June 2015 - Wet season arrives... But there's still some Awesome Diving

JM and Alex Post-Dive Planning

The slightly later than normal start to the wet season finally arrived this month with conditions a bit rougher than the near perfect conditions we've had since October.  that said, we still had plenty of time for some awesome diving.

This month saw JM return from Cebu to complete his full DSAT TecTrimix course with Alex from MDA in Manila.   Both of these guys are highly experienced divers (Course Directors and Instructors in fact!) which made this course an absolute please to teach. 

Sadly our final post-course dive didn't happen as the outskirts of Tropical Storm Egay led to some rough seas and we all decided it was best to save the now blended gases for another day to make the dive in better conditions.  were looking forward to seeing JM again soon in the near future so we can team up again with Alex and made a slightly delayed post-course dive past the 100m mark.

Alex getting to grips with multiple bottles underwater...

...and on the surface

"Terrible" Weather

The weather for the rest of the month was great for half the month, not so great for the remainder of the month.  The peninsular geography of Anilao between two large bays means that even on rough days one side of the peninsular is normally pool like conditions. 

The secret Bay site to the East of the Anilao Peninsular is best know for the many macro critters and muck diving - but it also make a great spot for skills training and videos - we made the most of a few rough days by completing some additional skills videos for the Hammerhead CCR series we have on our YouTube channel, as well as some Open Circuit skills you'll see go on there soon.



Check out some of the sample skills in the links below:

Bail-Out to Open Circuit:

High PPO2 Procedure:

1 Cell Voted Out Procedure: