Dive Review of Diver Dream in
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Diver Dream: "good sabang bay diving", Apr, 2015, by Eldon Okazaki, CA, US ( Top Contributor 54 reports with 6 Helpful votes). Report 8189.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving	N/A
Snorkeling	N/A
Overall Rating
Value for $$
Beginners
Advanced
Comments	The bad: 26 or 27 deg. C is still cold with a 3 mm wetsuit in April; the bad news is that the Sabang Inn was upgraded or modernized; so there is an increase in cost ( 1500 peso/ night with 15% discount for 9 nights stay); the rooms were mostly sold out most of the 9 nights I stayed; the mgr. still tried to find lodging for sold-out customers. The GOOD: now there are 3 dive masters ( Mark died of a heart attack at age of 24 on 4/24/'15 ; they know where to dive if the current is too strong; they are quite good at finding octopus, turtles, eels, banded snakes, frog fishes, nudibranchs, etc.; in fact, there seems to be a nudibranch heaven. There are divers from England, China, Australia, Germany and Holland. That leads to discussions of good dive destinations. But, I did have 2 days where it was just me and the DM. ( 11 dives for 10,000 peso; ~44 peso/ 1 USD) The food at many cafes were usually cheap costing a few dollars up to 1019 peso at highly rated Steakhouse ( which had very tasty beef). A local, Fred, said that April is low season. So, there were not crowded dive sites.
Websites	Diver Dream
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	Over 1000 dives
Where else diving	Cozumel, Coron, Hawaii, Palau, PNG, ABC islands, Caribbean, Malaysia, Thailand, etc.
Closest Airport	Manila	Getting There	fly to Manila; JAM bus to Batangas city pier, ship to Sabang
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, dry	Seas	calm
Water Temp	25-27°C / 77-81°F	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	20-60 Ft/ 6-18 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	no
Enforced diving restrictions	for the deep dive of 30 meters, the time limit was 35 min.; most dives were ~ 1 hour unless the others got cold or ran low on air.
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	N/A
What I Saw
Sharks	None	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	> 2	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish
Large Pelagics	N/A
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities
UW Photo Comments	bucket of water was not needed since most dive sites were < 10 min. away . the UW pro, Thierry E., posted a whole bulletin board of the sea life on the way to the office.

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Dive Review of Diver Dream in Philippines/Puerto Galera

Diver Dream: "good sabang bay diving", Apr, 2015,

Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):

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Dive Review of Diver Dream in
Philippines/Puerto Galera