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What is the difference between a Divemaster and an Instructor?

June 25, 2023

If you’ve ever considered taking the step from treating diving as a hobby to making it a career, you may be wondering what qualifications you need and what is involved…

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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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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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