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Sun Moon Lake and Taiwan tours SCUBA Tours every month!!(new) Diving equipment and adventure (CAMPING) gear for sale Reservations Taiwan Adventure Links & Hostels Kinmen Island and Hualien (Taroko Gorge)NEW!! |
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| Date | Tour/course(Openwater1) |
| May 31-June 1st | Scuba tour to Green Island. Departs Taichung 5/30 at 11:30PM-we can also pick you up in Changhua,Tainan or Kaohsiung or towns between these cities! Cost: NT $7500 plus equipment rental. |
| June 21-22 | Scuba tour to Green Island. Departs Taichung 06/20 at 11:30PM-we can also pick you up in Changhua,Tainan or Kaohsiung or towns between these cities! Cost: NT $7500 plus equipment rental. |
| July 19-20 | scuba tour/course Green Island ( Departs Taichung 7/18at 11:30PM-we can also pick you up in ,Changhua,Tainan or Kaohsiung or towns between these cities!)NT 7500 . excludes equipment Open Water SCUBA course, practical segment. (For students who registered three weeks in advance and completed requirements) |
-Transport to and from Green Island in our comfortable air-conditioned van
including roundtrip ferry tickets all arranged in advance
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For an additional charge, we can also arrange high-speed rail or flights from all around Taiwan to Green Island (just remember, you can fly in for the weekend, but you can't fly out for a certain amount of time after diving)
-Transport around Green Island during the course (you get your own scooter!)
-Accomodation in Green Island
- 2 days of diving
-Education and certification in the PADI system of diving, which is internationally recognized and accepted (see below for more on this)
-All required educational tools and materials as mandated by PADI. All diving students must have these materials to complete their course
-Full equipment for the duration of the course
-English language instruction by a PADI Specialty Diving instructor
bookwork, quizzes, exams, evaluation, all inwater lessons, and certification
-And of course, some of the best diving you'll do anywhere!!
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About Us
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How’s the diving in Green Island ? For starters, the visibility starts at 20m. Add to that the incredible marine topography of this volcanic island, which gives you pits, valleys, walls, canyons, and mountains undersea. Into this beautiful mix place an incredible array of diver-friendly fish schools, snakes, eels, turtles, crabs, lobsters, shrimps and others and paint it all onto a backdrop that includes all the colors of the soft and hard coral rainbow. Let’s not forget that Green Island, due mainly to its unique conditions, is also a major spot on the annual hammerhead shark migration route between Japan and the Philippines. You will be challenged to find better diving. As a destination, Green Island provides a beautiful escape from mainland Taiwan, and offers especially unique tourist attractions, like one of three saltwater hot springs in the entire world. With regard to conveniences and amenities… On Green Island, Taiwanese and Mandarin are the languages of choice. English is rarely understood, and even more rarely spoken. Lucky for you, Green Island Diving has a bilingual Canadian guide to deal with issues of safety and any other concerns. There is a single gas station on Green Island, and though it is daily on of the busiest in the country, it closes around 5:30 in the afternoon, meaning you need to make sure you have enough fuel to last until morning. There are two major convenience stores on Green Island, and they are open late, but the casual traveler should not expect to find “evolved” tourist conveniences they may be accustomed to from other diving locations, like massage, entertainment, or specialty American coffee shops. In addition, the local Taiwanese business people are well aware of their stranglehold on tourism, and they are not easily bargained or haggled with. Sadly, some of them are also seemingly reluctant to accept ideas of ecotourism or other business practices that support environmental sustainability.
This beautiful location lies 33 km off the southeast coast of mainland Taiwan. That means that no matter how you reach TaiDong, there are only two ways to get to Green Island: a privatized ferry company, or a privatized aircraft company. In bad weather (such as a typhoon), which can happen regularly and unexpectedly between May and October, the ferries may be shut down without advanced notice. Flights may also be cancelled unexpectedly. If you are on the island already, it may mean rough entry conditions, or even the possibility that dives must be cancelled due to concerns for the safety of divers. If ferries or flights are cancelled, and if the weather is sufficiently predictable, you may be faced with the choice of early evacuation, or an extension of your stay. Sometimes… the choice is made for you. As well, seasickness is a relatively common experience on the ferries, not because the ride is especially rough, but because many people neglect to prepare for the possibility with medication (Fix this problem simply by taking it ahead of time: it won’t hurt you to have it in your system, though it might not to…). As far as diving conditions go, in Green Island the beauty of undersea is balanced with the realities of nature: because of its position in the ocean, Green Island can experience strong and/or unpredictable currents throughout the day. Sometimes, the perfectly calm dive site you visited last time has a roaring current the next, or sometimes, you met with a current at the first corner of a wall dive yesterday, and today it’s shifted to corner 3. When the surf is up, shore entry can be challenging, though not impossible. When dealt with properly, and with a calm head, surf is easily negotiable, but dives have been aborted at Green Island sites because people have not asked pre-dive questions about preparation or have not felt confident in their ability to get through the surf zone. How do we define “sufficient dive training or experience?” In addition to a recommendation that you hold basic Nitrox certification (or higher), divers coming from outside of Taiwan must be trained to the PADI Rescue Diver level (or equivalent) or higher, have current first aid training/certification, and have a minimum of 50 logged dives. While the certification is non-negotiable, we will waive the 50 dives requirement for those of sufficient training who have been on a diving excursion with us at least 3 times, without significant incident, and/or who have received Open Water, Advanced Open Water, or Rescue Diver training (or any combination of those) with us. All qualifications, dives, and in water behavior will be verified by our staff. We reserve the right to refuse anyone who does not meet our profile for responsibility, training/qualification, and behavior. Finally, all of our potential hammerhead divers should know that a portion of your dive costs will be used to support hammerhead education and conservancy, and promotion of responsible, sustainable tourism in the Green Island area.NEW: Orchid Island packages and diving !!!!! ail: |
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