Asia Diving



Asia Dive





Anyone that knows me also knows that Asia Diving is my passion after learning to dive in Hawaii which is a fantastic place to start, I went out diving in Thailand, and then went so far as too start a Cambodia Diving company that I sold a few years ago. Which was when  started to work on Cheap Charlies Hotels & Flights full time.

Anyway getting back to the topic. I ran into a gentleman today in Bali and we were talking about different Asia Dive locations,and he said that he had recently spent some time on Koa Toa, which is where I did my PADI IDC Instructor Course.

 I had spent a fair bit of time there on two different occasions and was amazed to hear that Koh Toa actually grew after I had been there and I thought that having 25 dive shops was to many, now you have over 50 and that was where I was heading with the post that we tend to kill the places that we love by over taxing the environment.

Right now in Bali Tulamben is in a huge growth spurt and having been coming through here for the last 3 years. I am starting to see a degradation in the diving here and most of it is caused by divers that are new to diving being allowed near things that can break like Sea Fans.  I saw two in one day on different dives that were obviously very recent breaks and they could have been avoided had the divers had better dive training specifically Peak Performance Buoyancy.

PADI and National Geographic have a co branded dive package that includes a 5 dive that focus on Underwater naturalist and Peak Performance Buoyancy I would like to see where all of the different dive certification agency's get together and make this a mandatory dive for Open water diver certification and also make places like the Tulamben wreck and similar unique dive sites off limits to lower level training dives and especially DSD or try dives.