12 Things That Keep You Alive Underwater (A No-Nonsense Guide to Safe Diving)
Diving is safe when you do it right. Here are 12 practical habits that separate smart divers from statistics, from a dive shop that’s been teaching since 2004.
PADI Courses
Advanced Open Water in Malapascua: Is It Worth the Extra Two Days?
Already Open Water certified? The Advanced course in Malapascua takes two days and unlocks deeper dive sites, the best shark encounters, and night dives. Here’s why it’s worth it.
Why Malapascua Is the Best Place to Learn to Dive in the Philippines
The Philippines has hundreds of dive schools. Here’s why Malapascua consistently ranks as the best place to get your certification, especially if you want your training dives to actually be exciting.
Your First Open Water Course: What It’s Actually Like (Day by Day)
Thinking about learning to dive in Malapascua? Here’s an honest, day-by-day breakdown of what a PADI Open Water course actually involves, no sugarcoating.
April PADI IDC
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 …
Tsunami Aid
Trevor and I have been lucky enough to meet and work with some wonderful people in the diving industry over the years. We have made many lifelong friends and have many wonderful memories. Sadly, the 2004 tsunami in Thailand affected many of them and had catastrophic effects on their health, businesses and livelihoods. Recently a …
November IDC
The November IDC came around very quickly and this time it was an all girl crew. The three ladies passed with flying colors, and as usual scored very well in the Instructor Exams, doing themselves and TSD proud. l-r: John, Yvette, Sylvia, George, Louise, Mike Yvette, Sylvia and Louise came to us from varying backgrounds. …
October’s Newest PADI Instructors
October saw another very successful IDC at TSD. Our three instructor candidates passed with flying colours, scoring very highly on their Instructor Exams. They were all pleased to note that they scored way above other candidates and only then realized how well prepared they had been made. All presentations were ones they had seen during …
August IDC
Our IDC started on August 1 with four eager but slightly panicky candidates. Martin with Petr and Mike getting ready to do skill circuits First up we had Martin, who is changing careers. He’s making a sideways jump from the snowboarding industry to diving and had been with us for 4 months already. He had …
Malapascua’s 1st IDC!
We welcome Course Director John Taylor and are proud to be the location for the FIRST EVER IDC HELD ON MALAPASCUA! John comes to us with many years experience as a CD and many successful students, including past, present and we hope future members of staff. David and Sarah are our first two candidates, with …