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Freediving and Apnea

We are currently in the process of planning/discussing the introduction of a new activity, freediving.

With the launch of this activity, interested parties would have to commit to the trainings, etc.

http://www.aidainternational.org/

SO WATCH OUT FOR THIS SPACE!

Dive September

Finally, the long-awaited dive trip!
We have been getting tons of email asking us when is our next dive trip..

And here are the details:

Pulau Tioman (Paya Beach) on the 21/09 - 23/09 or/and 28/09 - 30/09

The prices are as follow:
Basic Open Water course : $590
Advance Open Water course : $550
Leisure Trip : $380

Non-SIM students are welcome to tag along, however, with an additional fee of $10.

All prices are inclusive of meals and accomodation in Malaysia, land and sea transfer, equipment, certification and instructional fees, theory, pool training and open sea dives and materials for the Basic and Advance Open Water Divers.

There would be one theory and one practical session which can be easily arrange during the week before the trip. Each session last approximately 4 hours. The course date would be decided nearing to the week.

Only after payment/deposit is made would your attendance be considered as confirm. An itenery will be send out once everything is finalized.

We will leave for Malayasia on Friday evening at around 7pm (time to be confirmed on a later date) and will be back to Singapore on Sunday at around 11pm (this will depend on the weather conditions such as current and wind.)

The dateline for the registration for the trip is 9/09.

And another thing to take note of is that we currently have two organization, PADI (Sunny Cove) and NAUI (freelance). We'll have a vote and go along with majority, so please state in your reply email which organization you would much prefer. Should you have any strong objection to the chosen organization, please do contact me personally.

http://www.padi.com/scuba/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_Association_of_Diving_Instructors

http://www.naui.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Association_of_Underwater_Instructors

Any further enquiries, please feel free to drop me an e-mail or text me @ +65 9007 8487

Hope to see you guys on this trip!

Cheers,
Cheryln Ang
SIM Dive Club.

July'12 Dive Trip

Here are the details of the first trip of the year!

Date : 6th July 2012 – 8th July 2012 

Venue : Pulau Aur/tioman 

We can have a voting system to see which the majority prefers! 

Conducting Operator : Sunny Cove 

Estimated Costs: (SIM Students/ Non-Members) 

Open Water Diver course - 575$SGD 

Advance Open Water Diver course - 535$SGD 

Leisure Dive - 365$SGD 

SIM Dive Club members will receive a different rate. An additional of 10$SGD for Non-SIM students. The dateline to sign up for this trip is on 24 June. 

Please do email me at simdivingclub@gmail.com or pm me via Facebook (Cheryln Ang) if you're interested or should you have any enquiries. 

Cost includes: Dive materials for the student 
Rental of dive equipment 
Transportation Food and accommodation

Simple Itinerary

http://sunnycove.com.sg/dive-courses/recreational/open-water-beginner/

Pulau Aur

Friday
1845 Hrs	Gather At Sunnycove Office
2100 Hrs	Short Supper Break In Malaysia
2330 Hrs	Overnight Stay at Mersing hotel or Night Transfer Reaching Pulau Tioman Around 0200 Hrs Sat (day or night transfer depends on the tide)
Saturday
0800 Hrs	Check In resort
0930 Hrs	Open Sea Dive No. 1
1400 Hrs	Open Sea Dive No. 2
1600 Hrs	Open Sea Dive No. 3
Sunday
0800 Hrs	Open Sea Dive No. 4
1000 Hrs	Open Sea Dive No. 5
1430 Hrs	Departure from Pulau Tioman
2230 Hrs	Expected Arrival Time To Singapore

Pulau Aur

Friday
1845 Hrs	Gather At Sunnycove Office
2100 Hrs	Short Supper Break In Malaysia
2330 Hrs	Boat Transfer From Mersing to Pulau Aur
Saturday
0400 Hrs	Check In resort
1030 Hrs	Open Sea Dive No. 1
1400 Hrs	Open Sea Dive No. 2
1600 Hrs	Open Sea Dive No. 3
Sunday
0800 Hrs	Open Sea Dive No. 4
1000 Hrs	Open Sea Dive No. 5
1430 Hrs	Departure from Pulau Aur
2230 Hrs	Expected Arrival Time To Singapore

Cheers xx

Cheryln Ang 

WE ARE BACK!!

