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A member of the LLV dive team hard at work filling our scuba tanks

Behind the scenes: the compressor room

May 24, 2023

Ever wondered where the air in your scuba tanks comes from? How Nitrox is mixed? How every time you want a new tank, there’s just one there as if by…

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One of the sunken vessels at the Sabang Wrecks dive site in Puerto Galera

Down to the dive site: Sabang Wrecks

May 23, 2023

You want wreck diving? This site has four sunken vessels. You want sea turtles? You’ll probably spot several here. Like tropical fish? You can swim through shoals of them. Only…

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PADI staff instructor Ja Atienza helping a diver spot a tiny nudibranch on a recent dive

Why guests choose LLV: a valet-service dive experience

May 23, 2023

We provide nothing but the best and newest ScubaPro equipment for you. We assemble your gear and help you on with it. We have a fleet of covered speedboats to…

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A flamboyant cuttlefish in all its glory hiding among the sandy bottom of Montani

Down to the dive site: Montani

May 19, 2023

One of Puerto Galera’s hidden dive gems, the Montani site is a treat for macro photography and muck divers, with flamboyant cuttlefish, cleaner shrimp, nudibranches, octopus and seahorses aplenty

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A giant clam at the Giant Clams dive site in Puerto Galera (c) Joel Adams

Down to the dive site: Giant Clams

May 18, 2023

Gracing the bottom of the aptly-named dive site Giant Clams you’ll find a precious handful of an endangered species: the largest bivalve mollusks on the planet

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Alma Jane - Puerto Galera

Down to the dive site: the Alma Jane

May 7, 2023

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…

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Student divers in the LLV pool completing the Confined Water element of the PADI Open Water course

What is involved in a PADI Open Water course?

May 7, 2023

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…

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Map of dive sites in Puerto Galera

Puerto Galera: the dive capital of the Philippines

April 30, 2023

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…

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Peter and Mina Kane outside La Laguna Villas

‘We’ve done 12 dives, and been taken to 12 different dive sites. It’s been excellent’ – Peter and Mina’s story

April 29, 2023

“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 – they took us to…

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Lalaguna Villas Luxury Dive Resort and Spa Puerto Galera 4 week PADI Divemaster Program - What’s involved?

What does it mean and what is involved in becoming a PADI Divemaster?

March 23, 2023

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…

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