Returning to our usual trips leaving on a Friday night, last weekend we headed to Buaya Island (aka Crocodile Island) and Pompong Island near Pulau Lingga, Indonesia. Ten of us left Singapore’s Tanah Merah Ferry Terminal Friday night and then cruised overnight south. Waking up Saturday morning to clear blue skies we had our first … Read more
This weekend we had 40 divers enjoying Hantu, with at least divers 4 from overseas. The status of “The world famous Hantu” is reaching the far ends of the earth. Congrats to Frazer and Gabriel for completing their PADI Open Water Diver Courses. Here are photos of two of the trips. Sorry we didn’t get … Read more
Another great weekend diving local Singapore waters. We had eight divers visiting the new Sisters’ Islands Marine Park with GS-Diving Instructor Julius, GS-Diving PADI DiveMaster Karen and myself. We dived the deep and shallow dive trails, which are well laid out and interesting to follow sprinkled with nudis, sweetlips, sponge coral, featherstars, clams and starfish. … Read more
Another great weekend at Hantu, a local island just 45 minutes from Singapore. We completed a total of 8 dives over the weekend. Congratulations to two newly certified PADI Open Water Divers. Well done, Ella and Steffen. Sophia and Stryder, completed 2 of the required 4 dives for their PADI Open Water Diver Course too … Read more
Another great weekend diving and with a public holiday falling on Tuesday, we had an extra opportunity to DiveSingapore on Deepavali too. A total of 60 people enjoyed the muck diving at Hantu including 2 night dives on Saturday. We have a seahorse colony living at Hantu at the moment. GS-Diving PADI Instructor Julius managed … Read more
Continuing our excursions to Bintan’s reefs and wrecks, this week I was accompanied by 16 divers headed by Kathleen. Leaving Friday evening from Singapore’s Tanah Merah Ferry Terminal, with a short hop over to Batam, Indonesia we were on the Seaborne (live on board) in a matter of an hour or so. Saturday’s first dive … Read more
With 4 trips and 40 divers, we had a great time diving Hantu all weekend. I was onboard Saturday, because GS-Diving PADI Instructor Julius was taking his Powered Pleasure Craft Driving Licence (PPCDL) practical tests. Happy to say he passed. Well done Captain Julius! The viz all weekend had dropped off a bit to 3 … Read more
Only two trips this weekend in our local Singapore Waters, with 4 dives completed over the Saturday and Sunday, in great viz of around 5-6 metres. Seahorses everywhere, along with nudibranchs and even a bamboo shark. One of the resident turtles was seen coming up for air, however it wasn’t seen under water. Sorry … Read more
Another great weekend of 3 trips with a total of 6 combined dives over Saturday and Sunday in local Singapore Waters. Regulars An, Ann and Kelvin were onboard taking macro shots around their favourite destination, Hantu. Seahorses were seen along with hundreds of nudis. Mark completed his PADI Open Water … Read more
What a fantastic weekend diving on the reefs and wrecks north of Bintan, Indonesia onboard The Seaborne live-aboard! Great visibility (20 metres on a couple of dives), little to no current and a cracking group of divers! Myself (James – Instructor and PADI DiveMaster), GS-Diving PADI DiveMaster Kelvin and our PADI DiveMaster Trainee Lucy, accompanied … Read more
It was a wonderful Sunday at Pulau Hantu (one of Singapore’s “Best Kept Secrets”) with amazing viz of more than 5 metres. We completed 4 dives over the two trips. Two dives in the morning and another two dives in the afternoon. We enjoyed loads of sea life such as seahorses, stingrays and so much … Read more
We headed out from the Republic Of Singapore Yacht Club at 6pm for two night dives in local Singapore Waters and the oil refinery looked like Las Vegas! The boat was full of regulars; Venus and Bok, Boon Leong, Tony, Amber, Alex and Ken. I was doing the PADI Night Speciality with Jean-Yves. He was … Read more
