The small fishing town of Coron will be your base to Asia’s best wreck sites. Here you will see some of the Philippines’ most spectacular scenery, ranging from huge limestone cliffs, underwater and land caves to thermal lakes, hot springs, jungles and rivers. It’s remote, rarely visited by tourists, which helps to keep it one of the philippines best kept secrets. For the wreck diving enthusiast, this is your chance to dive one of the worlds premier WW2 wreck sites, all easily accessible from Sangat.

Sangat Island Resort has bungalow style accommodation overlooking a white sandy beach with the opportunity to use their complimentary kayaks to paddle in the crystal clear water.

Only $2,850 Per Diver

       $2,350 Per Non Diver

Plus $330 pre-paid taxes per person 

Prestine tropical waters..

DAY & DATE                 ITINERARY

SAT 18 AUG                        7.25 AM Depart Melbourne on Philippine Airlines PR 210

                                                4.35 PM Arrive Manilla.

IN:  18 AUG                            Westin Philippine Plaza

OUT: 19 AUG                        Roxas Boulevard, Manila

                                                TEL:  (632) 832 0701   FAX:  (632) 832 3485

Deluxe city hotel with restaurant, bar, swimming pool, spa and sauna. 

All rooms have private facilities with colour tv, radio, STD/IDD phone,refrigerator,

            Mini bar and air conditioning.

            Twin Share

                                                Return airport transfers Rajah Tours

SUN 19 AUG                         9 AM Depart Manila Sea air charter

                                                10 AM Arrive Coron

IN; 19 AUG                             Sangat Island Resort

OUT: 28 AUG                                    Coron

                                                Ph: 63 919 2050198

Ten freestanding individual bungalows made out of naturalmaterialshaveviewsover thetranquil ocean all with balconyand private facilities.Relaxedand informal Sangat has abeautiful white sand beach. The diving is run by the in housediveoperation with all dive sites  all extremely close to the resort making thedive trip only a short boattrip away.

                                                Twin Bungalow

                                                Transfers

                                                All meals

Dive Package 14 Dives each – including tanks, weights and airfills.

Tropical sunset..

TUE 28 AUG                       2 PM Depart Coron Sea air charter

                                                3 PM Arrive Manila

                                                8.05 PM Depart Manila on Philippine Airlines PR 209

WED 29 AUG                       6.05 AM Arrive Melbourne                             

                                                            ** WELCOME HOME **

One more of us, one less of them…

For those who don’t know me, my name is Amy Alexander and I’ve been working with Descend now for about 6 months. After working with all the gear and meeting all the divers I am about to officially become one of you, I’ve joined one of the courses this month and will be certified the first weekend in March. This little write up will show my progress up until mid way through the course…

Magical soft coral

As I started my open water course there were a number things going though my head, feelings of excitement right through to the nervousness and hesitation of doing something new. I’m finally going to be able answer “yes” when the rather popular question of “do I dive?” is put to me. Since starting my course I’ve done 2 pool sessions and completed my theory. My first pool session involved me swallowing half of the pool due to being completely uncoordinated in regard to mask clearing, which I have pretty much got under control now… thankfully! Wrestling with the wetsuit was rather interesting not to mention painful! I think I scuffed the skin off three of my knuckles but in the end I survived and got the suit on. Everyone was so excited and itching to get in the water, we were in and out a little bit because the weather was a bit stormy. At the end of the night we got to have a go with the scuba gear, which gave us a taste of what was to come on the next pool night. I felt like a bit of a pack- horse with the 20kg of BC and cylinder on my back, this is obviously something I’m going to need to get used to!  Night one went well and although tired and sore I was looking forward to the next pool session.
Night two of the pool was all on scuba, which was really good to get used to the equipment. I seem to be rather buoyant so while everyone else was lying on the bottom I was floating to the surface, we solved the problem by adding more weight. I was getting a bit frustrated trying to learn these new unfamiliar skills only because I’m not someone possessing much patience particularly with myself J We worked on my mask clearing and mid way through the night I had it down pat – finally!! When Rick said that we were moving into the “big pool” I was a bit hesitant, but I pushed my mind aside and jumped in. I found it so much easier being in the deeper pool and I actually enjoyed it more than the 50m pool, I’m looking forward to the next few sessions and can’t wait to see what the ocean has for us.
We only have one more pool session to do, then were down to Queenscliff for the sea weekend. I’ll let you know how it goes in next month’s newsletter…