Category Archives: Diving

A big congratulations to David McCracken who completed his 400^th 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!

Welcome back to The British International School Ho Chi Minh. The group is already into the swing of things with a combination of some doing OW, AOW and Rescue. As you can see above, Jun Won Hwang is a bit “tied-up” at the moment with his Emergency first response course. We’ll have more photos of everyone in next week’s newsletter.

Welcome back to Magnus Wibling, visiting us again from sunny Sweden! He’s been having some great diving over the last week and has had his eye on those Scooters (Diver Propulsion Vehicles) or DPVs in the corner of the dive shop. Well he just had to have a go, so we took him to the Alama Jane, Fantasea reef, Sabang Wrecks and back, all in one dive.  If you would like information on the PADI DPV course please contact instructors@asiadivers.com

Johan Pahnke has done a great job completing his PADI Rescue EFR course over the New Year period, whiles enjoying lots of diving and seasonal celebrations! Help! 

Congratulations to Sheika-Mae, Estella and Sam Gibbs on completing their AOW course a great time and challenging dives. Estella also went on to complete her Deep Diver and Nitrox specializes too! Great job guys 🙂

It’s been wonderful having Ellinor around for the past while. She was very hard working and a lot of fun. Ellinor has such a great attitude and is the perfect role model as a DM. When she wasn’t out diving or helping the students you would see her in the dive shop helping out. She also did us proud with the snorkel test! Congratulations Ellinor Alexandersson from all of us here at Asia Divers.

We are excited to announce that Jamie and Sabine have taken over the Instructor Development (IDC) at Asia Divers with a new, modernized concept of the “eIDC”. For those who plan to take the next step to become a PADI Instructor, this program is focused on personalized coaching, more in-water rather than classroom time, marine conservation, and the onsite component of the course only takes 10 days.

Utilizing the PADI eLearning system as well as video coaching and other digital value adds ensure that our new instructors are best prepared for their professional careers. If you want to learn more about our fun filled eIDC, just drop a note to idc@asiadivers.com

It was wonderful diving with these two awesome photographers, Amr and Mariz this week. They have a great eye to find things and have perfect buoyancy while taking photos! Great role models for the underwater photographers! These photos were taken by Amr here this past week. Amr A. Abdul-Majeed, Lives in Jeddah Saudi Arabia. He’s been an avid diver since 2009 and became an underwater photography instructor in 2011. He’s also a senior member in Aquaviewksa underwater photography group. Check out his website to see more of his photos:  http://www.amrmajeed.com/

Despite a bit of windy weather the diving conditions have been awesome. Some days we’re getting 25-30 meter vis and the water is still a nice 27-28 degrees. Here are a couple nice photos that Chen took this week.

It’s always nice to have a group sent here from our travel agent WILD WATER DIVING HOLIDAYS from Belgium. Plenty of sun, great diving, wonderful food and amazing new adventures made the holiday a success.

Fernando was on a “mission” this week, exploring the reefs and wrecks beyond recreational limits, going deeper and staying longer, successfully completing the PADI Tec 40 course with Sabine. Great job dealing with 3 tanks instead of 1 and learning about decompression procedures, gas shares on long hose and other new skills and equipment to play with. Serious fun over a short 3 days.

Wonderful to have a sneaky visit from Jeff Barker recently and just in time to earn a 900 t-shirt!

Congrats to Annete Schultz who who got her 300^th t-shirt with Chuck, Troy, Herbert and Mikael cheering her on!