Hello everyone!

 I apologies for the lack of updates on this blog. But I'm proud to say, we are back!!

 Here are the recent updates on the SIM Dive Club
 - Hand over of EXCOs
- The plan of recruiting active members and the activities every other week.
 - Dive trips ... TBC

Update!

Congratulation to all Open Water and Advance Open Water divers certified on 19 September and 22 August. Keep diving and explore the wonders of the underwater world! :D

Trips keepsake are update on our facebook group.

Relish!

Ethan

Upcoming Dive Trips

Hello all!! Details for upcoming trips are finalized!

TRIPS SCHEDULE
MONTH	AUGUST	SEPTEMBER	SEPTEMBER
DATE	20 TO 22 AUG	17 TO 19 SEPT	24 TO 26 SEPT
DESTINATION	DAYANG	TIOMAN	DAYANG
CLOSING DATE	30TH JULY 2010	30TH AUG 2010	30TH AUG 2010
PRICING (for TIOMAN & AUR)
BASIC	$550.00
ADVANCE	$510.00
LEISURE	$380.00
Inclusive : equipment rental, training, materials, lodging, food, certification, taxes, transport, FUN and LAUGHTER !!
Exclusive : Ramly Burgers !!

Email us @ simdivingclub@gmail.com for more information. Cheers!

*Edit: All trip are filled!!

Ethan

HELLO people of the world!!

We are back from Tioman! Congratulation to all Open Water and Advance Open Water divers on their certification.

WATCH OUT for our next trip to Dayang/Aur coming mid-august.

Do join our group on facebook to get more updates. Email address left in the tagboard have been noted, we will contact you soon after details are finalize.

Cheersss :)))

Ethan

Sim Dive Trip to Pulau Dayang!!!

Dear all,

The response to our upcoming dive trip is overwhelming.
I am glad to announce our next dive trip will be to Pulau Dayang on the 4th - 6th September 2009!

The prices are as follow:
Basic Open Water course : $580
Advance Open Water course : $530 (Free optional pool refresher)
Leisure Trip : $380 (If haven dive for more than a year, MUST do refresher - $20 if join on going class)

All Open Water, Advance and Leisure includes:

1. All transportation, lodging, food, diving materials and rental of diving equipments

2. Jacket

3. t-shirt

4. Dive Log Book (Leisure not included)

5. Club facilities (for pool sessions)

6. Quad share for lodging in Dayang

7. Live on Board (LOB) $50 voucher for future dives

THE PRICES WILL INCLUDE A 10 COURSE CHINESE DINNER ON THE TRIP BACK TO SINGAPORE!!!

Pls also take note that Theory and Pool sessions will be held early August. Dates to be confirmed after all of you have confirmed your places!

We will leave for Malaysia on Friday evening from Republic of Singapore Yacht Club (RSYC) at around 7pm (time to be confirmed on a later date)
and will be back to Singapore on Sunday at around 10pm (this will depend on the weather conditions.)

As spaces are limited, please reply to this email asap latest by 18 July 2009 to confirm your slot and to avoid disappointment.

Attached to this email is an excel document, ONLY After you can confirmed that you are going,

Will you fill up your details and send it back to us.

After that, we will contact you individually for a deposit of $250 to finally confirm your place for this trip. (please take note that there will be no refunds for last minute canceling.)

Thanks!
Any further enquiries, please feel free to drop us an e-mail. :)
Hope to see you guys on this trip!

Cheers,
Aaron Sze
SIM Dive Club

Long awaited Scuba Diving Trip!!!

Dear all,

We have been getting tons of email asking us when is our next dive trip.
I am glad to announce our next dive trip will be to Pulau Tioman on the 3rd- 5th July 2009!

