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Uwe Nehls, founder and managing director of Schoener
Tauchen, visited Pura Vida Beach & Dive Resort over
Christmas and New Year with his family and friends.
During this holidays the older son David get
certified as a Junior Open Water Diver and the
younger son Peter as a Bubblemaker, congratulation!
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Former Siquijor branch
manager visited Sea Explorers and Pura Vida. Marcel
& Joanne Kestenholz with their kids Miguel and Xenia
spent their holidays in Negros and Siquijor.
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Paul Munzinger, well
known German underwater journalist and author,
visited Sea Explorers again in December and went on
safari with a group of friends. They visited
Moalboal and Dauin-Dumaguete area on their trip.
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Like in the passed years Tauchsport Klose from
Austria came for Island Hopping in 2007 with
different groups. Karin and Wolfgang were guiding
their guests personally through the Visayas and
visited all our branches.
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Always fun to have our repeating guests and friends
Biggi and Hardy Zielauf from Germany back on board.
On their last evening in Pura Vida they invited the
Sea Explorers staff for free beer, thanks a lot we
really appreciate that
J!
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Michael Meier of diving school Poseidon, Zollikon-Zurich,
Switzerland visited us in November with a group of
ten friends in Dauin-Dumaguete and in Cabilao. On
the picture during briefing and welcome drink in
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Beatrice and Rolf Tanner,
very regular Sea Explorers guests for years already,
enjoy the new Jacuzzi in Love’s Lodge Moalboal. |
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Beginning of November
André
Baerlocher and
Urs Zbinden
from Berne region in Switzerland were certified in
Pura Vida by Course Director Chris as PADI Master
Scuba Diver Trainer (MSDT). Both of them did already
their IDC with Chris a few years ago in the
Philippines. They
were now able to climb another step upwards in their
Dive Instructor career by passing 5 Specialty
Instructor Courses, congratulation!
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Hiroshi Karube, a Japanese Diving Instructor living
in Manila, visited Pura Vida Beach & Dive Resort
with a group beginning of November.
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Tauch Team Linz (TTL,
Austria) first time
with Sea Explorers in the Visayas. Christoph Selgrad
visited together with his group our branches in
Siquijor, Alona Beach
and Moalboal. On the picture at the Kawasan
waterfalls in Moalboal area together with Sea
Explorers-”Tour guide” Matthias Wirz.
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Phil & Marilyn Hiatt, Underwater-Journalists from
UK
visited us for several times already in the Philippines. Their last article
which was released in the September edition of the
Sport Diver Magazine can be gleaned on their webpage
www.philhiatt.com
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As well not for the first time we get visited by
Doris Schirl and Peter Sacher from Abyss Divers Linz
(Austria) with a big group. They were diving around
Moalboal, Dumaguete, Siquijor and Cabilao. One of
the dive groups was already very lucky on their
first diving day in Moalboal when they had a whale
shark encounter.
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The Diving Club Winterthur (Switzerland)
went on safari with Sea Explorers. The group is
guided through the Visayas by Lee, Ray and Bileg and
they were visiting our branches in Moalboal, Cabilao
and Dumaguete.
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The smiling
fish and its model
Sea Explorers’
smiling fish get visited by its model Joy Kohler-Jipulan.
Together with her husband Beat “Bonzai”, the
designer of the fish and creator of our slogan “dive
with a smile”, and the three children spent their
autumn holidays in the Visayas after a few years
break. The picture was taken on a dive at Pura Vida
housereef beside the newly sunk easy ride.
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Katja and Peter Kobelt spent their honeymoon at Pura
Vida Beach & Dive Resort and ended their stay with a
romantic candle light dinner at the beach.
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Visit of
Schoener Tauchen Switzerland Staff in Pura Vida
Beach & Dive Resort:
Doris Boccali (lady in the warm jacket), a travel
agent of Schoener Tauchen Switzerland, spent her
diving holidays together with her friend Michael
Wettstein in Pura Vida Beach & Dive Resort. On the
picture together with Pascale from our head office
in Cebu City.
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Bill Acker the “MANTA MAN” together with his wife
Patricia, the owners of Manta Ray Bay Hotel and Yap
Divers in
Yap,
Micronesia
visited Pura Vida Beach & Dive Resort in August.
Chris and Martin know them well from the diving
fairs in Europe and Chris was visiting them last
year in Yap. They are also member of
Quality Divers.
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Again a young newly wed couple in Pura Vida Beach &
Dive Resort. Rilana and Matthias Faisst from
Switzerland
combined their Honeymoon with diving holidays in
Negros.
