Category Archives: News and Events

Only fourteen days until Christmas! If you’re looking for a place to enjoy the holidays and not have to be the one to do all that cooking and cleaning, come and enjoy it with us. We will have delicious Christmas and New Years dinners, an underwater treasure hunt on the 25^th and of course lots of great diving going on. We kick it off with the kid’s party on the 24th when Santa and his helper will come and hand out gifts and then feed around 300 kids. Christmas dinner starts from 6:30pm onwards. Email admin@asiadivers.com if you would like to make a reservation.

This month’s superb cover photo of this weird and wacky nudibranch (Rudman’s Phyllodesmium) is by Beth Watson. Her images have been published in books, magazines, newspapers, brochures, websites and have been selected for juried art exhibitions. She is also a guest speaker at several dive shows.  Visit www.bethwatsonimages.com for additional information. The Monday News is Asia Divers/El Galleon’s weekly newsletter to keep you up to date on all the happenings, events and fun things going on here. If you would like to subscribe just email instructors@asiadivers.com

The resort is filling fast so if you’re looking for a place to enjoy your Christmas and New Year and not have to be the one to do all that cooking and cleaning, come and enjoy it with us. We will have a delicious Christmas dinner with lots to choose from, our chocolate fountain and lots of other special goodies. We kick it off with the kid’s party on the 24th when Santa and his helper will come and hand out gifts and then feed around 300 kids. Christmas dinner starts from 6:30pm onwards. Email admin@asiadivers.com if you would like to make a reservation.

Allan, Tommy, Alli and Rhuby will be at the DEMA Show November 16-19 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. As the annual trade-only event for qualified professionals, DEMA Show attracts more than 9,000 attendees and features over 500 leading manufacturers, destinations, wholesalers and service providers all dedicated to the diving, action water sports and travel industries. We’ll be with the Philippine Department of Tourism booth introducing folks to Asia Divers/El Galleon. Please drop by for a visit if you’re attending.

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.

Happy 60^th 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.

Thanks to Mat Watts for this absolutely amazing cover photo for this month’s newsletter. Juvenile Angel fish are so hard to shoot as they always are moving and for sure don’t like having their photo taken, never mind getting them to look straight at you. What makes this even more extraordinary is that despite the odds he got it perfectly lit and focused on the face…WOW!!! The ‘Monday News” is Asia Divers weekly newsletter which will keep you informed of all the shenanigans going on here. If you would like to subscribe to it please send an email to instructors@asiadivers.com