Want to do a fun dive in Mactan? Or get your PADI certification?  Dive Funatics offers Fundives, PADI Courses up to Dive Master Level, a range of specialty courses and “Discover Scuba Diving” programs for non-certified divers. It is conveniently situated very close to Kontiki, one of Mactan’s best diving spots.

Kontiki is suitable for dive training as it has sandy shallow water, gentle slope, and a wall that can drop gradually to depths beyond the recreational limit of 40 meters.

iLuvCebu Team with Dive Funatics Dive Masters getting ready

The marine life in Kontiki is very diverse. Variety of nudibranchs are common, you have variety of shrimps, squid, cuttlefish, rabbit fish (danggit), parrot fish (mol-mol), squirrel fish, razor fish, pipe fish, anemone fish (clown fish aka nemo), sardines to name a few. It has a variety of soft, sponges, and hard corals too. The most distinct object is the wreck of the remains of a digger attachment of a crane which is now covered in healthy corals and host to various species.. Kontiki is among the best dive sites in Mactan for night diving where the area is host to a different types of crabs, shrimps, snails, sea slugs, and octopuses. Recently, there had been a few recorded sightings of a juvenile mola-mola in the area.

This is my second time to learn the basics of diving, but my first to do the open water dive. For my brothers, Edd and Reymond, and Charlene, this was their maiden dive. The “Discover Scuba Diving Course” is fairly easy, which takes about 2.5 hours, from the preparation to learning the basic skills, and the actual dive itself. Thanks to the friendly Dive Funatics dive instructors for making the adventure a breeze. Truly an amazing experience. Seeing the beauty of the world under water made me appreciate its beauty and somehow made me more sensitive about marine pollution issues, and inspired me to get involved in protecting it through joining marine conservation efforts.

And before summer ends, grab the opportunity to learn the diving basics with Dive Funatics at a bargain price. Do the discovery dive with 3 of your friends and use the special iLuvCebu discount rate when booking with Dive Funatics. Be sure to mention during the initial reservation that you are using the special iLuvCebu discount rate. The code is valid until the end of May 2017.

You may contact them through email via info@divefunatics.com or by calling them via +639478936560. Like ’em on Facebook too. ^_^

Anchor wrapped in corals

Fish feeding

Open water dive

Corals

Fish Feeding