Dive Review of El Galleon Dive Resort in
Philippines/Mindora

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El Galleon Dive Resort: "The Wow Moment at Isla Verde", May, 2022, by Patrick Ritter, CA, USA ( 2 reports). Report 11921.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving
Snorkeling	N/A
Overall Rating
Value for $$
Beginners
Advanced
Comments	Most dives follow a typical pattern. Get ready, backflip or stride in, assemble the group, blow some air, and descend together. Clear your ears going down, and stop at some shallow depth to check out your gear, adjust buoyancy, and get squared away. Everyone gives the ok, and you head out. That’s the basic pattern. If you’re lucky, after a while you come upon something good, or maybe even great. In rare cases, you encounter something spectacular. Then you may experience the Wow Moment, that instant when you are awed by some sight, or panorama, or phenomenon of nature. Might stop you in your tracks. Well, not your tracks really, perhaps stop you in your bubbles. The Wow Moment doesn’t happen every dive, or even that often. These days, you’re lucky if it happens at all. If things aren’t going right, you might instead have the Oh No! Moment. In extreme cases, even the Oh **! Moment. With a few other dive ...** Subscribe to get the full story. Active subscribers continue reading here
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	501-1000 dives
Where else diving	Raja Ampat, Bonaire, Roatan, Great Barrier Reef, Sea of Cortez, Panama, Cozumel, Turks and Caicos, Virgin Islands, Aruba, Hawaii, California.
Closest Airport	Manilla	Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny	Seas	surge
Water Temp	82-84°F / 28-29°C	Wetsuit Thickness
Water Visibility	30-120 Ft/ 9-37 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	no
Enforced diving restrictions	[Unspecified]
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	yes
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
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities	N/A
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities
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Dive Review of El Galleon Dive Resort in Philippines/Mindora

El Galleon Dive Resort: "The Wow Moment at Isla Verde", May, 2022,

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

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What I Saw

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Dive Review of El Galleon Dive Resort in
Philippines/Mindora