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[Media Release] Have you thought of working or migrating abroad ? Have you tried applying for work, visit, or migration, but got stuck? Then this is one information session you shouldn’t miss. Licensed New Zealand Immigration Adviser Carlo Santos and the Former Manager of the New Zealand Embassy’s Immigration Section, Rainier Sales, are set to [...]

The AquaShots Underwater Photo Contest is an annual activity that aims to showcase the beauty and diversity of undersea life in the Davao Gulf. (Recently, the Gulf was declared as a priority area for marine biodiversity protection.) It is a project of the Davao Reef Divers Club. A few years ago, the Davao Reef Divers [...]

One fear that I’m sure each diver holds is the prospect of panicking underwater. Even the most seasoned scuba diver will admit that it’s a possibility. The question is, how would you handle it? I’ve logged 122 dives so far, and in all those dives, I’d like to think I’ve been mindful of safety — [...]

To break the routine of weekend diving, I recently went with a dive buddy on a backpacker-style dive trip. Well, it wasn’t exactly “roughing it out” because it was just at nearby Samal and life’s comforts were ever within reach — but the point is, we hardly availed of them. The plan was to discover [...]

One of the “intro dives” I did back when I wasn’t certified yet was in the town of Maasim in Sarangani Province. It was at the Lemlunay Dive Resort, where a group of bloggers were hosted by the provincial vice governor and the resort owners. That was more than two years ago. Last 13 & [...]

Diving today was such a treat. Ever since I started diving in earnest (June 2011), I’d been wanting to see a pygmy seahorse for myself. Old-timers keep talking about it, about how rare it is and how fascinating. At long last, after four months, I did! And there were two of them in one sea [...]

Last Saturday, a scubasurero team from the Carabao Dive Center went back to San Juan Reef to remove the ghost net that we discovered the previous day. We did two dives at the site, but we were only able to extract about 60% of the offensive fishing net. Talking with fellow divers on the boat [...]

The Carabao Dive Center asked me to accompany two Japanese divers today. Of course I didn’t pass up the chance to go scuba diving, and I was really looking forward to it because we were going to San Juan Reef. This dive site, which is very close to the Hof Gorei beach resort on Samal [...]

To show my disgust over a proposed bill by a misguided congressman to outlaw planking in the Philippines, I attempted to plank atop a table coral last Saturday at the Coral Gardens. Unfortunately, a friend pointed out that one must be physically in con...

The Coral Gardens - once a dive site that made you think of the words "abudant" and "lush", but now an underwater environment that needs our attention...or rather our absence!