Summer this year has been a bumper season for PADI IDC’s at Thresher Shark Divers. They have been running back-to-back through June, July and August. June June was a surprise one. With quite a few maybe’s interested in our June IDC Special, but eventually no takers, we decided to cancel it. Then the next day, who should …
Recently we had the pleasure of a visit from Hugh Ross from Guam. He came bearing gifts of red wine and cheese (so was an immediate hit with your intrepid writer), and left us with some amazing photographs: Octopus Ornate Ghost Pipefish Flatworm Pygmy Seahorse Thresher Shark Generous to a fault, on his last night, …
At Thresher Shark Divers we always strive to be the best in everything we do and so we were over the moon to be recognized again in the PADI Annual Awards. This year we were awarded finalist in two out of the five categories: the Project AWARE Conservation Award and the Outstanding Dive Center Business …
Our April PADI IDC was our usual success, and star candidates Karlis, Dustin and Henrik sailed through getting high marks and keeping up TSD’s perfect record of 100% first time pass in the PADI Dive Instructor Course. L-R: George Wegmann (PADI Instructor Examiner), Dustin, Mike (CD), Karlis, Henrik This IDC was definitely a fun one …
That’s (almost) our name, don’t wear it out! The last two months on Monad Shoal have just been crazy, crazy, crazy, with big stuff absolutely everywhere. All our divers have been coming back every day with huge, beaming smiles and great photos. To start with, there have been plenty of thresher sharks to go around. …
This blog is ostensibly a diving blog, but our lives here are, by necessity, intertwined with local life and the local community so today’s entry will focus on them. As you know if you have been here, the local community is very poor. The Philippines itself has huge problems with poverty. Wealth is concentrated in …
After years of planning and procrastinating, we have finally launched our newsletter! If you are interested in receiving our regular updates, you can sign up here: http://www.malapascua-diving.com/newsletters/newsletter.html Updates will be sent quarterly so they are sure to be packed with loads of interesting reads and it is easy to unsubscribe if ever you so choose.
It’s been a long hard road for us on Malapascua. Living on a heap of sand in the middle of the Pacific (as my mother puts it) is all well and good, but it tends to lack those creature comforts. Looks beautiful, right? And it is. But this tiny island, only 2 km long, is …
Malapascua finally joins the 20th Century, maybe even the 21st… Read More »
Oscar’s restaurant above TSD has been open for 15 months already and has gone from strength to strength. The food has been consistently amazing and continues to astonish us with its all-out yumminess. But we always want to improve and for the last few months we have been looking for a new chef to move …
Yesterday, TSD was proud to receive word that we have been awarded the 2009 PADI Project Aware Environmental Achievement Award for “exemplary efforts to conserve aquatic environments through education, advocacy and action.” This is hot on the heels of our recent visit last week to the local school to hold a Project Aware Kids event. …
