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!

This is a bit of a tough one for me to write as I almost can’t believe that Jos Van de Giesen is leaving! Jos has been diving with Asia Divers for over eight years and has done many courses and 565 dives with us! I have great memories of finding the Rhinopias and Hairy frog fish on a couple of very special dives that we did together. We’ve often had some good luck dives! We will all miss you lots and wish you all the best in Norway. Better get a dry suit!!

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Last night was a celebration for our three new PADI Divemasters whome were all under the wing of Pete for the past while. Mike and Marecella Cooper have been here for over one month while Ray Villemarette took the bull by the horns and did it short time! In end they all left here as new PADI Divemasters with perhaps a wee bit of a headache this morning…

Snorkel test for three!

Well earned Divemaster shirts.

Great to see Dave Lee get his 100^th dive t-shirt this weekend, especially considering that most of those dives have been done here with us and with Sabine Henkel.

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A great time was had by all this past week as our group of 23 people from “Underwater Sports” in Australia enjoyed their time in Puerto Galera. As usual they got to see some fantastic stuff underwater but they also got to see the finer points of the Point! We’ve enjoyed having you guys here and look forward to seeing you again. Special thanks to David and Jolie Gordon for making this happen.

Congratulations to Reto Cadalbert who is our newest PADI Pro. Reto came here earlier in the year for a diving holiday and loved it so much that he decided to do his Divemaster course with us.

What a great time for the whole gang who came in for AMI’s reunion from all over Asia! This fine tradition has been going on for many years and we hope to see you all back next year. Thanks to Bonnie and Adrian Chedore got it all organized. There was a good combination of diving for some, hanging out on the beach for many, and of course spending lots of time at The Point for everyone. El Galleon put on a very special 60’s night on the Platform complete with the El Galleon Dancers, and a very talented fire dancer, and even with a wee bit of rain the night went off with a bang and everyone got into the spirit and partied the night away.

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