A few days ago, a dive instructor asked why I’ve only gone diving with Blue Mango during my two years on Boracay: They treat me like a family friend, not like a customer. Simple as that.
Went on a excellent dive at Friday’s Rock with a young Australian couple, Dustin, and myself. We back-rolled down the [...]
Sometimes, you just get distracted on a familiar dive and end up following the group, not giving a damn whats around you. It’s easy to do when you’re weightless. I remembered this picture and tried thinking of a good caption for it….. yup, that’s my random thoughts.
Went diving yesterday to Crocodile on the south-east side of Boracay in the morning. It was pretty good but cloudy so the colors weren’t out. Dropped on buoy, went down and out on the wall, wall back, up, and kicked around in the shallows at 10 meters. Next dive was to Camia II in the [...]
Is diving a sport?
Although diving is considered a sport, perhaps we should not think of it any more sporting than beach swimming. It’s a non-competitive hobby that doesn’t even require general good health. Of course, give a person enough boredom and they can turn anything into a competitive sport… like fishing.
Competitive sports are an objective, [...]
The single most annoying part of diving has got to be the buddy system. How can you enjoy diving if you’re constantly checking on your buddy and staying close, never stopping when you want or having to stop when they do? Really, I dislike it. I want to go look over there, or around here, [...]
Went diving yesterday after a few months off – and now, I hurt. Thankfully the water was nice and cool with overhead cloudiness. I really do know better, but of course failed to use sunblock.
It was a double dive with Blue Mango’s new instructor, Tom (UK). He’s spent the last 8 months with the Shangri [...]
http://www.gmanews.tv/story/155286/Arroyo-orders-Boracay-cleared-of-moss
MANILA, Philippines — President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo wants Boracay Island cleared of moss that gathered on the island-resort’s waters.The President gave the order after hosting visiting Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Michael Somare there last weekend, during which she noticed moss encroaching into the shoreline, a report of online news site Visayan Daily Star (www.visayandailystar.com) [...]
I went on one of my drunken snorkeling trips that begins with 10am RedBull/vodka and ends with sunburn. On the way back, I found some huge cuttlefish pretty near the shore. Normally, I would never tell anyone where I saw these (when its so close to shore), but only a few will know what I’m [...]
dive-monster.com – No Fishing in Boracay
GMANews – Boracay off limits to fishers
….The local government of Malay town in Aklan provnce [sic] has declared the waters surrounding the world famous resort island of Boracay permanently off-limits to fishing activities…..
….Report said that fishermen from nearby provinces such as Masbate, Antique and Romblon have been encroaching within the [...]
Brownout – massive one last night. Lasted from 8pm until around noon today. Sputtered to life a few times for moments. Electric company didn’t even know about it until people started calling them; then claimed a few hours later than nothing was wrong.
Weather on Boracay – The coolness finally broke and the sun came out [...]
Everyone here is happy the sunlight finally shone thru, even if it is still cool. We havent seen direct sunlight in weeks and the water temp even got down to a record 23 celcius in one dive spot. Personally, I’m thinking its still OK since its not ass-sweat-between-the-cheeks kinda hot. But once the summer comes [...]
Finally, I got around to finishing the dives required for MSD. Honestly, it should have been done a long time ago considering diving is the main activity on Boracay… but I’m usually too busy drinking and sleeping. All that’s left now is to fill in the electronic PIC’s and the PADI MSD form and Viola! [...]
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/view/20081030-169216/DoH-official-downplays-risks-to-divers
The only 2 points that story was making are not accurate.
Decomposing corpses in sea water most certainly DO carry disease. If this person is a medical practitioner, they should be immediately stripped of any ability to work in the medical field. They are dangerous. Corpses simply don’t sublimate in the environment… if they’re decomposing then [...]
I was sitting in Cocolocos yesterday evening (Boracay, not the resort island) and friend comes over telling how his illness cleared up and he could go diving again, unlike myself.
Then he says that out near Virgin Drop, him and the shop manager/instructor of Blue Mango diveshop saw a dolphin just under 2 meters long floating [...]
I completely forgot I had these pictures until I saw Jung post this article. Its about a sponge crab that took a plastic bag as its ’sponge’. This past month, I saw my first sponge crab (huge! carapace almost a foot wide). It was on a night dive with Dustin of Blue Mango. This thing [...]
DAN (Divers Alert Network) is possibly the most widely recognized diver insurance. Yea, they do offer other ‘normal’ insurance services but its primarily geared towards the extremely high cost of diving-related injury. Since there’s not a lot of those, its generally cheap.
If you’re traveling 80 km away from home, they even pay up to 100k [...]
..but he did it to himself by accident, with cyanide. Click below the fold for the whole article. (source link)
MANILA, Philippines—An American diver was pulled out of salvage operations at the wreck of the M/V Princess of the Stars in Romblon on Friday for numbness and shortness of breath, a suspected case of chemical exposure [...]
The only real accident was me blowing my eardrum at about 20 meters and not realizing it. The Camia II is a purposely sunken fish transport ship off Boracay with 6 or 7 years of growth on it for an artificial reef project.
We were going down and had some AOW students that were having a [...]
DSAT TecRec diving, or Tec Deep Diver, or DSAT, or Tec I…. or whatever you prefer…. I learned something, that’s actually tough!
All other PADI courses are generally designed so that it’s impossible to fail unless you simply cannot ‘get it’. Even the numbers, if you get them wrong on the test, no probs – just [...]
too lazy to update.. waaay too lazy, so here’s a bulleted list:
fly-paper sheets are an excellent deterrent for cats trying to get into your house, and funny as hell also
illnesses were going around the island for a few weeks, a few people got hit twice
been raining a lot lately on Boracay
the roof leaks in my [...]
Guess I haven’t been putting my diving in here. I started the Master Scuba Diver plan with Dustin at Blue Mango. I’m filling up on cert cards and getting Tech I at the end. His big thing is that I get plenty of diving in and know my skills for the specialty certs. It does [...]
jeeze, i feel like crap right now. came home last night and it started raining again so those damn roaches started coming in … but i forgot that the posion was already down and they’d die in an hour or so. my dumbass started spraying again and with the few drinks in me, guess i [...]
Went diving with Dustin yesterday at Blue Mango and enjoyed the hell out of it. I’m tired and just woke up late as hell. Was supposed ot be ther at 08:30, it’s now almost 11:00. I was up all night watching movies and CRAP I’m still tired.
Yes, I’m in a much better mood. Why? Easy…. I got myself an aluminum baseball bat. That’s all it took. Have bat, will travel. I bought 1 of only 2 for sale on the island. The other was a wooden thing that was made from a plank board – first hit on anything and it [...]
Today, I finally got back in the water again! Whoo Hoo! I had taken my gear down to Blue Mango a few days ago to get it back in the rinse tanks and check it over… re-seasoning it I guess we could say.
We had some really good friends come in the same day and [...]
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