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
You can become a SeaLifeBase collaborator. WHAT is a “SeaLifeBase collaborator,” and WHO can be one? In a nutshell, SeaLifeBase collaborators are the people who help us by: a) sending or alerting us to references and photos, which we have not yet used; b) assembling data from published sources using a preformatted template; and/or c) verifying or correcting data that we have extracted and incorporated into the information system. Some of them are — but not limited to — biologists, taxonomists, scientists, and other experts. Some are aquarists, photographers, businessmen, and marine-life enthusiasts. Truly, we welcome contributions from anybody who has a passion for marine life.
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
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.
You may have noticed that there was a lack posts with smiling candidates during the last IDC. No, it wasn’t because they were not happy, it was because they had asked to keep it under wraps so they could really concentrate on their studies. We’ll, all that study paid off today, so congratulations to Ian Diaper and Alex Siegel. If you have a keen eye you may have noticed a little give away in one of the photos, see if you can find it?
China’s National Day Golden Week holiday brought in 17 Open Water students and 3 Advanced students all here now enjoying the best of Puerto Galera! The pool has been quite the busy place with instructors dueling it out for time slots…
Yes we did it! Qianyin Luo, Hui Li, Xin Wang, Shaoning Zhang, Shuai Zhao and Jiahong Han completed full OW course in four days due to the tight schedule despite everyone had their own problem to deal with (work, seasickness, fear of water, too much orange juice…:-). Very glad to see everyone’s smiley face and keep the tough but happy spirit up guys!!! See you next time:)
Welcome back to “the Animals”! Every year for many many years this awesome cast of characters joins us for some great diving, distinguished birthdays and perhaps even some fun times in the Point BarJ. Here we have a group of happy “Animals” and friends (Tom, Zsolt, Larry, Russ, Helen, John, Robert, Rene, David, Terry and Pete) getting ready to head off to Verde Island.
It’s been a lovely sunny weather weekend in P.G. and we’re happy that we had some folks come down from Manila for the long weekend to keep the rest of us company. Getting ready to get wet are: Rebecca, Dave, Chen, Huub, Matthias, Bernd, Leanne, Gavin, Pete and Snake. Puerto Galera is 3 hours from Manila and makes it easy for weekend getaways! www.asiadivers.com
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