Category Archives: Diving

Even though this is not about the Philippines, I thought that anyone who is interested in Scuba diving would be interested in this.

Introduced to life under the sea in high school through snorkelling, Yoji Ookata obtained his scuba license at the age of 21. At the same time, he went out and bought a brand new NIKONOS, a 35mm film camera specifically designed for underwater photography. He devoted all his spare time – aside from his day job – to perfecting his art of underwater photography. Then, at age 39, he finally made the transition. He quit his office job and became a freelance underwater photographer.  But even for a man who spent the last 50 years immersed in the underwater world of sea life, the ocean proved infinitely mysterious. While diving in the semi-tropical region of Amami Oshima, roughly 80 ft below sea level, Ookata spotted something he had never seen. And as it turned out, no one else had seen it before either.  Continue reading →

While Alex Suh was here Alli and Alex were on a mission to win a photo competition…and sure enough Alex did win it. He won a Ball watch with this photo… Alex nicely informed Alli that he owes her a timex! Ha ha ha

Check out the following youtube video that Jamie shot of a Sargassum frog fish, which was just at the end of our pontoon floating around!

http://youtu.be/wD1V8ndSpNM

The Averett family has been enjoying their diving in this part of the planet for a change. It’s been great to have Mark, Janell, and Sarah with us this past week. Sarah earned herself and very special t-shirt by doing her 50^th dive here…Congratulations!

Malcolm Hammer and Mark Connell have been working hard over the last couple of weeks towards there Divemaster certification. Both have completed Rescue/ EFR, Deep Specialty and Nitrox and are well on their way through the Divemaster course work. Better look out for a humdinger of a party when they’re finished!

Klein Scuba have had a great time with us here at Asia Divers. Not only did they have fantastic weather but dive conditions have been splendid too. All our critters have been around in abundance and a couple of trips to Verde Island put the icing on the cake.So a fond farewell to you all and my we see you again in the future.

Welcome back to Peter and Deb Webster from Vision Divers in Melbourne, Australia. This time they brought along a group of 25. It’s been a great week of diving and hanging out with this lot…perhaps too much fun sometimes?! With perfect conditions for diving, weather, sunshine and lots of quality time in the Point, it didn’t take much to please everyone and make sure they all left with big smiles on their face. Hope to see you all back again next year!

What a great week it was for the 18 students and three teachers from the British School Manila. Fourteen left with their Open Water certification, Four earned their Advanced, and we even got one of the teachers to do a “Try Dive”.  eLearning once again ensured that the kids got to spend more time in the water and no time in the classroom during their stay here. They all had more time for fun diving, a sunset cruise, and a big send off party on the platform. Thank you to Will Tibblits, David O’Connor, and Alexandra Van Lierde for organizing this very successful event. We can hardly wait until next year to do it again!

Our newest bubblemaker Oscar Collin is very happy to show off his certificate with his instructor, Mazi. Asia Divers loves kids and takes special care with the little ones. We have a bubble-maker course in the swimming pool and we also do bubblemaker dives in the ocean to a depth of 2 m for kids 8-10 years old. Kids love to get the chance to find Nemo!