Dear All

We are an English couple who live and dive in Davao, Mindanao, South Philippines. We have live here for 1 year with the purpose of diving/dive photography and undertaking exploration dives to find new places/record the marine life here. We are both keen photographers with pro-equipment.

We also use Davao as a base for other areas withinn the Philippines, Micronesia and Indonesia (1hr40mins to Palau, 1hr to Nth Sulawesi).

Both of us are PADI MSDT Instructors and we have now been travelling out of the UK for approx 5 years. Three years were spent on the Southern Turkish Med coast, much of the other time around SE Asia.

We love the Philippines for the huge range of coral/marine life biodiversity and also for the people who are amongst the best people we have met anywhere in the World.

Interesting facts about us; we recently took part in the most expensive recovery operation for 1 person ever in the Philippines. We are Philippine Airforce Search and Rescue civilian volunteers and - with 4 Filipino friends - we recovered the body of a missing climber from Lake Venado (altitude 7200ft) on Mount Apo.

This ensured continuing tourism on the mountain and the spiritual well-being of the local tribe that lives on the mountain.

Diving here is World class, with us having probably the best macro site in the Philippines - I'll post seperately about this.

Hope this gives readers a flavour for who we are and what we are about.

Look forward to contributing to the forum.

WWD