Dive instructor and resort manager Terry O’Dowd was out snorkeling on the house reef again and found this beautiful Banded Sea Krait just a meters away from the resort.
We are truly very fortunate to have such amazing creatures so close to us!
Terry was using the headstrap mounted GoPro video camera, which is incredibly easy to use and is available to rent for Scandi Divers guests to shoot their own videos of their underwater experiences here in Puerto Galera.
Congratulations to Satu Tiainen for completing her Peak Performance Buoyancy course with Scandi Divers Instructor Conan Fagan!
Scuba divers should be neutrally buoyant so they neither sink nor float, and it can be a tricky skill to master.
Divers who have the highest performance levels in buoyancy stand apart from others. They can glide effortlessly, use less air and ascend, descend or hover, seeming with no effort at all. They interact gently with aquatic life and affect their surroundings as minimally as possible.
The PADI Peak Performance Buoyancy course refines the basic skills you learned as a PADI Open Water Diver and elevates them to the next level.
You will learn how to trim your scuba gear so you’re perfectly balanced in the water, and move more smoothly through the water (reducing your air consumption), as well as how to hover effortlessly in both vertical and horizontal positions. Excellent skills to have in any open water diving environment.
This course is one of the many PADI courses available at Scandi Divers Resort, so there are many options for ways for you to improve you diving knowledge and skills while diving with us in Puerto Galera.
Congratulations to Katherine Magsino, our accounts manager here at Scandi Divers Resort. scandidivers. She successfully completed her open water course, with our diving instructors Terry O’dowd and Conan Fagan.
We look forward to Katherine joining us on many more dives in the beautiful waters of Puerto Galera!
Congatulations to Ollie Haapanen from Finland on completing his Rescue Diver Course with Dive Instructor Conan Fagan and Divemaster Dennis Frandsen. Ollie passed his course with flying colours, and his girlfriend Satu was kind enough to volunteer to play the victim 🙂
Scandi Divers Resort offers PADI scuba diving courses for all levels of divers, from beginners to professionals with many courses and specialities to choose from. We also have a wide variety of rooms to suit every budget, and are situated on one of the most beautiful beaches in the area, Big La Laguna Bay, Puerto Galera.
Our good friend and Dive Instructor Conan Fagan (yup, he’s an Irish lad) recently turned 29, so from all the staff at Scandi Divers Resort, we’d like to thank him for all his hard work and good times, and wish him all the best for the coming year!
In true Irish style the party started of quite civilised, but after a few beers it seemed that the cake was just too good not to be shared forcibly with everyone! A good time was had by all 😀
Terry O’Dowd, our resort manager and dive intructor bought a cool little GoPro video camera recently and took it out for a test drive while he was snorkeling in Big La Laguna Bay, just a few meters off the beach outside our resort, and found this great Hawksbill Turtle! The turtle is obviously not camera shy, and allowed Terry to get these great shots!
Terry will be taking the camera with him on all his dives now, and hopes to get lots more great footage of the amazing dive sites around Puerto Galera.
This easy-to-use camera will also be available for guests to rent (comes with headstrap) so they can shoot POV (point of view) footage of their own dives too!
A big ‘Thank You’ and farewell to Andy Pang and his fantastic group from China who were here to enjoy some quality diving with us, seen here with their guides Rico and Rey.
To celebrate another great dive trip, they threw a party in the Sky Bar on their last night, complete with a fire dancer, and a delicious barbecue dinner prepared by our chef Mark. It was a great night, and the only unhappy participant at the party was Porky the pig (who was delicious!)
Thank you Andy and friends! We look forward to your next trip here 🙂
To celebrate a good year and reward the staff from Scandi Divers Resort and Campbell’s Beach Resort for all their hard work, the resort owners took the staff on a day excursion to Tagatay.
Tagatay is about halfway between Batangas and Manila. This scenic city, surrounded by mountains and forrests lies along a ridge averaging 2000ft above sea level, overlooking Taal Lake, and the still active Taal Volcano!
The staff enjoyed horse riding, zipline rides, picnicing and souvenier buying, overlooking the spectacular scenery of Lake Taal and the volcano.
We’d like to say thanks again to everyone, and congratulations on a job well done throughout last season!
Next time you stay at one of our resorts, ask our staff about an alternate way back to Manila and go and visit Tagatay yourself. You won’t be disappointed!