The prices are as follow:
Basic Open Water course : $580
Advance Open Water course : $530 (Free optional pool refresher)
Leisure Trip : $380 (If haven dive for more than a year, MUST do refresher - $20 if join on going class)

All Open Water, Advance and Leisure includes:

1. All transportation, lodging, food, diving materials and diving equipments

2. 10 course dinner

3. Jacket

4. t-shirt

5. Log Book (Leisure not included)

6. Club facilities (for pool sessions)

7. Quad share for lodging in Tioman

8. Live on Board (LOB) $50 voucher for future dives

THE PRICES WILL INCLUDE A 10 COURSE CHINESE DINNER ON THE TRIP BACK TO SINGAPORE.

The dates will be as follow as per request.

Theory Class : 20^th June Sat; 9am to 12pm

Pool 1 : 23th June Tues; 7pm to 10pm

Pool 2 : 25^th June Thurs; 7pm to 10pm

We will leave for Malaysia on Friday evening from Republic of Singapore Yacht Club (RSYC) at around 7pm (time to be confirmed on a later date)
and will be back to Singapore on Sunday at around 10pm (this will depend on the weather conditions such as current and wind.)

As spaces are limited, please reply to this email asap latest by 7th June 2009 to confirm your slot to avoid disappointment.

Thanks!
Any further enquiries, please feel free to drop us an e-mail. :)
Hope to see you guys on this trip!

Cheers,
Benjamin Chia
SIM Dive Club

SIM Dive Club is back!!!

Hey Scuba Divers!!!

We are back! We are currently looking to continue to provide leisure dive trips and also dive certification as well. Please stay tuned to our blog and we will update you on any new upcoming trips that we are planning for. So look forward to see God's amazing nature and creation under the sea!! =)

Cheers,

Benjamin Chia

SIM Dive Club

Finally, the long-awaited dive trip!We have been getting tons of email asking us when is our next dive trip.. Our next dive trip will be to Pulau Tioman (Paya Beach) on the 20th- 22th June 2008!

The prices are as follow:

Basic Open Water course : $555

Advance Open Water course : $515

Leisure Trip : $375

All prices are inclusive of meals and accomodation in Malaysia, land and sea transfer, equipment, certification and instructional fees, theory, pool training and open sea dives and materials for the Basic and Advance Open Water Divers.

THE PRICES WILL INCLUDE A FREE SIM DIVE CLUB Tshirt !

Theory sessions for Basic Open Water will be held either on Saturday OR Monday, Confine Pool session will be held on Tuesday and Thursday.

We will leave for Malayasia on Friday evening at around 7pm (time to be confirmed on a later date) and will be back to Singapore on Sunday at around 11pm (this will depend on the weather conditions such as current and wind.) Please view the poster attached along in this email for more details.Any further enquiries, please feel free to drop as an e-mail! :)Hope to see you guys on this trip!

Cheers!

simdivingclub@gmail.com

SIM Dive Club.

We're heading to Dayang!!

Hi Divers,Monsoon is now over and Diving seaon is back once more.
Here's the good news for all of you, we are going to Pulau Dayang!
As for those UOL students, it's a GREAT opportunity for you to relax for a while after the Mock paper. As for the rest, no idea on how to spend the Ang Pow money? Well.. here's a suggestion.. Join us in Dayang!
Details as follows:

Date: 14th - 16th March 2008 (it's the weekend before Easter)
Venue: Pulau Dayang
Last but not least.. the prices:

Open Water: $540
Advance Open Water: $500
Leisure Trip: $340

Applicants who sign up now will also get a FREE T-shirt from us.
It's an opportunity not to be missed!!So do hurry and give us your names to book a slot with us for this trip!

email us at : simdivingclub@gmail.com

Last date of application is on 27th Feb 2008.

GOooodBye Singapore! HElloooOo tioMAN!

30 over pax for this time!

gonna be fun!

Dayang dive trip Reunion dinner!

REEEMINDER everyone!

tmr's the dinner for the Dayang dive trip!
Everyone's invited!


Time: Dinner time. 7pm
Venue:Brewerks

for additional info, contact Gloria!
96249798

Back From Tioman Live On Board!

