Scuba Diving Courses Riau – Trip Report – 24 to 25 December 2016 (Seaborne)

Scuba Diving Courses Riau – It just keeps getting better! Garoupa! Dolphins! Turtle sightings every week! It was an awesome Christmas weekend spent with eight divers on board the LOB vessel Seaborne. Fun-loving instructors, great hospitality and food, new found friends, plus a spectacular fireworks display made this weekend exceptionally special!

We had a blessed diving trip this Christmas weekend because we even spotted wild dolphins swimming in the waters off Nongsa! Such a rare sight and treat for our divers.

GS-Diving is a dive school in Singapore which specializes in PADI scuba diving courses in Batam, Bintan and Tioman, from Open Water to Assistant Instructor on liveaboard MV Seaborne. We offer the lowest all-inclusive packages for liveaboard scuba diving courses in Singapore every weekend with small student groups.  Other scuba diving specialty courses are also available on request. We are a top-rated dive school in Singapore with excellent reviews. Our success lies upon our experienced and dedicated PADI dive instructors, who always give their best to ensure that all students have a safe and enjoyable scuba diving experience.

You have the freedom to scuba dive with a buddy, independently or with a professional. Discover the millions of wonderful, colourful and excitingly diversified marine ecology in our oceans.In the midst of fun carefree diving, not only will you encounter fascinating underwater marine life, you will also meet many interesting people too. After all, divers are people who know how to have fun and explore new places. Scuba diving allows you to explore the underwater world – from historic shipwrecks and pristine reefs to the mysteries of your local quarry.Connect with nature and immerse yourself in new sensations and experiences. Diving will transform your perception of life forever! Become a scuba diver and explore what you’ve been missing!

Links for all courses – https://gs-diving.com/padi-courses/

Link for leisure trips – https://gs-diving.com/scheduled-dive-trips/

Also check out Dive Singapore for the variety of gears we carry visit : https://www.divesingapore.sg/product-category/scuba-equipments/

Congratulations to our three PADI Open Water students Katrīna Allikas, Artis Are & Jia Rui

Photographer/Videographer: Vivien Tan
Video Editor: Edith
Cheers: GS-Diving PADI Instructor Gary Lim

Trip Report 23 December 2016 – Sisters’ Islands Marine Park

It’s been a long time since we dived at the Sisters’ Islands Marine Park! Now that it’s reopened, divers can now dive in Singapore’s very own backyard. Check out this video of our awesome trip with our 8 divers on 23rd Dec 2016. It was a Friday afternoon trip and luckily we avoided the rain.

Photos credit: Angchee Boon & a Secret Dive Buddy!

Cheers, GS-Diving PADI Instructor, Gary Lim

Scuba Diving Riau – Trip Report 17 to 18 December 2016 (Seaborne)

Scuba Diving Riau – It was yet another awesome weekend of diving with a full board of 15 divers! Thank you all for joining us on board our Seaborne live on board (LOB) vessel in Batam. With a visibility of 5-8m, fun-loving divers, great hospitality by our crew, and not forgetting a spectacular fireworks display, it was a weekend well spent with like-minded divers! Congratulations to our new Open Water student Laurent Teo, and Advanced Open Water students Joz Koh & Jessica Rose Brian Maniam.

GS-Diving is a dive school in Singapore which specializes in PADI scuba diving courses in Batam, Bintan and Tioman, from Open Water to Assistant Instructor on liveaboard MV Seaborne. We offer the lowest all-inclusive packages for liveaboard scuba diving courses in Singapore every weekend with small student groups.  Other scuba diving specialty courses are also available on request. We are a top-rated dive school in Singapore with excellent reviews. Our success lies upon our experienced and dedicated PADI dive instructors, who always give their best to ensure that all students have a safe and enjoyable scuba diving experience.

You have the freedom to scuba dive with a buddy, independently or with a professional. Discover the millions of wonderful, colourful and excitingly diversified marine ecology in our oceans.In the midst of fun carefree diving, not only will you encounter fascinating underwater marine life, you will also meet many interesting people too. After all, divers are people who know how to have fun and explore new places. Scuba diving allows you to explore the underwater world – from historic shipwrecks and pristine reefs to the mysteries of your local quarry.Connect with nature and immerse yourself in new sensations and experiences. Diving will transform your perception of life forever! Become a scuba diver and explore what you’ve been missing!

Links for all courses – https://gs-diving.com/padi-courses/

Link for leisure trips – https://gs-diving.com/scheduled-dive-trips/

Also check out Dive Singapore for the variety of gears we carry visit : https://www.divesingapore.sg/product-category/scuba-equipments/

Photographers: Vivien Tan & Daniel Koller
Videographer: Vivien Tan
Video editor: Edith

Cheers, GS-Diving PADI Instructor, Gary Lim

Scuba Diving Riau Islands – Trip Report 10 to 11 December 2016 (Seaborne)

Scuba Diving Riau Islands – It just keeps getting better! With 16 awesome divers and cool GS-Diving PADI Instructors, our weekend trip on 10 & 11 December was a blast! Loads of fun, new friendships forged, awesome diving and great visibility, these made our diving trip exciting like none other.

Congratulations to our three new PADI Advanced Open Water divers Sim Sze Wei, Philbert Ong and Aaron Ong!

GS-Diving is a dive school in Singapore which specializes in PADI scuba diving courses in Batam, Bintan and Tioman, from Open Water to Assistant Instructor on liveaboard MV Seaborne. We offer the lowest all-inclusive packages for liveaboard scuba diving courses in Singapore every weekend with small student groups.  Other scuba diving specialty courses are also available on request. We are a top-rated dive school in Singapore with excellent reviews. Our success lies upon our experienced and dedicated PADI dive instructors, who always give their best to ensure that all students have a safe and enjoyable scuba diving experience.

