Category Archives: Diving

Thilo, Natalie and Celine have successfully completed their Open Water course and were lucky to see a turtle during open water training. In a business meeting half a year ago, Thilo asked Andreas to teach them how to dive – and what better place to do this other than Puerto Galera. Celines husband Yannick who is already a certified diver stayed with the group during the first day to get a quick refresher after having a few years without diving. It was a perfect week with a great group of students, perfect weather, great visibility and lots of diving. Especially memorable was the French wine and cheese that Yannick carried all the way from France.

It’s been wonderful to have Mike Palmer, from American Dive Zone, Grand Rapids MI back with us again. The group of 14 have had a great week of pretty awesome weather, fabulous diving, some fine food and good times in the bar!

Team Taiwan!

We always enjoy having Phil Hsieh from Scuba SHOP Taipei here. Phil has been coming to Asia Divers for many years and has also done some teaching at Tech Asia. This time he had a group of 17 divers in for 3 days of diving. The shop was very full, but everything ran smooth and the diving conditions kept everyone very happy.

The Kingston and Elmbridge BSAC group had a great week of diving and left with big smiles on their faces! This Hugy Cup group decided to get behind the lens long enough for Alli to snap this photo of them; Jan Steenkiste , Robert Bonje , Ilse Bonje , Peter Vanthuyne , Stijn Boussemaere and Dirk Crutelle .

Congratulations to Katy Boardman for completing her Advanced course here with Alli. It was great for her to finally get to see the Alma Jane and also be with her dad, Dave, for his 1111^th dive which happened to be perfectly timed to be in the Canyons.

Congratulations to Janne Bjork for his 900^th dive. He actually did it at Tech Asia, but as he has done so many of his dives here with us we felt he really earned this t shirt.

The Glam Glitter Girls, aka Dive Divas, (Veronique Ficheux, Sheila Cooke, Alli and Kimberly Nelson) bundled up and went diving at Dry Dock in 21 C – minus our last member who is warming up in Africa! Missing Stephanie Scawen! Drinks and a Birthday cake were needed to recover

Alan Beebe and “the Candy Man”, Arjan Kroon have been whipped into shape by Alli on their Rescue course with the very helpful and thankfully not so big victim, Ryan Beebe.

Nice to see familiar faces back with us again, Arjan Kroon (The Candy Man) and John Robson.  Also, happy to have Pat and Jim Stayer from the U.S. here with us this week. They’ve been busy doing a lot of filming and enjoying the Puerto Galera and Anilao diving.

Sabine is back for the CNY holiday.

I bet Every PADI Pro can remember their first dive. Albert Van Zuijlen and Gerard Kemmatook tried SCUBA for the first time with long time friend of Asia Divers Huub Keultjes. Asia Divers teaches PADI courses right from bubblemakers for the kids, all the way up to instructor level. We have a very talented and highly skilled instructor team here to teach you. Contact us at instructors@asiadivers.com if you need any information on diving courses.

Robert  Gilhooly was glad to do a refresher to get him submerged into diving again.

What a fantastic week of critter finding it’s has been with the Critterfest Group from the USA. Mike Bartick from Crystal Blue brought the group over for a week of fun, but it was not just the critters that were around, they had a great sighting of a Thresher Shark and 4 awesome dives at Verde Island where the very elusive Coral Cat Shark was sighted.

It’s that time of year again where the water gets a little chilly and the Thresher’s come out to play. Over the past 5 years it has continued to get better and better for sighting Thresher Sharks here at Puerto Galera especially during the months from December to April when the water is a little cooler.On Saturday Jamie led a dive to Kilima where there is a cleaning station and saw 3 Threshers all at once wow! Malapascua eat your heart out!