Well it’s that time of year again… the water is cooling down and the extra layers of neoprene are coming out of the cupboard. But not all is bad, as the water cools down the dives heat up in a big way, with two amazing Thresher Shark sightings and a Giant Manta Ray in the Canyons! Check out the link to a great video made by our own Andy Xie: https://www.facebook.com/asia.divers/
Did you know that sea turtles don’t have sex chromosomes? Instead, sex is determined by temperature at which eggs incubate. In the case of green turtles, at 28oC, hatchlings develop into males; at 31oC the hatchlings grow into females. This has great implication in conservation.
To read more on the other six”wonders”, please see: http://sealifebaseproject.blogspot.com/2015/06/seven-sea-turtle-wonders.html
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Puerto Galera’s signature wreck, the Alma Jane keeps divers happily entertained. Although she has begun to collapse a bit from years of weather, she is still a most lovely dive. The huge school of resident batfish, a couple resident frogfishes, many lionfish and trumpet fish
If you’re on Facebook check out Rob’s video of the Alma Jane: https://www.facebook.com/calypso.multimedia
Come over for a “spooktacular night! Rooms are still available. Contact admin@asiadivers.com
Last Thursday Ocean Dive Supply Coron opened its doors and is ready for business. Come on in to check out products from Cressi, Waterproof, PADI, Surface Marker Bouy, Trident, Body Glove, Underwater Kinetics and L&W.
Sha Tin College left us last week but we’re still thinking about the great times and adventures we all had. Thanks to Alan Dickson for sending us this lovely photo. Miss you all! El Galleon/Asia Divers is the perfect place to host your school and/or company event. Contact instructors@asiadivers.com for more information.
China’s National Day Golden Week holiday comes to a fun filled end for Andy, Qun Qun and their group of very happy certified divers. 
Good to have you back Jing Chen (Jane) &Tao Chen (Leo)! Jane finished off her AOW course with an awesome scooter dive while Leo was feeling quite energetic to complete Nitrox, Deep and DPV specialties. It’s been super fun and looking forward for your return of Dive Master training next time:)
The excitement of completing OW course overcame the rainy weather–congratulations to Qimeng Mu, Hengyu Li, Zijiao Long and Yingying Fu! It’s fate to meet here and go through everything together as a team. This is definitely just the beginning of a long term friendship as dive buddies.
Happy 60th birthday to Allan Nash who is spending it at the “Desert Trip” with Arthur, Roscoe, Flory and Josh enjoying the great music of the Stones, Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Neil Young, Roger waters and the Who. We’re only a wee bit jealous!!!!!
It’s been a fantastic time for the group of 49 teenagers and 5 teachers from Sha Tin College, Hong Kong. They took part in PADI diving courses and activities in for the past week. In the group we had 17 new Open Water divers, 4 Advanced divers and 2 Nitrox. The Activities group kept busy with sailing, Extreme Sports, water sports, zip line and a trip to Tukauran where they got to enjoy the waterfalls. The whole gang also spent a day on Verde Island visiting a local school and having a beach BBQ and then we had a fun send-off in El Galleon with a cultural dance performance, fire dancers and a great band! Phew…that was a very action packed time for everyone! Thank you to all of the teachers; Mick Wilson, Wendy Ho, Katherine Turbett, Victoria Harvey who made the week such a success and especially to Alan Dickson for getting this all organized. Looking forward to seeing you back again in 2017! Please see the Sha Tin video produced by Rob https://www.facebook.com/Calypso-Multimedia-1720696354808939/?pnref=story. According to Rob it was once again quite an exciting challenge trying to fit 49 students, diving, sailing, paintballing, etc… in a 20 minutes film. The kids picked the music…most of it wouldn’t have been his first choice but it’s their film after all.
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