Diving Guidelines

All divers are responsible for their own safety and dive profiles (including guided dives), following dive tables and/or computers. Safety stops are mandatory (5m, 3mins) on ALL DIVES.

Divers who have not been diving for 12 months are required to do a refresher course with an instructor or divemaster.

All divers are required to use a full set of SCUBA GEAR, including an alternate air source. Divers on Non-limit Diving packages or dive safaris please ask dive staff for dive computer rental.

Reserve starts at 50 BAR (750 psi), time for your ascent!! However, we do like you to make the most of your dive; provided you are not alone, you can still enjoy the coral gardens not deeper then 6m. Do surface with at least 30 BAR (450psi) tank pressure !!!
Always remain close to your buddy, even on guided dives. If you loose your buddy during the dive, search for no more than 1 minute in the immediate area, then inform your diveguide.

Pandan Island diving

We offer 2 guided dives daily at 9:30 and 14:30. Please inform the dive staff at least 1hour before your planned dive. Night dives need to be planned until noon and are at 18:00 with guide, or later without. On request, advanced divers (buddy groups) with more than 60 logged dives each and who dove with us already, may go on beach dives independently. Please consult our dive masters.

Apo Reef and Busuanga Diving

All divers are required to do a check-up dive around Pandan island before we take you out to dive Apo Reef or the Busuanga Wrecks.

Exempt from check-up dives are:

Advanced divers with 100 or more logged dives

A check-up dive is a fun dive on one of our excellent dive sites around Pandan Island, where we can assess the divers' ability, make sure they have well fitting equipment and are properly weighted (more then 50% of the divers carry too much lead !). The purpose is to avoid dangerous descents and group seperations in case difficult situations (waves, currents) arise out on the reef.

HAVE FUN AND SAFE DIVING
MARIPOSA DIVE TEAM