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Transform your life and others - Padi open water scuba instructor

Exotic Instructor course info and schedule

Exotic Malapascua proudly welcomes award-winning PADI Course Director Dan Robinson.

We are thrilled to be working together with award-winning PADI Course Director Dan Robinson and are very happy to have him joining us here at Exotic Island Dive Resort completing our IDC team.

Bringing with him a wealth of knowledge and experience from diving and working all around the globe, Dan teaches all PADI courses available, all the way up to PADI Instructor level including PADI TecRec Instructor and beyond with trimix... Dan has also got his very own Technical advanced wreck speciality! 

What can we say about Dan - 

Dan is very passionate about diving and teaching!

Dan arrived to Exotic early September and dived straight in to meet with the sharks at Monad Shoal the following morning and yes, he was greeted and welcomed by several Thresher sharks!

The Exotic IDC September had 3 candidates: Rey, Janet & Florian. They all did our Gold package and are now aiming to complete their Master Scuba Diver Trainer certification. Main highlights during their IDC included unlimited diving, free accommodation and a chance to gain experience next to our instructors at the beginning of their new career as PADI Open Water Scuba Instructors, all with a minimum of 5 PADI Specialities taught by Dan. 

Dan had a lot of courses going on: The Instructor Development Course (IDC), Staff instructor course, Deep, digital underwater photography, emergency oxygen, enriched air nitrox, multilevel and computer, Self reliant (solo) and wreck speciality instructor courses! And if that wasn't enough there was also PADI Tec 40, Tec 45, Tec 50 , Tec instructor, Tec deep instructor and Cavern! 

The IDC was a great success with all candidates passing with flying colours, and Dan continue the 100% first-time pass rate without any make-ups. 

We want congratulate again the new PADI Open Water Scuba Instructors Janet, Florian and Rey. Well done!! Also a big thank you also to Rebecca, Joa and IDC Staff trainee Bjørnar who helped out through the IDC. 

During the speciality instructor training Dan made several great dives including a trip to Dona Marilyn Wreck and Gato Island which was very popular. The Dona Marilyn is also a perfect training site for Dan’s new Tec Advanced Wreck course! Dan dived most mornings during PADI IDC Malapascua with our thresher sharks, (alopias pelagicus and vulpinus).  This gave him chance to train Tec 40, 45 and 50 Divers and Tec Instructors and Tec Deep Instructors.  Dan said one of his best dives ever was when the water was very clear and the sharks very close.  He could see their silver skin and big black eyes and even identify if it was a female or male.

Dan also got to see his very first bamboo shark at Gato and also seahorses, white tip reef sharks, rays and loads of seahorses. Dan was cross that he kept missing the blue-ringed octopus, but he did find a frogfish by himself on a night dive!

The next IDC and IDC Staff course starts on 3rd December 2013, with MSDT prep specialities and technical programs. Dan and the team will be delighted to welcome you to Exotic Malapascua! 

Groups are kept small so if this sounds interesting, make sure to book your space now!

Dan Robinson

PADI Course Director

DSAT TecRec Trimix Instructor Trainer and Tec Sidemount IT.
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Skype:  DiverDanDan.

dan.robinson@malapascua.net

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Look what our Divemaster Paul spotted at East Garden!

The Hairy Frogfish surely looks like its' name - Hairy! The "hairs" are actually fleshy extensions covering the whole of its body resembling hairs. The hairy frog fish is also known as striated frog fish and can when necessary change colour to help blend into the environment and hide. This adoption takes anything between 2 -5 weeks to complete. 

All frogfishes, Antennarius hispidus is a voracious carnivores which will devour all right-sized prey that passes within reach, usually other fishes but sometimes, even its own kind. It can swallow prey its own size. Hairy frog fish has also been seen to stalk prey along the bottom....

If you have ever seen a frog fish swim you will have noticed how poor swimmers they are. They would mostly move by "walking" along on the bottom. 

Males grow to sizes of 12 cm, females to 25cm, so based on the previous information : a male who is trying to find a new partner, needs to be cautious as the females can literally swallow a partner she does not fancy!..... talk about a hard dating system :)

Exotic Malapascua - What do people think?

We would like to thank everybody who has been writing in our Exotic dive center guestbook. It always puts a big smile on our faces when we go through it.

Here are two of them

Thanks again for all the great reviews, we surely appreciate them! See you soon!

Pusoy and Alfi are back at Malapascua Exotic Island Dive Resort!

                                                      The boys are back in town!! 

Alfi and Pusoy just returned after a period of time on Kerikite where they have been helping out with our new resort! But we all have to dive, right?! So here they are again -as eager as always to show you around the beautiful waters surrounding Malapascua!

Yes! We swam! - Exotic FinaTHON 2013

.....so we didnt reach $3000 but we made $500! 

We want to thank everybody who donated, cheered, sent lovely messages and 

the swimmers who took the plunge and swam with us to END shark finning!

This is how it went:
At 4pm on 31st July enthusiastic swimmers from Exotic Island Dive Resort staff took Exotic 5 dive boat out to the our house reef and made a race back to the beach! There were 17 brave swimmers who battled the waves and went SWIMMING TO END FINNIG. And as expected in a country having 7107 islands they sure knew how to swim!






Here is everyone before in the water minutes before we took of!




It was a great swim and race and the Champion of our FINATHON was Tito, one of our valued boatcrews working for Exotic. Congratulations!

Note: We were aiming to give away a diving price if we reached our goal of $3000....
 - We are still giving away a diving price and if your one of the winners, you will get an email very shortly!

BIG THANKS TO ALL WHO DONATED! 

AND REALLY THANK YOU FOR HELPING US FIGHT FOR THE SHARKS!!

PADI Digital Underwater Photographer

So, you are swimming along a beautiful shallow coral reef and you spot an amazing colorful nudibranch! 
The scenery: Sandy bottom which is easily stirred up but you hover motionless and use your fins to stay in place.

You set your camera white balance and aim to take the shoot of the nudi. There are some algae disturbing the picture so you rotate and lower the camera in order to get the blue water background instead. You compose and take your shoot! 

After looking at the preview you notice that the shoot is all too bright. Hmmph! Well a quick adjustment and another line up for a second shot and you nailed it! Perfect shoot to show friends and family.

Conclusion: With proper positioning, camera handling and 

settings all come together you get great results!

Want to get that perfect picture? Enroll in the PADI Digital Underwater Photographer Specialty!

This course is tailor made to your photography level. We recommend sending / showing us a few of your diving pictures so we can set the correct level and pace.

For enquiries send an email to joa@malapascua.net