http://surigaodiveclub.multiply.com/ Scuba Diving has become one of the most popular outdoor sports in the world. We are proud to be part of the diving community and has just recently established the Surigao Dive Club, Inc. We are the only dive club in Surigao City and Surigao del Norte and we are very fortunate to live in an area that is rich with underwater opportunities.<BR><BR>Our membership consists of divers from all walks of life and age groups and a wide variety of interests -- the one thing we all share is the love of diving.<BR><BR>Visitors are welcome to our website and can email us at surigaodiveclub@yahoo.com.ph<BR><BR>Maradjao na pag bisita nijo tanan!!!!<BR><BR>Kita kita ra ta<BR> Tue, 27 May 2008 06:29:41 -0000 Tue, 20 May 2008 03:37:37 -0000 http://images.surigaodiveclub.multiply.com/logo http://surigaodiveclub.multiply.com 100 100 http://surigaodiveclub.multiply.com/photos/album/31/Tubajon_Dinagat_Island_Adventure_Dive Tue, 20 May 2008 03:37:37 -0000 Hailed us one of the worlds best jetty and muck dive spot. i was with my dive buddies - my wife Landz, Shauming Lo and Erwin Lim (two of the most serious U/W photographers i've ever met). thanks to Edwin Uy the owner of this private jetty (featured recently in Asia Diver Magazine) for letting us explore the http://surigaodiveclub.multiply.com/photos/album/30/Ducomi_Jetty_Dive_in_Dumaguete Thu, 24 Apr 2008 07:51:57 -0000 We had a blast in Balicasag courtesy of Southern Cruise, a cebu based liveaboard diving operator. Thank you to my dive buddies - Rere Dakay and her Mom, Mrs Dakay's personal DM Buboy Sarmiento, Erwin Lim and http://surigaodiveclub.multiply.com/photos/album/29/Balicasag_Dive Thu, 24 Apr 2008 07:20:18 -0000 http://surigaodiveclub.multiply.com/photos/album/28/Surigao_Port_Wreck_Dive Fri, 28 Sep 2007 04:03:36 -0000 Photos taken by Lyndon using the Leica http://surigaodiveclub.multiply.com/photos/album/27/Punta_Bilar_2007 Mon, 18 Jun 2007 10:57:40 -0000 M/B Leonida 2, with a capacity of 155 persons, capsized last Nov. 25, 2006 off Bilisan Point in Hinatuan island. Fourteen passengers have been confirmed dead while 18 others are missing. The wooden-hulled ferry, which was also carrying 300 sacks of cement and 18 sacks of rice, ran into large waves that damaged its bamboo outrigger, which provides balance to the vessel, and caused the boat to sink (248 ft down). The Surigao Dive Club divers voluntereed in the operation together with the Dumaguete and the Korean Tech divers. (caution to those who are sensitive, there are photos of cadavers) http://surigaodiveclub.multiply.com/photos/album/26/MB_Leonida_2_Sea_Tragedy_Retrieval_Operation_ Sun, 13 May 2007 06:53:49 -0000 M/B Leonida 2, with a capacity of 155 persons, capsized last Nov. 25, 2006 off Bilisan Point in Hinatuan island. Fourteen passengers have been confirmed dead while 18 others are missing.The wooden-hulled ferry, which was also carrying 300 sacks of cement and 18 sacks of rice, ran into large waves that damaged its bamboo outrigger, which provides balance to the vessel, and caused the boat to http://surigaodiveclub.multiply.com/video/item/1/MB_Leonida_2_Retrieval_Operation Sun, 13 May 2007 06:13:32 -0000 A UNESCO World Heritage Site. I was there last Holy Week, April 4 to 9, 2007 on board Southern Cruise. Tubbataha offers the best diving you are ever likely to come across in the world. The Tubbataha Reef Marine Park covers 33,200 ha, including the North and South Reefs. It is a unique example of an atoll reef with a very high density of marine species; the North Islet serveing as a nesting site for birds and marine turtles. The site is an excellent example of a pristine coral reef with a spectacular 100-m perpendicular wall, extensive lagoons and two coral islands. thanks erwin lim for some of the photos http://surigaodiveclub.multiply.com/photos/album/25/Tubbataha_Reefs_Natural_Park Fri, 11 May 2007 00:49:03 -0000 April 21 -22 , 2007 Photos courtesy of my dive buddies in moalboal - Rere Dakay, Sylvie Le Bot and Hitoshi