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The Moalboal Sardine Run
Do you want to go dive with millions of fish today? Well, in Moalboal you can. The area has a permanent shoal just yards from shore and it is an incredible sight to behold. The massive shoal of fish pulses as divers, snorkellers and fish move around it. Occasionally, people see Thresher Sharks here, on a rare foray to shallow water to feed on this mass of fish.
On our dive with Magic Island Dive Resort, we dropped into the water away from the shoal, to avoid getting too close to the many snorkelers you will find in this area. This worked out perfectly, as we soon came across a lovely squid that was willing to pose for our video cameras.
Then it was time to experience the Moalboal Sardine Run. It is a huge school of fish that must be made up of millions of individuals. It can turn the water dark as it blocks the sun as they swim above you. The fish are constantly in motion, feeding and avoiding predators, all moving in perfect synchrony. We even had a turtle swim through the shoal whilst we were diving beneath it.
The dive is a great additional to the wonderful reef and macro dives that are associated with this area. It is a spectacle not to be missed. The dive is in shallow water, where you can dive within the shoal in just a few meters, and then get underneath it at about 10 meters. Underwater photographers can take advantage of this shallow dive and spend their time getting shots of the shoal moving and forming incredible patterns.
The diving is wonderfully varied in this area. So far we have told you about the Mandarin Fish mating at dusk, and the sardine run of Moalboal, next up will be the Whalesharks of Oslob…
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North West-based Dive Centre, Palaemon Divers, has been shortlisted for Leisure and Tourism Start Up of the Year with Start Up Awards 2023.
Palaemon Divers is delighted to be named a finalist in the Awards which celebrate Start Up Businesses and what they have brought to the economy within three years of their launch.
Palaemon Divers was started by Leanne Clowes in the midst of COVID lockdowns. Leanne walked out of her well paid corporate sales job with no savings after a redundancy in a previous role and spending the majority of the year before COVID to follow the dream! After the redundancy and COVID, life struck just a little differently and the pull to become a full-time dive instructor became impossible to ignore!
So with that… notice was handed in, no savings, nothing physical to start being a full time dive instructor other than personal kit at the time – oh and the fact, Leanne was actually an Assistant Instructor at the time and hadn’t attended the instruction exam at that point as there had been none going on through COVID obviously!
However, the first Instructor Exam that was happening out of COVID was booked onto – no pressure at all with no full time job, no money as a back up, mortgage and bills to pay…
Leanne started freelancing as an instructor in the North West using various outdoor locations for training, and the business snowballed and quickly gained its first physical dive centre in January 2022 along with finding their own private in-water training facility at Princes Dock in Liverpool. Since then, 100s of new people from Liverpool and further afield have been introduced to the amazing sport of scuba, and experienced the abundant life under the surface of the dock itself.
In a time of no travel to outside your area or abroad, Palaemon Divers found something new and exciting to introduce the city of Liverpool to those who spend five days a week in the office looking down at the dock and not really being able to appreciate what the dock actually means to Liverpool!
It became apparent during 2022, that although Liverpool was fantastic, more growth was on the cards which came in the form of a second location, Palaemon Divers – Warrington. The second dive centre is an ex micro brewery in Warrington with a central location close to the M6, M62 and M56, spread over two floors which includes a classroom, workshop, compressor and a floor dedicated to retail.
The efforts in building this business have not gone unnoticed with the shortlist for Startup Awards, and also another shortlist which will be announced in the next month.
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In a video shot exclusively for Scubaverse.com, Jeff Goodman reviews the Quilted Polar Hat from leading drysuit manufacturer Otter Watersports.
For more information, visit www.otterwatersports.uk.
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