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Stephanie Scawen has been diving with Asia Divers for many years and also did her instructor course with us.  Steph, Al Jazeera’s South East Asia correspondent came here with the production team in early June to film part of ‘MS and Me” and it’s now on air. It a beautiful, honest, strong and touching doco which shines a new light on what it’s like living with MS for sufferers and their families. Definitely worth watching!

If you can’t see it on TV you watch it here through this link:

http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/aljazeeracorrespondent/2013/10/ms-me-2013102482622778691.html

Troy was the leader of the pack, as he got the gang immersed in 2 meters of fun and adventure on their bubblemaker dives this week. Congratulations to Fin Bruce, Ruben Japp, Liam Henderson, Callum Henderson and also to Daniel Bruce who stepped up the PADI ladder by doing a Discover Scuba

Only 3 days after completing a Cressi-Sub service seminar in Asia Divers with newly qualified instructors, Andy Norman headed south to the Island of Cebu to conduct courses for dive shop operators and their staff in both Cebu City and Moalboal.

The initial request for this course was from the Lee Butler of Savedra Dive Centre in Moalboal who wished for his staff to be trained on servicing regulators.

So to make the course more open, Lee put the advertisement around the beaches and surprised us with another 4 resorts wanting to add their staff for the one day training course.

The result of the advertisement was 11 students from 5 different shops in Moalboal and 7 students from 6 different resorts in Cebu that took the course so was great news and good fun to conduct the seminar for so many dive shops..

Once again the regulators being used was the Cressi-sub AC2 unbalanced, the XS 2 2^nd stage, the Diaphragm MC5 and Cressi’s Ellipse 2^nd stage.

Congratulations go to the following:

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With instructor students finishing off their exams with IDAP collage, some went on to gain that extra qualification in the theory and practice of servicing diving regulators by taking the one service seminar on Cress-sub regulators.

In conjunction with IDAP courses held at Asia Divers, a Cressi-sub servicing seminar, that’s free of charge, is tagged at the end of instructor course for those instructors wanting to increase their knowledge in the area of regulator theory and maintenance.

Once again, regulators used for this course were the very versatile AC2 unbalanced with XS2 second stage that is popular in the rental department with dive shop operator, while the afternoon session students went into deep theory, strip down, rebuilding and fine tuning of the  MC5 diaphragm and ellipse second stage.

Special mention goes to Ruben, who for some of you my well remember Ruben worked in the Asia Divers service department in the late 1990’s so re-teaching for him was not too much of a problem..

If wanting to know more about this course that could be easily arranged to be conducted other locations in the Philippines, please don’t hesitate to email; andy@asiadivers.com

Congratulations go to:

Ruben Maranan of Asia divers
Marcus Black: Blue Ribbon
Fiona Gould: Blue Ribbon
Robert Coleridge.

Baolin Tan and his fiancée Shenyu Liu are happy to spent their Chinese national holidays to complete their Open water course with Andy and Miumiu.

宝林和小羽这对甜蜜的伉俪在海豚湾和Miumiu，Andy教练一起度过了这个难忘的国庆假期，他们顺利通过了Padi 的open water 课程！恭喜他们！ Continue reading →

Tommy has been on the road again representing Asia Divers-El Galleon at Inter Dive in Friedrichshafen, Germany. We’re hoping to see a lot more divers from Germany heading our way very soon as the colder weather starts to spread across Europe. After the Inter Dive Show, Tommy went to visit the Cressi factory in Genova. On the picture above from left to right: David Avalone (Export Manager), Tommy, Marco Cressi and Antony Cressi.

Check out the new bar on the Asia Divers dive deck! We know that the Point bar is only a few seconds away from the platform, but now with the new bar even closer to the boats, you can have a cold frosty beer in your hand just seconds after returning from your favorite dive site in Puerto Galera. So what are we going to call the new bar? Please send your ideas to instructors@asiadivers.com.

A big welcome to Susan Young from Island Dreams Travel. We’re thrilled that you were able to stop in for a few days and see the treasures of Puerto Galera. Susan works with an amazing group of folks back in the U.S. who do their best to send us lots of divers. We appreciate all your support!

A big welcome to Susan Young from Island Dreams Travel. We’re thrilled that you were able to stop in for a few days and see the treasures of Puerto Galera. Susan works with an amazing group of folks back in the U.S. who do their best to send us lots of divers. We appreciate all your support!

Look at our lovely crystal clear pool…Our IDC candidates are enjoying the great vis! Have you ever wanted to quit your job, live on a beach and teach diving? Well…this is the place to get you started!

Christopher Dillon put all the pieces together and finished off his Puerto Galera experience with a leisurely dive to hole in the wall, and who better to do this with than Ben Tuff, John Tucker, Eric Masters, David de Wolf, and Mark Bluestone.  Chris did his Open water course with Alli while the boys kept themselves entertained with some great diving this week. It’s been a big “Animals” week around here with several birthday celebrations mixed in with the usual drunken debauchery, but despite the late nights the gang has been hitting those 8 a.m. dives….well at least some of them!