Onozawa. (photo grab from rere's multiply site) We made 3 dives. One at the house reef 10m from the dive shop. The reef drops from 3m down to 40m and 2 dives in Pescador Island, famous for its beautiful, largely untouched marine life. The small island with rocky cliffs is fringed by a shallow reef 3-10m wide, then spectacular drop-offs plunge away to depths of 40m plus. The cliff faces are a mass of caverns and overhangs, the most dramatic of which is the majestic Pescador Cathedral, a large underwater cavern reached by a 15m wide funnel and descending to 35m. http://surigaodiveclub.multiply.com/photos/album/24/Moalboal_Dive Thu, 10 May 2007 23:01:11 -0000 Thanks to Judge Louis Acosta for hosting me (lyndon) and my brother Jojo together with Atty Benny Palamos and kids. The resort is located in Brgy Locloc, San Pablo,opposite Ligpo Island Bauan Batangas along Balayan Bay and two and a half hours drive from Manila through South Super Highway on scenic Tagaytay Highway passing through the town of Lemery, Taal and San Luis. My brother was the one driving and we met up with benny and kids at one of the super gas stations in SSH. http://surigaodiveclub.multiply.com/photos/album/23/Baun_Divers_Sanctuary_Dive Wed, 9 May 2007 07:44:18 -0000 Napantaw Fish Sanctuary, which is also known as Rio's or Toshi's Wall is certainly worth a visit for the diversity of marine life and excellent hard corals for your safety stop. There is a cave at 40m and we saw turtles, barracuda, groupers and batfish among others. As currents are strong here, coral formations are impressive with gorgonians and black and soft coral everywhere. http://surigaodiveclub.multiply.com/photos/album/21/Napantaw_Sanctuary_Dive Wed, 9 May 2007 07:00:20 -0000 These tables contain the predictions of tides and currents of Surigao. It shows the times and heights of the daily high and low waters of Surigao Port (09-47 N, 125-30 E) Bench Mark 3, Surigao City. It also give the times, velocities and directions of maximum flood and ebb and times of slack of the Hinatuan Passage. Current predictions are based from an average of 25 harmonic constants derived from at least 15 days of measurement http://surigaodiveclub.multiply.com/photos/album/20/Surigao_Tide_Current_Tables Wed, 9 May 2007 02:25:45 -0000 Thanks to you Mai for inviting me to dive with you in Malapascua. We saw tresher shark, white tip shark, cuttle fish, octopus, sea horse, jacks and a lot more. Dive Sites: MONAD SHOAL Home of the famous Thresher Sharks. Every morning the sharks go up to the shoal's cleaning station at a depth of 22m/72ft. There, they get their daily ritual of beautification courtesy of the Cleaner Wrasses. The shoal is 20min away, east of Malapascua. GATO ISLAND: An hour away heading NE, this piece of rock juts out from the sea. A fish and sea-snake sanctuary, it is also the lair of numerous White-tip sharks. You can peek underneath rock outcroppings to see "big, fat, lazy sharks" having their rest after a night of feeding. Nudibranchs, sea horses and lush, colorful soft-corals are spread all over the area. One highlight of the site is going into a short swim into the Shark tunnel where you can see silhouettes of the white-tips swimming around the exit of the tunnel. http://surigaodiveclub.multiply.com/photos/album/18/Mai_Lyndon_in_Malapascua Fri, 27 Apr 2007 05:29:37 -0000 Mai Go is an SSI certified diver from Texas. She visited surigao last Feb 2007 for some http://surigaodiveclub.multiply.com/photos/album/17/Mais_Visit_in_Surigao Fri, 27 Apr 2007 04:58:51 -0000 <FONT color=#3333ff><STRONG>Scuba diving is a special priviledge. It is a hobby of the brave, healthy and skilled. As a scuba diver, one would enjoy things that non-divers cannot. We get to watch fishes gracefully swim. We get to feel the sense of freedom of fishes glide and play. Fishes and corals are the main attraction in scuba diving. That is why it saddens me so much to see scuba divers spearfish just for the sake of killing fishes. As priviledged scuba divers that we are, we should strive to&nbsp;preserve marine&nbsp;life, instead of contriute to&nbsp;its extinction.