Dive Review of Capt'n Gregg's in
Philippines/Puerto Gallera/Sabang

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Capt'n Gregg's, Mar, 2013, by Tom Diehl, HI, US ( 1 report). Report 7372.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving
Snorkeling
Overall Rating
Value for $$
Beginners
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Comments	Capt'n Gregg's is one of the oldest resorts on the beach in Sabang. It has six older rooms, and a recently completed addition with seven or eight newer rooms, four having ocean-side views. You can get rooms with or without air-con, short- or long-term. All have TV. The food is plentiful, well prepared, and inexpensive. No matter where you stay in Sabang, at one point or another, your dive-guide will take you to eat at least one dinner at Capt'n Gregg's. Many dive sites are usually within 15 minutes of the shop, which, like the resort itself, is on the waterfront. Each trip is a single-tank dive, with surface interval spent at the resort, eating some soup or sandwich. The the staff gets together with the cutomers the prior afternoon to discuss where everyone would like to dive the next day. Drift diveers and photographers can usually all leave on the same boat and get dropped off at sites close enough for the boat driver to keep track of everyone. Technical divers, if there are any, are usually dropped off first, then the drifters, then the photographers. If you are the only one diving that day, lucky you, you call the spot!! You'll want at least one trip to Verde Drop-off, a 45-minute ride into the Verde Passageway. The abundance of fishes, and corals, is breath-taking. There is some current, but on most days the photographers will have ample opportunity to see nudibranchs, eels, and coral. Usually a sea snake will show up. This is an all-day trip. Since it is a longer boat ride, there is an additional charge. The interval is spent on a beach at Verde Island, and then it is either back to the drop-off or on to "Washing Machine." Photographers will love the muck diving in the Manila and the Batangas Channels, and the non-camera toting divers might enjoy them, too. Giant clams, gunards, seahorses, nudibranchs, all love the warm, murky channel.
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	Over 1000 dives
Where else diving	Kwajalein Atoll, Pensacola, Puerta Vallarta, Cozulmel, Cancun, Roatan, Belize, O'ahu, Ni'ihau, Kau'i, Lanai, Maui, Hawai'i, Palawan,
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny	Seas	calm, currents
Water Temp	81-82°F / 27-28°C	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	20-100 Ft/ 6-30 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	Most dives have only time/air restrictions, depending on experience, as evidenced by guides. Dive times are agreed upon prior to descent, but only to give boat drivers an idea of when you'll be popping up in the current, if there is one.
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	1 or 2	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	1 or 2	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish
Large Pelagics
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities
UW Photo Comments	There are several spots to go to for great photos, but sometimes the current is really ripping, and taking the camera along is a wasted effort. The boat operators and guides always check tide tables. Proximity to China Sea allows for some wide fluctuations in currents, but the guys usually have the spots figured out.

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Dive Review of Capt'n Gregg's in Philippines/Puerto Gallera/Sabang

Capt'n Gregg's, Mar, 2013,

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Dive Review of Capt'n Gregg's in
Philippines/Puerto Gallera/Sabang