Another great weekend diving the reefs and wrecks around Northern Bintan, Indonesia aboard The Seaborne (Live on Board). Escaping the haze on Friday evening, we left from Tenah Marah Ferry Terminal and headed over to Nongsa ready to board the awaiting The Seaborne. That weekend we had 10 divers accompanied by 2 Instructors; myself (James) … Read more
With GS-Diving PADI Instructor Julius busy diving elsewhere, I was lucky enough to look after the boat and divers on Thursday, Singapore’s Hari Raya Haji Public Holiday. We had 9 divers in the morning and 8 in the afternoon. Unfortunately, 2 decided to cancel due to the haze. The visibility above the water was about … Read more
Last weekend we headed over to the Northern Reefs and Wrecks of Bintan Indonesia, setting off from Tanah Merah Ferry Terminal, Singapore on Friday evening. The guests this week were as diverse as the marine life, from family guy characters to the serial Seaborner, Gary Lim. A total of 14 guests for the weekend, 9 … Read more
What a great weekend trip at Pulau Hantu, Singapore! We enjoyed 5m viz. This is the best it has been for some weeks. It is an easy trip from Republic of Singapore Yacht Club, just a short 40 minutes by boat. Her name is the Dolphin Explorer and with a shower, full toilet and spacious … Read more
What a great weekend dive trip at Pulau Hantu, Singapore’s famous island of its southern waters, just a short 45 minute boat ride away. Enjoying the 4 metres visibility with loads of sea life we had 4 trips over the weekend. Divers were lucky enough to see the resident sea turtle, seahorses, cuttlefish, stingrays, several … Read more
A great weekend at Mapor and the Northern Reefs around Bintan, Indonesia. Meeting at Singapore’s Tanah Merah Ferry Terminal (TMFT) at 7.30pm, we headed over to Batam via the fast ferry before catching the free shuttle bus over to the Seaborne berthed at Nongsa Point Marina. With 10 divers, … Read more
What an amazing weekend at Pulau Hantu, a local island in the southern waters of Singapore. With more than 5 metre visibility, we knew that we would be in for a treat. I know some people may think that 5 metres is rather limited, but given it was 3 metres the … Read more
This August weekend saw 28 recreational divers diving our local Singapore waters. Just a short 40 minute boat ride from Republic of Singapore Yacht Club (RSYC), divers had either two morning dives or two afternoon dives around our World Famous Island known as Hantu. GS-Diving PADI Instructor, Julius had two trips over the weekend and … Read more
Happy National Day Weekend! We celebrated in style with a 4 day exploratory trip in Indonesia onboard the Seaborne (live on board). We departed on the evening of the 6th from Nongsa Point Marina with 10 divers onboard and headed south to our first day’s destination, Pulau Abeng Besar. Arriving early Friday morning we spent … Read more
Despite the heavy rains encountered Friday and Saturday we managed to have a few great dives this long weekend. Friday was a public holiday in Singapore and we had two trips, both morning and afternoon. Saturday we just dived in the morning. We were diving in Singapore’s backyard, a local island called Hantu. Friday saw … Read more
Another great weekend at Pulau Hantu, Singapore despite the visibility dropping from last weekend. This weekend it was 3 metres. We had one trip Saturday morning and two trips on Sunday. We saw three seahorses, some stingrays and nudibranchs. GS-Diving PADI Instructor Julius completed the PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course with Han and Shannen … Read more
Enjoying the weekend again at Pulau Hantu, Singapore with two trips on Saturday. We had a nice visibility at around 4-5 metres. We spotted a bunch of seahorses, several species of nudibranch and a stingray. GS-Diving PADI Instructor Julius finished two PADI Adventure Dives with his two PADI Advanced Open Water students, Shannen and Han. … Read more
Friday the 17th was a Singapore Public Holiday (Hari Raya Puasa), so the Seaborne (live on board) departed Thursday night from Nongsa Point Marina bound for Malang Biru, an Island of Anambas, Indonesia. With 15 divers onboard we cruised through the night in calm seas and arrived at our destination around 7am. We planned two … Read more
