Hi guys,

Our dive instructor Abraham was awarded a Certificate for Excellence from PADI. They received the following statement from one of Abe's students:

Certificate of Recognition for Excellence
Awarded to Abraham Borg # 17567 for outstanding customer service and professionalism in PADI scuba instruction as acknowledged below: "PADI should know how lucky it is to have an instructor like Abraham Borg on board. Forget his super qualifications, Abraham is patient, kind and instills loads of confidence in his students. With Abraham, a diver couldn't feel any more cared and safer. Abraham really cares so much about his students and is one of the best instructors, if not the best that I have come across in my lifetime. Thank you to PADI for providing such a high level of instruction and to Abraham for his unwavering patience and care."

We've got a wonderful e-mail from our avid diver Valeria, who was diving with us last year, which we want to share with you:

Dear guys....

i miss you so much that i cannot explaine....
My crazy feeling for you....
My best part of my life was been there with everyone...
every day i think of you..
i remember each your fantastic smile...and each sunset...

i was very happy with you...
every day of my life was full of color...magic...
I know ...you are special and everyone go there and spend time with you can think the same...
Only one word .....thank you!

Properties and Lots for Sale in Moalboal, Cebu

Over the years we had a lot of our divers coming back to us again and again.

Some of them purchased properties and settled down here in Moalboal.

So if you are interested in a decent property, drop us an e-mail and we get you in touch with trustworthy people who sell lots with a clean title and who will help you with the paper work.

New Year Dive - Some of us must live under water, right?

Traditionally, some of our divers cross over into the New Year under water.

Shortly before midnight our Swiss instructor Uli gathered the willing flock and descended at the house reef. They emptied several bottles of champagne at midnight.

We think that Rachel took a little bit too much, as you can see her mask filled up with some fluid we think is champagne...

We wish all scuba divers and friends of Moalboal a happy new year, and let us know if you want to join us next year.

Your Savedra Team

Savedra offers now PADI Assistant Instructor Courses

After the latest IDC update with PADI Course Director Mario Tapales our Master Instructor and "Tecki" Abraham Borg conducts now PADI Assistant Instructor courses in our dive center.

The PADI Assistant Instructor Course is part of the Instructor Development Course (IDC) which comprises of two parts.

Part 1 Assistant Instructor

The Assistant Instructor course is a minimum of three days. It introduces you to the teaching techniques for skill and knowledge development. The course concentrates on duties and programs Assistant Instructors may conduct independently. On successful completion of the Assistant Instructor course candidates can move on to obtain training to become Open water Scuba Instructors.

We got an amazing e-mail from our PADI Dive Master Candidate Akio which we want to share with you guys:

Dear, Karl, Dino and all my friends in Savedra Dive Center,

I am very sorry not to write for a long time since returning home.

I was very busy for many things that had been waiting for me during my absence in Japan.

Here, it is a complete Autumn now, and the winter is approaching just there.

I did cut and trimming trees in my small garden and cultivated beans, green onions, ginger roots etc, in the countryside.

Thank you very much for supporting me during my long stay in September and October.

Thanks to your steady supports and warm advices, I finally could become a DiveMaster and also could be a member of you.

I am very much happy and proud that I could conquer and pass all the ordeals, such as 60 dives with other guests, training assistant, stamina training and even the interview with a medical doctor.

Now, I could remember your (Karl's) words on e-mail before leaving Japan.

You said that Savedra would offer me the very rigorous and strict training and that after the success of the training you would be sure that I would be a real DiveMaster.

Now, thanks to Dino, I am confident that I have become a REAL DiveMaster with his kind and serious instruction and his very tough training.

I did write the story of these 4 week's severe training and delivered by e-mail to many friends of mine, not only diving friends but also old friends of my high school, university and company.

And I got many many many replies from them.

They mostly say; that they are much surprised at my energy, spirits and efforts, that they are much envious of my life, that I am a superman they can never imitate, that I am passing the ideal human life and that they thanked me for providing them with living energy, etc.

Dear, Karl, Dino and all my friends,
I am sure that I will come to Moalboal again, maybe in February and it would be much appreciated if I could join you and assist you. I also would like to bring some friends of mine with me sooner or later.

Lindy and Dino, thank you very much for everything during my stay.

Hermann and Bhiebs, thank you very much for many things including extension proceedure of my visa.

Please let me ask you the same proceedure again.

Raquel, thank you for all arrangements at everytime.

Jaymi, I will mail the pictures soon please wait for a while.

Now thank you very much again, everybody.

akio (^:^(

Moalboal community - what's up with Patrick?

Many of you know Patrick Devine, an airline Captain who is PADI instructor and IANTD Trimix Technical Diver, and Stella, his beautiful wife. Both of them are living several month of the year in Moalboal.

Patrick, who always looks for something extraordinary, married his Stella at his motorbike dealer at a biker wedding in Florida. Check http://www.polarisindustries.com/en-us/VRA/Insider/BlogWedding.htm for more details.

Patrick contributed some also awesome whale shark videos and shark pics he shot just on our house reef. These videos and picture galleries can be viewed on our upcoming new website, maybe sometime in May or June.