and we hope to see you guys again soon!

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Scuba Monster got to “The Point” pretty much as soon as they arrive. We could tell it was going to be a fun few days!

 

What’s been happening this week at Asia Divers?

A great day to head off to Verde Island with Ruben, Elly, Sarah, Iain, Piet, Adrian, Nicolas, Brant, Sandra, Steven and Ralph.

dive at Verde Island Puerto Galera with Asia Divers

 

Going to Verde Island is a breeze with Asia Divers. Our comfortable, sun covered speedboat can get us there in 30 minutes…and before all the other dive shops get there so we have the whole dive site to ourselves!

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Tommy on Tour week 4 & 5

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Tommy and Leary got so busy riding the bike last week there was no chance for an update, so we will cover 2 weeks now…

Went to see our old friends Rob and Ning Clark just south of Yass at their farm Merryville Station where they raise Lamb. Great experience for the boys to see the life on a real farm.

To Sydney to see the team from PADI Asia Pacific with some serious stuff and a few beers of course.
Straight north along the east coast until they hit Cairns.

Over the Atherton Tableland to the Purple Pub in Normanton, oil change in Mount Isa, turn right at Threeways and just arrived in Kakadu National Park.

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PADI E-IDC update

Our May IDC has just started ! Stay tuned for updates…

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Everyone is so excited that the IDC has finally started and especially about writing exams on the first day… yay.

Stay tuned for all the fun updates throughout our 10 days program. Next PADI Instructor Development Course starts on 27th June 2019 with only few spaces left.

Register now for our popular 10 days IDC including EFRI. If you are a Divemaster with at least 100 logged dives, reserve your space and start now.

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