Following the half moon this month, and the gentle currents that come with the neap tides, we’ve been enjoying some great diving on Stonehenge, one our favourite dive sites. The diving there has been so good we even dived there 3 times in one day! We’ve been finding Tigertail seahorses, Stonefish, various colourful nudibranchs, schools of chevron barracudas and, as always, the beautiful... Read More

Since Loic, our free diving instructor has been here this season we’ve all taken the opportunity to have some free diving tuition. This has included, stretching, breathing exercises and static breath holding, as well as free immersion, fin kicking technique and equalisation methods. Free diving and scuba diving are not always compatible, we’re always careful not to free dive after scuba... Read More

On December 12th Castaway Divers was transformed into a TV set for filming a pilot show of a Malay drama documentary for TV3! The show is planned to run 13 episodes during which time a group of under 15 year olds with no previous experience will be taught to dive. It aims is to educate kids about the underwater environment. The current plan it to film the series in the Perhentians Islands, Tioman... Read More

Last week whilst diving on Koh Sawang, one of our favourite sites, we found to our dismay, a new fishing net snagged across the pinnacles. Yesterday we went back there and were able to remove the net entirely. It took 2 of our  instructors 2 dives to carefully cut, and de-snag the net which was over 60 meters long and stretched from 22meters deep to around 12 meters. Luckily, as the net had not been... Read More