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Becky Chan, PADI instructor and a long time friend
of us visited us again in Pura Vida with some
friends from Hongkong and mainland China .
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Our very regular repeaters Monika and Franz
Giovanoli from Switzerland visited us this time
together with their sons Pascal and for the first
time also Patrick.
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Daniel Strub and his Philippine wife Annabel from
the French speaking part of Switzerland visited together with their friends
our branches in Malapascua,
Alona
Beach and Dauin-Dumaguete.
They were accompanied by Hervé, our branch manager
in Dauin and good friend of Daniel and Annabel.
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Annabel Strub and Aurelie Picaud enjoy their first
diving experiences in the Pura Vida swimming pool
together with our instructor B-Bing.
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The Open Water Diver blessing of Stephane Progin is
conducted by his Instruktor B-Bing in Dauin.
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Family Loosli from
Switzerland
together with Jeanine Murer visited several Sea
Explorers destinations. On July 20 Samuel celebrated his
18th birthday in Pura Vida, congratulation
again. On the picture present with Christine Cardo and
the dive guides Chito and Carlos.
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The students
Chul-Wook Kim, Ji Hyeong Heo,
Hee Gyo Jang, Jimin Hwang, Woo Sub Choi and Jae-Hun
Chung from
Korea
enjoyed their first diving experience together with
B-Bing and Chris in Pura Vida Beach & Dive Resort.
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As
well good friends and very regular guests for many years
are Ulrike and Uwe Rzeha from
Germany. This time they
visited Cabilao and Dauin. Uwe is a well known
underwater photographer and won several awards already.
A portfolio of him can be visited at
www.aurumspace.com
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Our
long time Swiss friends Max Zuercher, who is living in
Florida
and Rolf Stampfli who is based in Australia visited us in Dauin again.
Rolf and Chris have met each other the first time
exactly 20 years ago in Moalboal.
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Dexter Yeung and his friends Ivan, Mars, Candy and Billy
from Hong Kong spent a few days in Pura Vida Beach &
Dive Resort and were diving in Apo Island
and Dauin area.
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For
the second time already Anita & Daniel Filippi together
with Sylvia & Francois (Sam) Fiechter from
Basel area in Switzerland
spend their diving holidays Sea Explorers. This time
they are visiting our branches in Malapascua, Cabilao
and Dauin-Dumaguete.
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As well repeaters and
good friends from Bern area in Switzerland, the
honeymooners Sonja and Rene Hiltbrand-Caletti and
“almost” honeymooners Regula and Rony Steimle. After a
nice diving day trip to
Apo
Island the well deserved
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Nina
Carpio and friends from Manila
visited Pura Vida Beach & Dive Resort and enjoyed a day
trip to Apo Island
for their first time.
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Always very welcome in the Sea explorers family are our
German friends Rosi and Georg Heinze. For many years
they are visiting some of our branches regularly. Thank
you very much for your continuous loyalty and all the
presents every time you visit us
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Robi
Frommenwiler from Schoener Tauchen Switzerland went with a group on
safari in May with Sea Explorers. They are visiting
Moalboal, Pura Vida Beach & Dive Resort in Dauin and
Jollibee in Dumaguete
City (2nd picture) and then
Cabilao and as the last destination
Alona
Beach.
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Tanja
& Alois Lautner and friends from the diving club
Scubbuddies in Erlangen, Germany
are hopping from Moalboal to Dauin, then to Cabilao and
as the last destination they are choosing Malapascua.
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Also
in this year Marianne and Georges Goette from Coral
Tours in Switzerland are
going on safari with Sea Explorers. With a big group
mostly from Basel area they are
visiting Dauin, Cabilao and Malapascua.
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Record holder in Sea Explorers safari matters is without
a doubt Tauchsport
Kaeser
from Bern,
Switzerland. Since 15
years Olga
and Heinz are traveling regularly to the Visayas with
groups. This year they started in Moalboal, continued to
Siquijor and Dauin and ended the safari in Cabilao.
Thank you very much for the long-standing loyalty!
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Paul Darden and his group from
Belgium visited our branches at
Alona
Beach, Siquijor and Dauin
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Visitors from Diving Club
Solothurn,
Switzerland.
Karin and Christian Uldry met their club mate Rolf in
Pura Vida Beach & Dive Resort and enjoyed an after dive
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Claire and Ziad El Zein from Key
Largo travel agency in France, Marine
Biologist Steven Weinberg and his wife Marie-Xavier and
the famous Turkish underwater photographer Alptekin
Baloglu visited together with a group the Visayas. Some
of the group members visited first Malapascua Island
before they reached Negros.
