The 60-ton wreck of the Alma Jane sits 30m below the waves of Lalaguna Bay and provides a home for frogfish, lionfish, schools of batfish and rabbitfish, garden eels, mantis shrimp, crinoids and all manner of hard and soft corals
One of our highly-trained PADI Instructors will teach you how to scuba dive in our custom-designed swimming pool and then in the open ocean, leading to you becoming a fully certified diver.
Some dive sites in the Philippines take days to reach even after you’ve arrived in-country, with island-hopping flights and overnight stays necessary en-route. But if you come to Puerto Galera you could be swimming with a sea turtle within three or four hours or touching down at Manila airport.
The Philippines is recognised as one of the most extraordinary diving locations on the planet, and nestled in its heart, in the Verde Island Passage at the centre of the Coral Triangle, lies the diving capital of the Philippines: Puerto Galera.
“We’ve been on 12 dives, we’ve been to 12 different dive sites. It’s been absolutely excellent.
“It wasn’t like that when we stayed at [a different resort in Puerto Galera] – they took us to the same place a number of times,” Peter Kane, 65, said on the LLV speedboat on our way back from exploring Sabang Wrecks…
The life of a PADI divemaster is an exciting and rewarding one, filled with adventure and the opportunity to explore the world beneath the waves. Lalaguna Villas Luxury Dive Resort & Spa, located in Puerto Galera, is a PADI 5 Star Instructor Development Resort where we offer a 4-week internship program for divemaster candidates to become fully qualified PADI divemasters.