Its been a few days since we were back from our Live on Board trip to Tioman! And i tell you it was GREAT! Saw so many things we wanted to, including Nurse Shark, Blacktips, Turtle, Cuttlefish! Morray Eel..etc..Pics below! And it was just awesome! It seemed like the perfect trip! There was good company, good food, nice air con bunks, with hot shower and free flow of anything you want on board the MV seaborne! ( I must get a cut from seaborne for advertising LOBs for them! www.mvseaborne.com) I love LOB! don't know why ppl look at the cost rather than the enjoyment of no customs transfer, or bus to boat transfer and lugging your dive bags and equipment all around... zzz.. LOB rocks my soaks man! The motto of LOB, Eat-Sleep-Dive-Eat-Sleep-Dive!





The company comprised of from left to right, kelvin Jesper, Samuel, Myself Marcus Chin (aka urchin man casue he got stug so many times by sea urchin) and gabriel. A really fun bunch to spend 2 days and 2 nights on a boat together! The laughs, sun tanning on the star deck and games of bridge we had! fun fun fun!
















Prata with curry for Breakfast on Sunday!

Steamboat dinner! on A boat! Saturday night!

So we boarded MV seaborne on the 20th of August 2007 at Singapore yatch club! Said goodbye to our footwear (those who went LOB will know why goodbye footwear) And said hello to our home on the sea for the next 2 days!
After a night of star gazing, we hit the aircon bunks! And arose to tioman in the horizon as we looked over the bow of the boat.

Diving time! our first dive Site was Tiger reef! Did some penetration And saw Seaslugs,
Morray Eel and Nemo!
Upon surfacing onto the boat, just leave your gears on the dive deck, change out and helped ourselves to ice cool watermelon to rid the sea out of our mouths!










Clown fish So beauitful!

Next Dive was at Labas, Saw blue spotted ray and the "evil" crown of thrones, which kelvin took and fed it to the urchin. Crown of thrones eat coral! so are pest! We were doing a good thing! haha.

Blue spoted Ray!

Crown Of Thrones

Ringgis was our 3rd dive site! This time saw turtles, cuttlefish changing its colour and more Eels!

Cuttlefish!

4th dive was at Tioman marine park! this time the visibility was not so good! But had a fun time of fish feeding! All the fishes were in a frenzy around us! Did the 7 wreck exploratory dive with kelvin as our dive leader and saw LionFish!

5th Dive was night dive at Jalang Jetty. Where we saw crabs! Giant grouper! Eagle ray trying to burry itself and cute puffer fish!


After The night dive we had our sumptous SteamBoat dinner! and had a change to walk onto land! And if you could imagine, once our feet touched land it was as if we were still rockin on the boat! And we headed back to mvseaborne to end our day of diving and into our slumber we went dreaming of mermaids! haha!



























Next morning we woke ready to dive again!

6th dive was at Jack rock pinnacle!
visibility was predicted to be bad! but we were in the hope of finding lobsters! Well we did not see any lobsters! but Dave our dive leader found a nurse shark in a hole! some of us din get to see though.. too musch silt kicked up already.. haha..


7th dive! Initially visibility at under 12 meters was bad.. But once we hit bottom we discovered an abandoned fishing trap! Poor fishes trapped in it! guess what! two black tips!! We now had to do a recue mission! dave and kelvin to the rescue! i was just the photographer haha! evidence of our good deeds to nature!

So as we went up to 9 meters near jack's rock it was like an underwater aquarium! It was 7th heaven on our 7th dive! haha.. so beautiful! environment.. i was at under 50bars of air but i just wanted to stay under for summore.. so din't tell the dive leader.. please dun do this! please voice out at 50bars and below to begin to surface and do a saftey stop everyone! haha..

neudibranch..(a type of sea slug)

The 7th heaven i was talking about! We all posing in this "underwater aquarium"

August Dive trip!

LOB to Tioman on 20th-22nd July

Hi guys!

Next trip is settled on the 20th to 22nd July.
It will be a live-onboard to Tioman.


Trip Detail:

AOW: $580

includes:
- Original 'Adventure in Diving' Manual

- Rental full SCUBA Equipments (Buoyancy Control Device, Regulator set with SPG and Depth Gauge, Compass, torch light, Mask, Snorkel, Full-Foot Fins, Full-length Wetsuits, Weight-Belt, Tanks and Weights)

- Full meals onboard

- Theory lesson x 1 class

- Ratio of 1 trainer to maximum 6 students

- Immedidate certification upon course completion

- Certification fees

- Exclude: soft drinks, bears, surface marker buoy, batteries for torch light and slate board.