In Pura Vida Beach & Dive Resort after the daily dives,
Steven conducted some lectures on marine biology. On the
last evening Steven and Alptekin showed a selection of
their best pictures taken in the last days. |
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Very regular guests already from
Erlangen area in Germany.
Doris and Martin Jaegers of Sailfish Diving visited with
a group, fortunately most of them repeating guests,
first Pura Vida
Beach
& Dive Resort
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Anke and Rainer Lange and their daughters Katharina
and Johanna, Susanne and Marcus Erb and Susanne
Grosse, together with Frank Thomas and daughter
Alyssia from Germany are
spending already for many years the diving holidays
with Sea Explorers. We are always very happy to have
you here with us!
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“Schoener Tauchen“-Safari group picture with wet
feet. On the way from Moalboal to Dauin the group
was visiting the
Kawasan
Falls. Even with wet feet
the mood was great.
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Eight members (Alain, Christian, Jean Claude, Luc,
Ludovic and 3 x Michel) of the “Club d’Exploration
Sous-Marine d’Aquitaine” from
Bordeaux
in
France
are spending their diving holidays in Pura Vida
Beach & Dive Resort.
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Alois Maenner from our agent “Bunte Urlaubswelt” in
Austria
visits with his group our branches in Malapascua, Alona Beach
and Dauin.
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On March 13 Ludwig Haslauer can celebrate his
TENANDFORtieth birthday in Pura Vida Beach & Dive
Resort with a lechon party and firework,
congratulation and all the best!
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John Swinnen and group from
Belgium started their holidays
with Sea Explorers at
Alona
Beach, then they continued
to Dauin and finish their stay with thresher sharks
and mantas in Malapascua. |
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Christl Van Zandbergen and group from
Belgium
are our guests in
Alona
Beach and Dauin. On the
picture together with Danielle and Jose Sola from France.
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Oswald “Ossi” Pohn and friends from
Linz and Kaernten area in
Austria
visited our branches in Moalboal and Dauin and some
group members continued as well to Cabilao.
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Florence Vuillemier and Matthias Wirz from Switzerland get certified in February as PADI Divemasters by Matthias Grieder in Pura Vida Beach & Dive Resort. Congratulation and all the best in their future diving career! |
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Simon and Marc Goss from Germany get certified as Advanced Open Water and Nitrox Divers by our Instructor Mr. Lee during their two weeks stay in Pura Vida Beach & Dive Resort, congratulation! |
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Irene and Christian Hofer from Germany visited Sea Explorers already the third time. This time they even celebrated their 31st wedding anniversary with us in the Philippines, congratulations! |
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For the second time JJ Brandt Corstius, Managing Director of Scott Haldane Foundation in the Netherlands and Harm Kahmann (ENT-Specialist) are conducting a Diving Medical Seminar for doctors in Pura Vida Beach & Dive Resort in February. There was even some time left for diving. Some of the doctors even start their diving career during the seminar week with our instructors B-Bing, Lee and WäWä. |
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Peter Brakhoff of Sailfish Diving and his friends from Erlangen area in Germany visited Pura Vida Beach & Dive Resort in January 2007. |
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Frank, Andrea, Marcel, Normen, Rosi, Tobias from Germany spent their holidays from 30.12.06 - 12.01.07 in Moalboal and Cabilao. On the picture together with Flore Firlay of Cabilao Beach Club. |
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| Alexey Seleznev and his group from Tomck in Western Siberia visited our branches in Malapascua and Dauin-Dumaguete in January 2007. |
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The fourth and last Austrian group of Tauchsport Klose for this season spent their new-year’s eve at Pura Vida Beach & Dive Resort before they moved to their last destination Moalboal. |
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Klose group No. 3 on island hopping tour. Starting in Moalboal last week of November they visit Dauin-Dumaguete, Siquijor and Alona Beach on their trip and end up in Cabilao middle of December. |
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The first three November weeks the Klose group No. 2 with 15 guests from Austria and Germany is hopping around the islands. All Sea Explorers destinations except Malapascua are on the schedule. |
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Small beach party after almost three weeks diving holidays in Pura Vida Beach & Dive Resort. Eddy Karabulut and Katja Scheinert from Germany invite the Sea Explorers Staff for drinks and pizza before their departure, thank you very much! |
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| End of October beginning of November Adriana Klerkx and John Bolle from Belgium are visiting our branches in Moalboal, Dauin-Dumaguete and Malapascua with a group of 20 divers. |
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Reto Luethi and Matthias Wirz are visiting Pura Vida Beach & Dive Resort in October and do some courses. Matthias is an old friend of Martin and Chris and grew up in the same village. |
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