Friday the 17th of July was a Singapore Public Holiday (Hari Raya Puasa), so we had a long weekend of diving. A total of 5 trips with a total of 50 divers. GS-Diving PADI Instructor, Julius was very busy navigating people in and out of the water all weekend. For each trip we did 2 … Read more
The visibility was not great this weekend with only a few sightings of marine life. A seahorse and some nudi’s were spotted. Still everyone was happy to DiveSingapore. Hopefully the visibility will improve soon. We completed 2 dives around Hantu, a southern island of Singapore, which is just a short 40 minute boat ride from … Read more
This weekend we had a group of leisure divers, diving Saturday afternoon. Sunday was all day completing PADI Rescue Diver Course with 17 divers. Quick update from Julius on the leisure diver trip: Another dive for the weekend trip at Pulau Hantu visibility wasn’t so good 3-4 metres. Great dives with some seahorses, cuttlefish, snake … Read more
This weekend we travelled to Mapor and Northern Reefs around Bintan, Indonesia. We left Singapore’s Tanah Merah Ferry Terminal (TMFT) at 8.30pm and headed to Batam on the fast ferry. Then we caught the free shuttle bus to the Seaborne berth at Nongsa Point Marina, just a short journey, 10 minutes away. We left the … Read more
Another great weekend diving around Mapor, Indonesia onboard the live on board called the Seaborne. The visibility was ok, but not as good as normal. That did not deter us though from enjoying the weekend of diving. We completed 7 dives over the weekend. We dived Buddha Rock, Sentut, Redang, Valley Forge Wreck and the … Read more
Another great weekend at Pulau Hantu, Singapore and visibility was getting better. It was 3-4 metres this weekend. We dived all day Saturday and Sunday afternoon (3 trips in total). The highlights were the 3 seahorses, a stingray, “Shawn the Sheep” and a black tip shark. GS-Diving PADI Instructor Julius did PADI Open Water Dives … Read more
With two late cancellations, the group of 15 and I left Singapore’s Tanah Merah Ferry Terminal Friday night on the 8.30pm ferry bound for Nonsgapura, Indonesia. We were on our way to Anambas! Once we cleared immigration we took a short bus ride to Nongsa Point Marina. The Seaborne is a live on board dive … Read more
This weekend at Pulau Hantu, Singapore the visibility wasn’t as great as last weekend. Viz was at 1-2 metres but we still managed to have some nice dives. We saw seahorses, a stingray and some nudibranchs. GS-Diving PADI Instructor Julius did PADI Open Water dives 1 & 2 with Mauro and Linda and completed the … Read more
I was available to do the local dives this weekend. With 4 trips and 40 divers including 9 students, it was exhausting. I certified 3 PADI Advanced Open Water Divers and 4 PADI Open Water Divers. 2 of the PADI Open Water Diver students were having a lot of issues and they decided not to … Read more
Long weekends are fantastic for diving Anambas, Indonesia. We headed out from Tanah Merah Ferry Terminal (TMFT) Singapore, Friday night and travelled overnight to our first dive site, an island called Damar about 110 miles from Batam. The visibility was fantastic all weekend. We completed 8 dives around Anambas, Damar, Repong, Katoka Rock, Bawah and … Read more
With 50 divers diving local Singapore waters over the Vesak Day long weekend, the GS-Diving team were rather busy over the 5 half day trips. GS-Diving PADI Instructor Julius and GS-Diving PADI Dive Master Kelvin were in charge of the boat over various trips. Here are some comments and photos from two regular scuba divers: … Read more
This weekend at Pulau Hantu, a local island off the coast of Singapore, the visibility wasn’t as great as the previous weekend. It was only 1-2m, but we still managed to have some great dives. As always there were a lot of nudibranchs and we spotted four seahorses. During the three trips, GS-Diving Instructor Julius … Read more
