Scuba Diving and Courses with Kontiki Divers

Scuba diving and dive courses with Kontiki Divers Scuba Adventures all year round. We run PADI and TDI technical and recreational courses with small classes so the students can benefit the most out of each course. Conditions are great pretty much all year round with water temperature ranging from 26-30C and air temperature from 25C at night to 35C day time. Learning scuba diving with Kontiki is really fun. Good visibility and small classes make it easier and less stressful. Technical divers will love San Juan Wreck and Marigondon cavern. Kontiki House Reef wall is perfect for technical diver training. Beside courses we offer lots of fund diving on Mactan Island, Olango, Hilutungan, Nalusuan and Cabilao Island. For non-divers PADI Discover Scuba Diving is a perfect way to start underwater adventure. Divers who love makro will enjoy most. At Kontiki House Reef we still see school of sardines from time to time in shallow waters. Night dives are one of our specialties where we can see lots of crabs, shrimps, octopus and moray eels.

TDI Courses at Kontiki Divers

Kontiki Divers is offering TDI (Technical Diving International) courses which include the following courses:

Intro to Tech

This is an entry level no decompression technical course available for Open Water Divers with minimum 25 logged dives who like to learn fundamental technical diving skills which they can apply in their recreational dives and to gain more experience before enrolling in to TDI Decompression Procedures course. After certification divers can use double tank configuration in recreational diving. This course can be done in 2-3 days.

Advanced Nitrox Diver

This is a no decompression course during which you will learn how to use nitrox up to 100%. This can become very handy on some deeper recreational dives where you can use higher nitrox like 50% or pure O2 for additional safety in shallow water. This course is a prerequisite for Extended Range Diver Course. Advanced Nitrox can be done in 3-4 days.

Decompression Procedures Diver

This course is an entry level decompression diving course in which you will learn how to plan and execute a full deco dive under supervision of technical instructor. Maximum depth for this course is 45m. This course is a prerequisite for Extended Range and can be done in 4-5 days.

Extended Range Diver

This course further develops knowledge and skills of a technical diver. Maximum allowed depth is 55m while using air as a back gas and nitrox or oxygen as deco gases. Divers who graduate from Extended Range are ready to take the next step which is trimix or overhead environment courses. This course can be done in 4-5 days if all goes well.

Every scuba diving course is performance based therefore sometimes it may take longer to complete than the number of days listed above.

5 Star Service

Kontiki Divers Scuba Adventures is very proud to announce that it has been upgraded to PADI 5 Star Dive Resort. This very high rating is given to most professional PADI dive centers around the world for their outstanding achievements, professional approach to customers and very high standard in PADI educational system. Kontiki Team will continue great work and service for the diving community and try to improve even more in the best possible way. Just remember whatever you are recreational, professional, technical or non- diver who enjoy snorkelling you are always welcome in our dive center. Hope to see you soon.

Welcome Back!

This is Me Gregory Maciejowski from Kontiki Divers. It has been a while since we have posted anything on our blog. Lets say the blog was in hibernation! Hahaha! Anyway Kontiki Dive Center has been doing great since last year, we have had a busy season, lots of divers, courses, safaris and many exciting stories. Right now we are preparing for the next busy season. There is so much to do like overhaul all the equipment, repaint the dive shop, we are in the middle of writing new prices for the next 2012-2013 season. I thought that the next 3 months we just going to relax but how wrong I was?! Nevertheless it is better to be busy than to do nothing. I hope that you will enjoy the blog stories to come and visit us here at Maribago to do some dives.

Dive Against Debris with Kontiki Divers - Thank you very much!

Thank you very much to Lotty, Ian, Ivy and all Kontiki dive staff for participating in Dive against Debris on September 4th, 2011. Now our House reef looks much cleaner! We found all kinds of debris including: plastic bottles, beer cans, paper plates, glass bottles, shopping bags etc. All these debris were found in just 5 meter deep water which is obvious where it comes from. We wish that all the visiting boats are more careful about the garbage disposal. The reef we have here is not just for us but for the future generations therefore we ask everybody to do the part. Kontiki Divers will organize the same kind of event very soon again. We are thinking perhaps every month to help our reef to look good.

By: Greg Maciejowski

Alta Cebu Village Resort and Diving with Kontiki Divers

Kontiki Divers Team is proud to announce that has joined forces with Alta Cebu Resort which is located in Cordova on Mactan Island. This beautiful resort has more than 50 rooms including function rooms, swimming pool, restaurant, hot shower, cable tv and many other functions. Kontiki Divers is going to provide scuba diving education for guests from Alta Resort. We offer scuba diving experiences, courses, fun diving, day trips, dive safaris and other great diving adventures. The good this about Alta Resort is that they have the swimming pool where we will be conducting Discover Scuba Diving and confined water training from most of PADI diving courses. After initial training in the pool all the students will be transferred to Kontiki Divers in Maribago where they can complete rest of the course in the ocean under direct supervision of Kontiki dive staff. For more information please contact us directly.

By Greg Maciejowski

Dive Against Debris with Kontiki Divers

September 4, 2011 from 9am - 11am, Kontiki Divers is organizing dive against debris in front of our dive center in Maribago. All certified divers are welcome to join for free with exception of entrance fee. During this dive we will collect all the debris and make a report that shall help local government institutions in creating new laws about underwater protection. We need to stand together in order to secure the future for ourselves and our kids so they too one day can come, make a dive and say: "what a beautiful reef we got here". Project AWARE created this event as a additional event towards already existing Underwater Clean-up Days. We wish that all divers, regardless of training agency will join the forces and do something about the state of our oceans. We are planing to start this event on Sunday, September 4th at 9am with a briefing then after assigning teams we all go and do our part underwater then after the dive we collect and log all the debris on the special data card which we will send to Project AWARE. Please let us know if any of you are interested to join and we will be happy to provide more information.

By: Greg Maciejowski