<BR><BR>There is a whale of a difference between a fisherman who kills fish for food to feed his family and a scuba diver who spearfish just for the sake satisfying his adrenalin rush. The fisherman i understand, the scuba diver-spearfisher, i do not.<BR><BR>As a surigao dive club member, i vote for a total ban to spearfishing by scubadivers</STRONG>.</FONT> http://surigaodiveclub.multiply.com/journal/item/4/Say_No_to_Spearfishing_by_Judge_Louis_Acosta Thu, 26 Apr 2007 01:13:22 -0000 Lars Grepstad (<a href=http://www.grepstad.no/dive_surigao.htm><a href=http://www.grepstad.no/dive_surigao.htm><a href=http://www.grepstad.no/dive_surigao.htm>http://www.grepstad.no/dive_surigao.htm</a></a></a>) took this photos at a very poor visibility conditon. but look at these photos - its the best photos we ever had. (Nikon D100 - Aquatica Casing and Sea & Sea http://surigaodiveclub.multiply.com/photos/album/16/Basul_with_the_Surigao_Divers Tue, 20 Mar 2007 15:01:54 -0000 http://surigaodiveclub.multiply.com/links/item/1/Dive_Surigao_-_Lars_Grepstad Tue, 20 Mar 2007 14:55:39 -0000 Benito Ang, Judge Louis Acosta, Randy Go And Lyndon recently explored this shoal named as the George Shoal. this is just 100 meters from the shore line at a dept of 26.7 meters. amazing. superb. excellent -- photos by benito and http://surigaodiveclub.multiply.com/photos/album/15/George_Shoal_-_Newest_Dive_Spot_in_Surigao Tue, 20 Mar 2007 14:29:15 -0000 http://surigaodiveclub.multiply.com/photos/album/14/Olive_Ridley_Turtle_Released_Set_Free Wed, 20 Dec 2006 06:53:03 -0000 Come and join us in celebrating the very first christmas party of the Surigao Dive Club. Our benefactor the mayor of surigao, Mayor Casurra, is the guest of honor. pls come on http://surigaodiveclub.multiply.com/calendar/item/10004/Surigao_Dive_Club_2006_Christmas_Party Wed, 20 Dec 2006 06:40:47 -0000 Young Thresher Sharks Playing With http://surigaodiveclub.multiply.com/photos/album/13/The_Shark_Encounter Sun, 22 Oct 2006 15:29:07 -0000 Surigao Dive Club 1st ever Clean-up Day at the Surigao http://surigaodiveclub.multiply.com/photos/album/12/21st_International_Coastal_Clean-Up_Day Thu, 21 Sep 2006 05:23:53 -0000 http://surigaodiveclub.multiply.com/photos/album/10/President_Kiddys_Photos Fri, 1 Sep 2006 09:45:31 -0000 2 dives in the morning. meeting place at nonoy's place in http://surigaodiveclub.multiply.com/calendar/item/10003/Saturday_Dive Fri, 25 Aug 2006 15:18:46 -0000 <H2 style="MARGIN: auto 0in"><FONT face="Times New Roman">10 Myths About Diving</FONT></H2> <P><B>Don't let these common misconceptions hold you back</B></P> <P>&nbsp;<STRONG></STRONG></P> <H3 style="MARGIN: auto 0in">I have to buy a ton of gear just to learn.</H3> <P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Scuba is a gear-intensive sport, but you only need three basic items to start lessons--a mask, a snorkel and a pair of fins. These are personal gear items and they need to fit well for you to have a good time, so it's worth buying them even if the shop provides loaners. <BR><BR>All the other gear is available to rent, usually at a discount rate to students and sometimes the use of the more complex equipment is included in the dive package price. <BR><BR>Once you are a full-fledged diver, you will ultimately want to purchase your own gear. It will be tempting to max out the plastic and buy everything in one fell swoop, and if you've got the room on your cards, go for it. But most beginning divers continue to make use of rental gear and acquire their own items one piece at a time. </P> <H3 style="MARGIN: auto 0in">Diving is only for people who live in the tropics</H3> <P style="MARGIN: auto 0in">There are few things that equal or rival the ... http://surigaodiveclub.multiply.com/journal/item/2/10_Myths_About_Diving Thu, 24 Aug 2006 05:34:01 -0000 http://surigaodiveclub.multiply.com/photos/album/3/Surigao_Dive_Club_Divers Thu, 24 Aug 2006 04:23:09 -0000