You have the freedom to scuba dive with a buddy, independently or with a professional. Discover the millions of wonderful, colourful and excitingly diversified marine ecology in our oceans.In the midst of fun carefree diving, not only will you encounter fascinating underwater marine life, you will also meet many interesting people too. After all, divers are people who know how to have fun and explore new places. Scuba diving allows you to explore the underwater world – from historic shipwrecks and pristine reefs to the mysteries of your local quarry.Connect with nature and immerse yourself in new sensations and experiences. Diving will transform your perception of life forever! Become a scuba diver and explore what you’ve been missing!

Links for all courses – https://gs-diving.com/padi-courses/

Link for leisure trips – https://gs-diving.com/scheduled-dive-trips/

Also check out Dive Singapore for the variety of gears we carry visit : https://www.divesingapore.sg/product-category/scuba-equipments/

Photographer/Videographer: Vivien Tan
Video editor:Edith

Cheers, GS-Diving PADI Instructor, Gary Lim

Basic Dive Course Riau – Trip Report 3 to 4 December 2016 – Seaborne (Live On Board)

Basic Dive Course Riau – What an awesome weekend spent with our new PADI Open Water divers! Check out our short video which highlights the fun everyone had during this memorable diving trip!

Congratulations to our 5 New Open Water Divers! Christianna Fung, Ignatius Roberts, Rachel Barrett, Yumi Lewis & Naotaka Neil Ichinose!

GS-Diving is a dive school in Singapore which specializes in PADI scuba diving courses in Batam, Bintan and Tioman, from Open Water to Assistant Instructor on liveaboard MV Seaborne. We offer the lowest all-inclusive packages for liveaboard scuba diving courses in Singapore every weekend with small student groups.  Other scuba diving specialty courses are also available on request. We are a top-rated dive school in Singapore with excellent reviews. Our success lies upon our experienced and dedicated PADI dive instructors, who always give their best to ensure that all students have a safe and enjoyable scuba diving experience.

You have the freedom to scuba dive with a buddy, independently or with a professional. Discover the millions of wonderful, colourful and excitingly diversified marine ecology in our oceans.In the midst of fun carefree diving, not only will you encounter fascinating underwater marine life, you will also meet many interesting people too. After all, divers are people who know how to have fun and explore new places. Scuba diving allows you to explore the underwater world – from historic shipwrecks and pristine reefs to the mysteries of your local quarry.Connect with nature and immerse yourself in new sensations and experiences. Diving will transform your perception of life forever! Become a scuba diver and explore what you’ve been missing!

Links for all courses – https://gs-diving.com/padi-courses/

Link for leisure trips – https://gs-diving.com/scheduled-dive-trips/

Also check out Dive Singapore for the variety of gears we carry visit : https://www.divesingapore.sg/product-category/scuba-equipments/

 

Thank you for putting together this second awesome video Aaron Lui!

Combine Your Love of Travel with a PADI Course

PADI CourseCombine Your Love of Travel with a PADI Course

As much as we love our local dive sites here in Singapore, the GS-Diving team also love to travel. We are very privileged to have so many great dive spots right on our door step and we’ve spent years exploring them and travelling into pristine areas that have never been dived before. Our team continues to explore and are passionate about sharing these sites with our divers when they sign up for a PADI Course with us.

Exploring Local Dive Sites

The Southern Reefs of Bintan and Batam are part of the Riau Archipelago – small islands and remote fishing villages that make you feel like you are travelling back in time. Best of all however is the existence of phenomenal diving on the pristine reefs, with few other divers around and abundant marine life. If you are an underwater photographer this is an exceptional area with endless photography opportunities. If you’re looking to develop your camera skills or to get started in underwater photography it’s possible to take the PADI Digital Underwater Photography course during your trip. You’ll come back with images that will be the envy of your buddies!

The Southern Reefs of Singapore are also home to a number of World War II era wrecks which are at relatively shallow depths. These wrecks provide habitat for numerous species of fish, critters, corals and are great for exploring. If you are new to wreck diving we recommend you take the PADI Wreck Diver Adventure dive during your trip so you maximise your time underwater.  You’ll learn some great tips and techniques for diving on ship wrecks including new finning techniques, how to assess a wreck for hazards and how to navigate. This Adventure dive will also count towards one of the 5 Adventure dives needed for your PADI Advanced Open Water Certification. If you want to go “all the way” and complete the full Advanced Open Water course during your trip, that’s possible too!

Exploring Indonesia

Did you know that Pulau Mapor in Indonesia is the largest offshore island in the Bintan group and is also home to several wrecks? Pulau Mapor is a great destination for divers wanting to take a closer look at wreck diving and complete the full PADI Wreck Diver Specialty course. During your course you will not just see incredible marine life, you’ll learn how to safely assess a wreck for penetration possibilities. Once you have your wreck diving specialty you’ll only need 4 more (plus PADI Rescue Diver) to become a PADI Master Scuba Diver – the equivalent of the black belt in diving!

As well as Bintan, Batam and Mapor in Indonesia we also dive around Northern Lingga which offer a mix of rock pinnacles, sloping reefs and the SS Kung Wo Wreck with great visibility and the chance to see black tip reef sharks.

Other GS Diving Dive Trips

All of our trips to overseas destinations are great fun, well organised with the focus on you and your diving. If you are trying to decide between taking a PADI course with us or a dive trip, it’s easy – just combine the two so that you get the maximum benefit (and fun) out of your program. Just let us know which PADI course you are thinking of and we can recommend the best destination to suit your requirements.

Check out the exciting overseas dive sites we visit and to see which PADI course you’d like to combine with your trip, check our full list of PADI courses.