Tommy and Alli went to the DEMA show in Orlando recently. It’s the world’s only international trade-only event for the diving industry. It was a great opportunity to do meet up with all of our wholesalers in the U.S. do some business, learn a few new things, and to see some friends of course. Thanks to two of our 25th Anniversary photo competition winners for coming out to visit us at DEMA, Alex Suh and Beth Watson.
Last year Asia Divers launched “Movember” with Pete, Jamie Troy, Brad, Mazi sporting bushy staches to raise awareness and some money for men’s health. This Movember the guys have started to sprout for awareness yet again, but are combining the awareness with raising money for the Malapascua typhoon relief. A few nights ago the guys decided that “Mohawks” might be a good way to introduce the “Mo-ness” of “Movember” and to raise some money for Malapascua. The guys got their Mohawks and raised almost p20,000 in one night up in the bar! If you would like to donate to this cause please email Alli at instructors@asiadivers.com. We’ll keep you up to date on where your money is going.
Here’s some great news for all you folks in the U.K. and even Europe. Philippine Airlines will fly to and from London starting November 4, 2013 and will operate direct, non-stop flights, providing the fastest travel to Manila from London (average 13 hours). The five-times-a-week service to Manila from London will use PAL’s Boeing 777-300ER aircraft.
Check out this link for some good prices on PAL
http://www1.philippineairlines.com/special-offers/fly-london/
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 2nd stage, the Diaphragm MC5 and Cressi’s Ellipse 2nd stage.
Congratulations go to the following:
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.
