We’re thrilled to have Diana Dulau and Mikael Lohmer from Dyk & Resespecialisten drop in for a quick visit on their very short Philippine tour. We hope to see many more guests from Diana heading our way soon, escaping the snow in Sweden for a tropical holiday in the Puerto Galera paradise.
While the sponsored head shaving has been a huge success for typhoon fund raising, hardly a surprise as anyone sitting in the Point Bar is going to be fully aware of the crisis in the central Philippines and likely to donate, there have also been some very committed efforts elsewhere. Continue reading
Congratulations to our newest certified PADI Divemaster, Shivantha De Zoysa. Shiv did an amazing job and finished the whole thing in style with back to back party nights in the bar. Time to go home for a rest Shiv…
We’ve decked the resort with all the Christmas trimmings and are getting into the holiday spirit. Rhuby did a fine job of making the tree look beautiful as usual, and now we’re all eagerly awaiting everyone to arrive for the festive time. Time to eat, drink and be merry!!
Thanks to everyone that has supported Asia Divers & all the Puerto Galera Dive Centers with the relief effort for Malapascua Island. The donations from PG divers alone are fast approaching one million pesos. Well done!
John and his father live close to one of the few freshwater wells on the island. Like most people they now live in a shack built from the ruins of their home. But, they can’t continue to live in a shack. They need a new house and this is what we are helping to do on Malapascua.
January 25-30, 2014 at El Galleon/Asia Divers
Join us for The Essential Underwater Photography Workshop with Mike Bartick. It’s for any camera, Dslr, or compact. This is what will be covered on a daily schedule: 1st morning is orientation and each day after: 7:00am is a photo review session before the eight a.m. dive. ten-thirty dive, Lunch, SI break, photo seminar and discussions, presentations aprx. 45 minutes, 16:00 dive, 18:00 night dive, dinner, evening – Photo slide show, discussion and critique one on one or natural history talk.
The Essential Underwater Photography Workshop includes:
Contact Allison@asiadivers.com if you’re interested.
Pete’s back from his live-aboard trip on the Komodo Dancer. Pete, David Warner, Jeremy Bright, Sue Smith, Gary Hadler, and Tony Weston enjoyed seven days exploring the amazing area of Alor, east of Flores. As usual, great diving combined with a fun group made the trip a huge success. Keep in mind that we’ve got a trip scheduled for Socorro, Rocio del Mar, April 30-08 May, 2014. Contact Tommy@asiadivers.com if you’re interested.
We’re thrilled that Bruce Jenner was here to earn himself a 300 dive club shirt with all of us and daughter Charlotte (Charlie). Good to see you back after such a long break!
It’s been a fun few days having the group here from Scubaguam (Manami Iijima, Nobuko Iijima, Sprute Zachary, Pete Peterson, William Marhoffer, Jimmy Roland, Frank and Clara Robison, Laurel Levy, Alice Leliukas, Stephen, Merry-Jane and Rosalie Wolborsky) Though it’s been only a short trip this time we hope to see Pete Peterson back again soon with more divers from Guam. We made sure to get them to Verde Island, the Canyons and of course some of the muck diving sites along with the usual beautiful reef dives.
Scubaguam.com is a website that is almost totally focused on diving on the island of Guam and throughout the western Pacific. It features the history of diving on Guam, over 75 divers sites with complete information on how to get there and what to do, and many related articles.
Scubaguam.com was created in 2008 by Pete Peterson, retired owner of a large dive on Guam. Pete is known throughout the western Pacific region both as a dive business owner and a diving television show producer.
Over the past four years the website, along with its associated Facebook page with the same name, has specialized and dive travel throughout Micronesia with main emphasis on the Philippines and Malaysia.
Thanks to Pete for choosing Asia Divers/El Galleon!
Well done to Alma Moreno, our super El Galleon waitress for completing her PADI Advanced Open Water course care of Instructor Matt Hubbal. Alma Chose Search and Recovery, Digital Photo and Nitrox as her elective dives.