PADI Self-Reliant Diver

We are proud to be the first and only Divecenter in Cambodia teaching the PADI Self-Reliant Diver Distinctive Specialty course!

The PADI Self-Reliant Diver course is a new PADI distinctive specialty that aims to recognise and accept the role of the buddy system and its contributions to diver safety while identifying and developing self-reliance and independence while diving.

There are two reasons for an experienced diver to take the Self-Reliant diver course: To develop the skills of planning and carrying out dives without a partner when preferred or necessary and to sharpen skills of diving self-reliance, making the diver a stronger partner in a dive pair or team.

Goodbye Pablo & Nano

Good bye Pablo & Nano!
 
All the best to our former Divemaster trainees from Argentina!!!

Welcome to the team Adam

We also welcome our new Divemaster Adam. Born on the east coast of Australia, upon completing the PADI Open Water in 2002 at the age of 13, he then worked part-time from the age of 15 in a scuba service center. After 4 years with much experience but no real certifications he flew to Thailand in 2008 were he completed the A.S.S.E.T (Association of Scuba Service Engineer & Technicians) in Compressors, gas blending, regulator service, hydrostatic testing and visual inspection. For the next 5 years he worked on Koh Tao in Thailand as head of servicing and as a PADI Divemaster.

"When I was living in Australia, most of the diving I did was to catch something to eat such as scallops and clayfish. By now, I appreciate to dive just for the pleasure of enjoying the underwater world."

Welcome to the team Aaron and Matteo

Ready for the move from Koh Rong to our new shop at the sunset beach on Koh Rong Sanloen we have two new PADI instructors joining the dive shop's team.


Aaron, our new French instructor, who started diving around 6 years ago in the Forra Dive Center at Koh Lipe in Thailand. After this he traveled Asia for a while and dived in most of the sea around. He started his professional diving career 2 years ago as a PADI dive master in the Philippines.

"I'm born in front of the sea in France, and I can't leave far from it! I think i can say that I'm a son of the Big Blue. I traveled since I'm 20 years old, and the Dive Life Style became my life. I like to share my hobbies and talk of dive storys in front of the sea, on a boat with other travelers and divers! I arrived here in April, and wouahouh....! I felt in love with the Cambodian islands, the place is beautiful... Koh Rong Sanloen is a truly paradise island, we conduct interesting dives and the team is amazing. By now, Cambodia became my second home!"

Matteo, our Italian instructor started diving when he was 15 years old with his father in Turin. He did most of his dives in Italy, Sardinia, Puglia and Liguria. His fist diving trip destination was the Red Sea in 2009. Afterwards, in 2012 he became a Divemaster and started his career with PADI.

"I'm born in a place close to Turin, I have been traveling since I was 17 years old and I know many people all around the word but just this year I started to travel and did the instructor course and meet divers from many places. I arrived in Cambodia just a couple of days ago so I haven't had time to discover the undersea world of this beautiful country yet. But I'm here for this."

Awesome Graffiti

Several artists have been helping to make our old office colorful again! Here is my personal favorite, a diver rescuing a pretty girl. :)

Thanks a lot to the artist PSHE from Russia who has sprayed it in just a couple of hours!

The Dive Shop ART EXHIBITION

Urgently we need to get back on track and have a stylish office again. So here we go: LETS DO AN ART EXHIBITION!

We would like to welcome every artist, painter grafitti sprayer and anybody else creative in Sihanoukville to paint our left-over walls!

We will photograph all the paintings and upload them onto our facebook page and vote which is the most pretty one. The winner is welcome to stay in our resort, the Robinson Bungalows for two nights, of course free of charge!

Please spread the word, if you are interested just see us at the old office or at Ana Travel, or, even easier, just start painting!

The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire!

The day before yesterday we have had a very tragic situation in our main office in Sihanoukville. A fire broke out at Monkey Republic, the bungalow resort next door to our shop. It was impossible for the firefighters to stop the fire before it went to us. Our whole office burnt down...

The good news is that nobody got injured what we have lost can and will be build up again soon. Anyways we did not stop diving, the dive center on Koh Rong island as well as the Robinson Bungalows on Koh Rong Samleum are fully operational! Luckily the boats, dive gear as well as all our infrastructure on the islands is still intact.

WE KEEP DIVING AS THIS IS WHAT WE CAN DO BEST!

Thanks to Ana Travel we have a provisional office again, you will find us just opposite the road still in the Serendipity Beach Road.

A big thanks hugs and kisses go out to all our friends, students and divers for all the help we have had during the last two days. A special thanks to Ana Travel for setting up a desk for us to have a running computer again, thanks to Marco Polo for the tasty pizza and all the others who have helped us morally and physically getting things sorted.