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Congratulations to the winners of the 2016 Ocean Art Underwater Photo Competition.!

Ocean Art is one of the most prestigious nature photo contests in the world, and the winning images represent some of the best underwater photographs of the year. Photographers from over 60 countries entered images, and over $75,000 in sponsor prizes have been awarded, making the Ocean Art prize value among the highest in the world.

Winners were asked to rank their prize choices and were awarded 1 prize based on totaling points from all their winning photos.

El Galleon/Asia divers was a proud sponsor of this event and congratulates Pier Mane who won our prize, a 7 night dive package!

Pier Mane, racked up placements in 4 different categories.  Here are a couple of his winning shots:

3^rd Place-mirrorless-macro

4th Place Reefscape

I also want to congratulate Gyno Symus who has been diving with us several times before, for getting a 1^st  and 3rd place in the completion. Gino was also one of the Hugycup winners a few years ago here. We’re always happy to see our good friends win some of these photo competitions!

1^st  Place Marine Life Behavior

3rd Place Reefscape

See more of the winning photos here:

http://www.uwphotographyguide.com/2016-ocean-art-contest-winners#winnernames

We hope you celebrated and enjoyed the night as much as we all did here. It was a wonderful time spent with family and good friends, and a night of fine dining at El Galleon. As usual everyone migrated to Point and the Platform to ring in the New Year with an amazing fireworks display put on by EL Gal and in the perfect position to witness all the other fireworks up and down the whole beach. Oh what a view! Things are off to a fine start and we look forward to seeing everyone here this year!

Always a fun time with Trevor and the gang spending the holidays here!

Always a fun time with Trevor and the gang spending the holidays here!

A first New Years Eve for Chuck in PG!

We ring in 2017 with this stunningly snooted photo by Mat Watts. According to Mat, this nudibranch took up most of his dive at the Boatyard in Puerto Galera, as he attempted to get the snoot in just the right position. For all you in the “camera know”:  Taken on a Canon 5D Mk3 with Sea and Sea Housing, Canon 100mm 2.8L Macro IS lens, Subsee +5 diopter and Reefnet Snoot. 1/200 sec at f/22, ISO160. If you would like to subscribe to Asia Divers weekly newsletter to keep up to date on all news here please send an email to instructors@asiadivers.com

Everyone has been having a fine time celebrating the season. We kicked off the festivities with our staff party on the 19^th and than Santa and his elves arrived at El Galleon on the 24rd and delivered heaps of toys to the local kids for the 26^th year in a row! Christmas dinner at El Galleon was a delicious feast by Antoine and the crew. We also did our annual underwater treasure hunt. Wishing everyone a very healthy, happy and prosperous 2017…and hope to see you here soon!

The games are the best part of our staff Christmas party and couple that with alcohol and everyone is in for a very fun time.