Trip Report for 6 and 9 February 2016 (DiveSingapore)

Happy Lunar New Year to our GS-Diving Pulau Hantu Divers! This new year brought a lot of excitement and family gatherings, with that in mind and the fact my parents were were in town, we only dived the Sunday the 6th and Wednesday the 9th, in the morning. We dived at a local island known … Read more

Trip Report 30 – 31 January 2016 (Seaborne LOB)

We returned to Batam Reefs this weekend on a two day one night trip. Catching the morning ferry from Tanah Merah Ferry Terminal our six divers headed over to Nongsa Batam, and set out for our days diving at Kerang Gelang Reef, Indonesia. Arriving at the reef to some high swell highlighed the benefit of … Read more

Trip Report 30 and 31 January (Dive Singapore)

A great weekend at Pulau Hantu, Singapore. We enjoyed so much with a nice group of divers and students on Saturday and Sunday morning. Viz was about 3-4 metres with loads of nudis, seahorses, pipefish, coral shrimp fish, cuttlefish and a lot more. Congratulations to Desmond, Benny and Erin who completed their PADI Open Water … Read more

Trip Report 23 – 24 January 2016 (Seaborne LOB)

This weekend, myself (James) and PADI DiveMaster, Cassandra took 8 divers out to Batam Reefs and GS-Diving PADI DiveMaster Kelvin also tagged along to get some underwater photography done. We had really nice weather with quite nice conditions. Viz was reasonable and a little current at times meant there was good diving to be done. … Read more

Trip Report 9 and 10 January 2016 DiveSingapore

What a hectic (but enjoyable) weekend on the New Dolphin Explorer.  We had a total of 70 divers over 4 trips.  The viz was not at its best for this weekend.  On Saturday the viz was around 2-3 metres, but on Sunday afternoon it dropped to a snowy 1 metre. We had 19 PADI Open … Read more

Trip Report 9-10 January 2016 Seaborne

Another enjoyable weekend over at Batam, Indonesia upon The Seaborne. Leaving 8am Saturday morning returning 2pm on Sunday, provides an easy quick diving getaway. This weekend there were 8 divers with myself (GS-Diving PADI DiveMaster, James) and GS-Diving PADI DiveMaster in Training, Nico. Heading straight over to Nongsa Batam from Tanah Merah Ferry Terminal (TMFT) … Read more

Trip Report 2nd and 3rd January 2016 Dive Singapore

The first trip for 2016 was great. We had relatively good viz of 3 to 4 metres at Hantu, a local Singapore island just 20 minutes by boat from Republic of Singapore Yacht Club.  We had two trips with about 10 people each day enjoying the new Dolphin Explorer. Everyone was impressed by her spaciousness, … Read more