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Join divers around the globe for the second annual PADI Women’s Dive Day.

The inaugural 2015 PADI Women’s Dive Day event was a historic day for diving. In just its first year, PADI Women’s Dive Day featured events across 65 countries and all seven continents. Men and women from Alaska to Argentina, France to the Philippines enjoyed a day of diving together to celebrate the contributions of women to the sport. While the focus is on women, all are encouraged to get involved. It’s a great opportunity to get the women, friends, and family members in your life together for a fun day of diving! Alli will be around this weekend to encourage all you ladies to get diving!

Don’t miss out on Saturday May 14 when the band Spirits come down from Manila to play great music on the Platform. The Spirits founded by ex SNAFU member and well known for his music ability Colm Lane presents the Spirits great talent and musical passion. Tooting the tagline, “A World of Music”, The Spirits caters musically to all the various international society functions & events. With an ever evolving vast repertoire including the beautiful soft ballads of Whitney, Alicia, Pink, The Corrs, and Mariah to the edgy music of U2, Van, Bowie & The Beatles, to the up-tempo foot stomping Motown sound of the Temptations, Martha and the Vandellas to the great heart thumping modern dance music of Rihanna, Lady Gaga, Sia, with more artists added every gig… Truly a world of Music!

The Spirits are composed of: Irecel Docog aka ICY on lead vocals, Renz Magnaye on keyboards/vocals, Mason Ring on guitar/vocals/violin, Christopher Sanchez aka NOG on guitar/guitar synthesizer/vocals/bass, Colm Lane on keyboards/bass/vocals/mandola and Julius Santos aka JHAY on drums/percussion/vocals/bodhran.

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This month’s cover photo is by Allison Manis. Alli doesn’t get the chance to use the camera too often but sure enjoys it when she gets a chance. This photo was taken on Bonito Island and really shows how beautiful and colorful the corals are. Special mention to Beth Watson for letting Alli use her camera for this photo. If you would like to subscribe to our weekly newsletter please email instructors@asiadivers.com

Hail to the recent ADEX – (Asia Dive Expo) in Singapore that generated about 57,000+ visitors! Thanks to so many of our friends for dropping by to say hello to us at the Philippines Department of Tourism booth. We’re looking forward to seeing many more divers from Singapore and Asia here.

The Instructor Development at Asia Divers is taking a turn to the electronic world with the eIDC… Less time sitting in the classroom and more time in the water, you can sign up to the PADI IDC eLearning and start your path to becoming a Dive Instructor.

Click on this link https://apps.padi.com/scuba-diving/elearning/?irra=2736 follow the instructions and start you’re most exciting career, today!

Allan, Tommy and Alli will be at ADEX in Singapore this coming weekend. Please drop by the Philippine Department of Tourism booth CO1-08 at Suntec Singapore Convention & Exhibition Centre, Level 4, Halls 401 – 403, 1 Raffles Boulevard, Suntec City. ADEX is the longest running and the largest dive expo in Asia celebrating its 21st year in 2016. A must-attend event for anyone interested or involved in the world of diving.

Sign up for your Dive Master or Instructor course with Asia Divers at ADEX and get the Digital UW Photography Instructor specialty for no extra cost. This Instructor Specialty can be taught and obtained even by Dive Masters!

This month’s cover shot for our weekly newsletter of the Alma Jane wreck is by Luc Eeckhaut Winner of the HUGYCUP 2014/2015. Asia Divers hosted the event over a two month period from Feb to April 2015. It was great to see the results of the competition and it’s a wonderful showcase for Puerto Galera’s amazing marine biodiversity. You can see more of his photos on the HUGYCUP website: http://2014.hugycup.com/competition/the-hugycup/portfolio-1st-place

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Alli is back from the DRT show in Shanghai. It was wonderful to meet up with our past students, and divers and we’re looking forward to seeing you and your friends here. A very special Thank you to Qun Qun and Frani for all the help at the show. We look forward to seeing many divers from China in our resort soon.

A huge congratulations goes out to Charmaine Chow and Stanley Chow who just got married in the best conditions possible ‘Underwater’.  Yes that’s right we conducted a mock under water wedding with a priest, the groom and the bride all on scuba. It was a fantastic day with expert under water videographer Rob Jacobs and professional under water photographer Maziar Momtazi. Now you have these underwater memories saved forever, not only on video and photo but also in your hearts. All the staff here at Asia Divers whish you the best of life together and hope you continue to make those under water adventures as the best buddy team there can be.

The Dubai American Academy has spent the past week here with kids doing diving courses or learning sailing. Along with that they also got to experience many other wonderful aspects of the Philippines. Five kids and one teacher completed their PADI Open Water course, six kids and one teacher did their PADI Advanced course and 23 learned to sail.  A big thank you to all the teachers; Hardy Fichardt, Teresa Cantu, Ryan Erickson, Jibola Ajayi, and Ruby Bergonia who made things run so smooth for us. We look forward to our tenth anniversary with you next year!

Here are the proud DAA Sailors showing off their certificates. The kids learned to sail through the Puerto Galera Yacht Club thanks to Bob Johnson, Daryl Calbert along with their whole team.  They also enjoyed a day of sightseeing around the area by jeepney.

DAA visited a school at Verde Island as part of their community service activity. They had a great day with the kids! We had Frank Devriese our paraplegic diver joining us with a lot of interaction with the kids (Frank is a reading teacher back in Belgium) and with a lot of help from the boatman and the kids, we managed to get him up the stairs and over walls to get him around the island. It was also interesting with a little help from the Perth Subiaco Rotary Club, we managed to donate a generator for the school. The old generator they had was on its last legs, it was in fact broken for months, they did get it going but it struggled to keep running, so when we arrived with a generator they were very excited. Not only that, we managed to simply plug the new generator in and turn the key and away it went. The DAA donated a lot of school supplies and clothing, all well received by the school. The kids then broke into groups of six and went off to different grade rooms and played games with the different classes. It was very good to see the way the kids interacted with one another. Finally it was time to leave, so all kids came out of the classrooms and started playing games outside, then it was a big farewell with a group photo and off we went, Frank and all, to the shelters on the beach where we had a wonderful BBQ, games on the beach, lots of fun before leaving to head back to El Galleon.