Leisure: $380
inclusive of equipment rental.


Trip capacity: 15 paying pax

Ideally there will be 15 divers from our dive club so that the whole boat will be ours!!! That's gonna be very fun!! But if our side does not have 15 pax, the operator side will have to put outside divers to share the boat.
This trip will only be for advance course and leisure divers.
We are hoping to fill up the boat with divers from our side and be able to go to the outer reefs.
Dive sites such as Tiger reef, Chebeh and Jack rock!
Leisure divers out there, so what are you waiting for?! Sign up today!

Please email us at simdivingclub@gmail.com to sign up or visit us at our booth at SIM Atrium level 2 on th 27th June and 9th, 10th July.

2007 Ripcurl wakeboarding IVP championships

Come and support our school team!!

i know its abit late.. haha

23rd June 07

1pm kallang riverside. along the stadium road.

wish us luck!!

Back from Dayang!!

We're back!! And we would like to thank all of you guys who went for this trip for making this trip a success!! :)

The committee had lots of fun, hope you guys had lots of fun too!
haha.. we heard that some of you are actually having withdrawal symptoms from diving and some of you just cannot get enough of it and are looking forward to the next trip! ;) Great! Personally, I am having withdrawal symptoms from the beautiful, laid-back island life.. Although it was not exactly all that laidback and relaxing for me..haha.. :P

This trip was the first time 3 of our committee members went as Dive Master Trainees (DMTs). It was definitely a significant and memorable trip for us. From writing up the proposal, marketing it through our blog and emails, scheduling the OW divers for their theory classes (in the midst of my own final exams), pool sessions and assisting the OW divers for their pool sessions, reminders and checklists, packing equipment and sending everyone up the coach (yes, we went by a comfortable, air-conditioned 40-seater coach cos we had enough people) to finally arriving at the Dayang resort! Hang on, the adventure did not end here! In fact, that was just another beginning!

Welcome to Dayang!



We set off from RSYC at 7pm and headed to Tuas Second link. We had our dinner and to cut the story cut, we arrived at Mersing Jetty at around 1am and hopped onto our dive boat and headed for our destination!
Some of us sat at the 'star deck' of the boat to see shooting stars (and to me, that is always one of the best thing about diving). There was an episode of 'forest fire' which was actually the moon 'rising' from the horizon, looking as orange as err.. fire. haha..
Alritey, and tada! We arrived at the resort at around 4am. We had 4 person to a room and everyone turned in to have their rest.

Early next morning at 8.30am, everyone set off for their first dive after breakfast!


Waiting faithfully for the dive boat at the Jetty.

We had 2 boats for the divers. 1 boat for the 16 OW divers and the other for the advance and leisure divers.
Despite the small little hiccups we had, O-ring kept bursting before the very first dive, everything else went pretty smoothly. :) Here are some pictures to show everyone hard at work at fixing the O-ring and preparing for our first dive.

Busy at work.

Preparing the descent buoy line.

Rigging up.

Food was delicious and during our surface interval, some of us had a game of volleyball and frisbee. I was too tired to chase after the frisbee so I was practically just walking and jogging around.. :X
The rest of us were busy filling up our log books and sat around for debriefs on the dive. :)

The guys at court, playing volleyball.

Debriefing.

We continued on with our second dive, lunch and third dive.

OW divers after their second dive at Pulau Lang.

OW divers posing under water.

Lunch time! All the hungry divers..

Mermaids?! haha.. it's our OW divers!

Of course, I did not forget our advance and leisure divers! Here are some photos of our dear friends.

Tim, Ben, Wenhui and Raynard. Where is Herbert?!?!

Ziqiang and Ezra. Our newly certified advance divers and committee members!

Diving is a sport. It is not only about the skills and people, but also about the marine lives! Here are some beautiful and colourful marine lives.

Cuttlefish.

Blue spotted ray.

One of my favourite, Christmas tree. It's like colourful mimosa in the water.

Clown fish aka Marlin and Nemo.

We look forward to seeing all of you for the next trip which will be a live-aboard. :)

Meanwhile, save up and check our blog and your email often for more details!