Philippines Scuba Dive | SURPRISING adventure !

View from my room. Going for a dive in about an hour and a half. The water is really calm so no problems there but it's just started to rain so I hope this rain doesn't compromise the diving conditions in terms of sediment you know washing into the water and that type of thing although we are going a little further away than what we would normally do. I've just been over to the dive shop they're setting up all of the gear and loading it onto the boat so I don't have to worry about any of that which I love. I'm just standing out front of the dive shop now we're getting ready all the guests are arriving. It's raining. They tell me that the diving will still be pretty good so I'm happy with that. They prepared all the equipment for me so that part I love as I mentioned earlier on love going to these far away Asian diving regions where you don't have to do anything yourself back home of course we have to do everything ourselves so anyway looking forward to getting in the water and getting wet seeing a few things. Let's have a listen to the dive briefing in here and see what they've got to say. This dive site is a sloping reef. Low rip? Slope. Oh slope sloping reef okay sloping reef yeah sorry thank you thank you. So they're all the dive sites there is a barracuda. Barracuda yeah. Electric clam. Electric clam yeah. Clownfish. Clownfish we need to see the clownfish Nemo. Turtles. Turtles yep. And second dive we're going to South Minilook. What will we see there? Possible to see there are schools of barracuda. Yellow snapper. And what about these two little people here are they going to be there? Fantastic all right what's your name again sir? My name is Kier sir. Kier pleased to meet you thank you Kier. Thank you Kier will be my dive buddy today and also my videographer so hopefully we'll get some footage and we'll be able to share that. You get up you get up thank you because booties too small here for me. Well the boat's now underway and the chief instructor there is briefing the first time divers so they're going in for their first dive which will be a lot of fun for them. I'm going in with one of the dive masters and we're going to be first in at a different reef and lead the way I guess so really looking forward to it. Boat's comfortable the water's pretty calm yeah couldn't couldn't want for calmer water you know it is drizzly a bit but hey we won't notice any of that when we're on the water. Hey skipper how are you? Thank you sir. I'm back from the first dive had a lot of fun down there swimming around you know the usual stuff clownfish clams lots of other marine life plenty to see hope he captured it all on the camera I kept having to tap him on the shoulder and tell him to bring the camera out and start recording because I think he was having too much of a good time himself as you do but very good looked after me well down there I have no problem with this dive operation the boat basically dropped us at a location where we could do a drift dive so it was a really easy dive maximum depth was about 20 odd meters so not too hard on the air and we did a deco stop on the way up we're down quite a while and the deco stop was around the reef so we were having a look around and it was pretty good so yeah all in all a good dive looking forward to the next one they've just asked me if I wanted a cup of coffee of course I do let's have that coffee you know me and coffee just coming back around now to pick up our intro divers and you can see that they're diving in some beautiful water over there there's a beach over there at the bottom of this island which is just off the El Nido township and they're bobbing around in the water over there let's see if we get a close-up of them there they are having a good time waiting for us to come around and pick them up but yeah what a great place to do an intro dive seriously it's still very very calm around here we're in the lee side of the island so you can expect it to be pretty calm here but you can see hopefully you can see down you might not be able to because I'm not using a polarized lens at the moment or a polarizing lens looking around here you can see our intro divers it's people that have just paid for a short introductory dive where they could blow some bubbles you can see them blowing some bubbles underwater over there hopefully if I get a closer look at that there's the bubbles coming up in there down under there and you can see some other ones there waiting to be we've just gone out a bit further into the deeper area where we can get some you know decent diving in for the qualified divers yeah now this particular island they call paradise island and you can see why it is truly spectacular it's an isolated beach area here some beautiful rock formations there and you know the shallows drop off fairly rapidly and it's pretty much used as a training ground for beginner divers because you've got the shallows as well as it can get quite deep if you move off the shore a little bit you also have the comfort of the shore should you want to return back to the shore and just sit around so we're going to move in a bit closer now and have a look at paradise island and see what we can find I think you'll be surprised what we find on paradise island they're telling me there's a monkey oh yeah he's walking along the beach over there okay he's uh looking very serious and he's coming over I'm gonna watch my bag as you need to do with these little fellows this guy's going to give him some fruit uh-huh ah now I know why he's coming over come on over he can't see it there he is coming up around the top here you can see it now here he comes and got himself some fruit beautiful absolutely beautiful don't you love seeing nature like that sensational what's the name of this island paradise island what a fitting name okay dive site for beginners yep welcome to paradise island there's nothing like finishing a dive and having a cup of coffee and just resting on the lee side of the island where it's quite calm boats moving a little bit nothing to be concerned about if you did suffer from motion sickness or sea sickness you wouldn't have a problem here the boat's hardly ever moving coffee's good and hot the thermos is obviously working these divers to finish blowing bubbles you can see the bubbles there more divers over there having a good time and what typically happens is you get a boat like this a dive boat mooring and they'll just offload the divers with the instructor with a dive master and they'll just have a swim or a paddle out here and you know just get underwater and have a look at some of the marine life those that dive know that some of the best marine life can be found in the shallows you don't need to go deep to find great diving and of course it's always nice to dive in a new location it feels like you're braving the new world or exploring something that somewhere you haven't been before i guess that's the nice part about it headed back just had our second dive absolutely wonderful this this dive was teeming with fish look at this look at this area through here it's absolutely beautiful and we're coming back on this uh dual 90 i've got a yamaha dual 90 yamaha speedboat this is certainly the way we go if you get the option to dive off this boat this is gonna make you much more comfortable than coming in on one of those larger boats that you can see over there right but you know we're diving over there earlier on diving through here the second time around and it was beautiful beautiful sora turtle and lots of anemone and clownfish and squid and snapper and you know everything you could possibly imagine is down there too much to talk about i'll let you see the video and you're gonna have a look right it's absolutely beautiful here certainly recommend it and i think the people in this area have done a great job maintaining this looking after the region right without destroying it through tourism