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Debra Gauthier was making it very clear to Alli... “this is what happens when you turn my air off and make me flood and clear my mask!” Refresher course done and now it is time to visit all the fishes in the deep blue sea!
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It’s hard to believe, but this year marks Asia Divers 30th anniversary. It just seems like we just celebrated our 25th! We’re going to have our Anniversary party the weekend of November 24, 25, 26th. More exact details will be published later about what will be happening, but believe me it’s going to be fun. Check out some of our “Oldies” photos on our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/pg/asia.divers/photos/?tab=album&album_id=158818000907642
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Jonas Knutsson, Patrik Korp, Ola Forsberg, Patrik Linder, Robert Thorsson, Orjan Viklund Staffan Ladestrand, Daniel Tiger Dahlstrom, Michael Kinder, Mia Braten, Patrik Ekelund and Malin dalstrom enjoyed getting out of wintery Sweden for a lovely trip to Puerto Galera. They enjoyed the beautiful reefs and sunshine and are now off to Chuuk to get “wrecked”.
It was very special for us to have PADI’s Richard Evans at El Galleon Resort Puerto Galera this past week. We always enjoy his visits and getting some very interesting information about the dive industry. Above photo shows him studying hard in preparation for his PADI DPV course. The second photo shows him and Troy out on one of their scooter dives, having a great time of course. Congrats Richard!
Soledad Navarro took this photo of the Juvenile winged pipe in the Clam area. It’s something you don’t see every day for sure. Here’s a bit of information on it.
Juvenile winged pipe fish
Scientific Name:Halicampus macrorhynchus
Family: Syngnathidae
Subfamily: Syngnathinae
Category: Pipefishes
Also known as Ornate Pipefish and Whiskered Pipefish. Found singly or in pairs on reef flats and sea grass areas, among coral rubble and algae covered rocks. This Pipefish has flaps along the dorsal surface (back) of the fish and under the snout giving the fish an irregular outline. Skin flaps and wings are more exaggerated in juveniles. Varies in colour from place to place. They feed on tiny swimming invertebrates which they suck whole into their mouths. Length – 18cm, Depth – 3-25m, Widespread Indo-Pacific. Pipefish are like seahorses in that the male gives birth! The female deposits their eggs after fertilization into the males pouch to incubate the eggs for one month before giving birth.
A big welcome to this wonderful group from China. Xiao Long Tan and Elaine started the Beijing Divers Club decades ago, maybe even the first dive club in China. Tan was Tech Asia’s point of contact with the National Museum of China’s Archaeological Dept, which kept tech Asia quite busy with over sixty technical courses when they trained their teams up to Trimix and Wreck Diver. Sam took them all to Florida for Cave Courses. Oliver (Jie Ao) was also one of that group. Last time we saw them was in 2014 when they flew Sam and Dave Ross up to Guilin to help with a cave project. Diving with us on this trip were: Ao Jie, Fei Lui, Xinyi Zhang, Xiao (Tan) Long, Yi (Elaine) Chen, and Sun Yanna
Congratulations to Anna Barker for earning her PADI DPV certification. It’s always a very special time for us when the Barker family is here as they have been coming here since both girls we’re just Bubble-makers. Pete, Jeff and Anna enjoyed the scooting around while Julie unfortunately had to be the supervisor on this trip.
Thanks to Marc Eeckhaut for these amazing photos that he took on his recent trip with us.
A big congratulations to David McCracken who completed his 400th dive recently. It’s been wonderful having David around for the past three months and becoming part of our Asia Divers family. Good luck in your next great adventure!
What a great week it was with the group from the British International School Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam. This is the 4th year in a row that they have joined us and we sure appreciate all the work that Lauren Binnington has done to keep this yearly event going strong. Six of the group did their full Open Water courses, two earned their AOW and we even had one who got their EFR/Rescue. Everyone worked very hard and should be very proud for what they have accomplished. They also had a great time visiting one of our local schools with some engaging activities to educate the children and joined in on an underwater clean-up dive.
Morgan Ditty, Mia Heath Dyer, Anna-Lien Juelsbak, Tue Minh Nguyen, Soo Kyoung Park, Juliette Robineau proudly showing off their PADI OW certs with Troy.