Enjoying the weekend again at Pulau Hantu, a local island off Singapore. We had two trips on Saturday and two trips on Sunday. We had amazing vis at around 6-8m. GS-Diving Instructor Julius noted that divers could see the surface from Ghost Wreck. Ghost Wreck lies at a depth of 9 metres. Divers spotted a … Read more
The Seaborne, live on board headed out towards Anambas, Indonesia for the first time, in a very long time this weekend. Unfortunately the seas were not as calm as expected in May and some people were a little bit sea sick. We dived at Malang Biru, Repong, Katoka Rock … Read more
We had another great weekend of Singapore diving at Pulau Hantu. GS-Diving Instructor Julius completed PADI Open Water Courses with 6 kids from a International school and he also completed the PADI Advanced Open Water Course with Kenneth. This is what Kenneth said: Hi Gary, Just wanted to write to you to thank you and … Read more
After the fantastic May Day trip, we enjoyed another great two days of diving. We did two trips on Saturday and one trip Sunday afternoon. We dived at Hantu, a local island off Singapore, just a short 35 minute boat ride away. GS-Diving Instructor Julius was on board looking after all the divers. Rachel completed … Read more
The latest GS-Diving PADI Dive Master Kelvin was running the local trips on Mayday. With 10 people on each of the two trips, he was a busy guy. We dived at Hantu, a local island off Singapore. I have copied some text from some of the regular divers below and added their best shots too. … Read more
With 7 kids from an international school and 7 adults we headed out from Tanah Merah Ferry Terminal, Singapore to join The Seaborne (LOB) at Nongsa Point Marina, Indonesia. Big Andy, GS-Diving PADI Dive Master was on board to help out with some on the PADI Advanced Diver Course dives. For those readers who are … Read more
With the ADEX dive show on in Singapore, we did not dive on the weekend 10-12 April 2015. But on the following weekend, we enjoyed 3 trips of local diving in Singapore. Saturday morning and afternoon and Sunday morning trips were full with 10 divers each. GS-Diving Instructor Julius was there to manage all the … Read more
The Easter Long Weekend dive trip to Riau, Indonesia on the Seaborne was just amazing. We enjoyed 25 metre visibility at most dive sites. We did a total of 11 dives over the long weekend. I did a night dive and used a fluorescent light, it was very cool and I will buy some to leave … Read more
Another fantastic dive trip to Riau, Indonesia onboard the Seaborne. The Seaborne is a live on boat that comfortably accommodates 14 divers. With an early return due to one diver having breathing issues after swallowing a lot of water after the night dive, we arrived back in Singapore around midday on Sunday. We completed 5 … Read more
The Singapore local diving trips were full again this weekend and we dived both mornings on Saturday and Sunday. GS-Diving Instructor Julius was onboard again. Julius conducted the PADI Open Water Diver Course with Lucia both days and completed dives 1 and 2 of the same course with Darren and Kelly. … Read more
This was the second trip for the Seaborne to Riau, Indonesia. We headed off on Friday night from Tanah Merah Ferry Terminal, Singapore to join her at Nongsa Marina, Batam. After dinner we departed. The seas were nice and calm and like a lake at our diving destination when we arrived early in the morning. … Read more
The latest GS-Diving Dive Master Trainee, Kelvin was onboard Saturday looking after the divers. Whilst, Julius, GS-Diving Instructor was onboard on Sunday completing PADI Rescue Diver with Jim and PADI ReActivate with Keith. Moh Tat was diving and took some nice picture, see below: … Read more
Another great weekend of local diving. GS-Diving Instructor Julius was onboard looking after all the guests both Saturday and Sunday. On Saturday we had Daniel, Kelvin, Keng Boon, Eugene, An, Jerome, Alex and his student. And on Sunday we had Ann, Hilary, Diew Hie, Iaval, Eric, Sophie, Keith and Ahmad. Sorry we forgot to take … Read more
