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Front-page news!

I’ve been published before, but today is a first for me: my story made it to the front page of a local business paper, the Edge Davao weekly. Lead story, baby! The piece is about my take on the protection of the marine environment, especially that of Davao Gulf’s. There is a real difficulty in [...]

Destructive divers not welcome

There were two boats at the Coral Gardens when we went diving there today, ours and another group’s. Even though there was a buoy in the area, both boats lowered anchor dangerously close to the coral colonies. One of the boatmen said the buoy was too far out, is why. But, what about the beautiful [...]

The Coral Gardens of Talikud

Before I took up scuba diving, the place called Coral Gardens was my favorite snorkeling site. Now I don’t think I’d ever be satisfied with just swimming on the surface in this aquatic haven. I had my second and third dives there today — each with a different entry point. (I’m not sure how big [...]

Advocating for marine life

Today is World Oceans Day, and it is also Blog Action Day for the Save the Philippine Seas campaign. As part of the latter, I have taken it upon myself to advocate for the conservation of the marine ecosystem in the Gulf of Davao. It’s not going to be easy, I know, but it’s got [...]

Davao Gulf needs help!

Yesterday I had my first two official dives as part of my scuba certification program under SDI, administered by the cool people at Carabao Dive Center. We did Coral Gardens and the Dapia Wall, both found around Talikud Island, Samal. That was my first time to dive Coral Gardens, which is also a great spot [...]

Scuba diving

I’m finally getting myself certified for scuba diving! Actually, I’ve gone diving several times already, two occasions of which I blogged about here and here. But the very first time was at Pearl Farm Beach Resort sometime in the early 90s. I was there for the weekend with friends and I met the resort’s dive [...]