Buying New or Used?

A major point for consideration when deciding between a new or used Yacht is the time it takes to receive your Yacht. A new Yacht can take a considerable amount of time to be delivered, while a used Yacht will most likely be ready and waiting in the dock.

Although used Yachts can be totally refurbished, the upside of buying a new Yacht is that you can personalise it completely from inception.

What Are You Looking For?

The average size of Yacht ranges between 30 and 100m, and the key is to decide what type of Yacht you’re in the market for. Are you interested in racing across the sevens seas? Or is your main goal to find a luxury venue for entertaining and sun tanning?

A fast planing Yacht may be what you’re looking for if you’re interested in something fast for clocking up those nautical miles between beautiful ports along the Mediterranean coastline. Cruising Yachts are normally propeller or jet propelled, but sailing cruisers, offering good mobility under engine-power as well as sail are also not uncommon.

For those looking for a rawer, more intimate connection with the sea, a sailing Yacht may be more your ideal vessel. Aside from the romantic ideals associated with sailing the seas like an adventurer of old, a sailing Yacht does allow for a more genuine relationship with the ocean. These Yachts bring their passengers into closer contact with the environment and generally provide a more intense experience.

For even more luxury, some Yachts come with every extra under the sun from fully equipped galleys fit for professional chefs, walk in cupboards and Jacuzzis to comfortable cabins and saloons with enough space to accommodate a large group of friends.

These days, Yachts are available with a host of onboard facilities and equipment. Scuba diving gear, water sports equipment (such as jet skis and windsurfing boards) and many other optional extras. Yacht Brokers will be able to find your ideal Yacht featuring whatever toys you are looking for.

Speak to a Yacht Broker

Once you’re more aware of what you are interested in, contact a professional Yacht Broker. They know the industry and specific Yachts well, so not only do you receive advice and expertise from those in the know, but you also get personalised service to cater for your specific needs and wants.

Kelly Wheeler

Mantangale Alibuag Dive Resort is one of the Philippines sought after beach and dive resort. It is known to be one of the country’s most beautiful spot. Mantangale Alibuag Dive Resort is situated south of Bohol Sea and Camiguin, bearing the name to be Asia’s best house reef dives, home with many coral diversity and gifted with the oceans bountiful and mysterious, beautiful fascinating creatures. “Alibuag” is a native term that means “freshwater spring” which is a natural occurrence in many Dive sites at the resort ; Making Mantangale Alibuag Dive Resort as the most famous Scuba Diving Resort in the Philippines.

The resort is located at Balingoan, Misamis Oriental one of the provinces in Mindanao, Philippines, approximately 80 kilometers from Cagayan de Oro City airport which served daily flights from NAIA- Manila’s International Airport and Cebu City (Cagayan de Oro City is known to be the City of Golden Friendship because of the warm welcome Cagay-anon’s give to foreigners and the Capital City of Misamis Oriental) from the airport you can take a cab to Mantangale Alibuag Dive Resort or MADR.

Being the most famous Scuba Diving Resort in the Philippines, Mantangale Alibuag Dive Resort (MADR) is a habitat for eleven diving sites that offers different variety of corals from brain coral to shallow coral gardens, schools of fishes of different kinds, shrimp corals, pygmy horses and many exquisite sea creatures, you can even witness the mandarin fishes mating in the late afternoon!

MADR is definitely not just a Scuba Diving Resort in the Philippines; it is a paradise, a haven of marvelous bio diversity and an evidence of Mother’s Natures abundant wonders.

Mantangale

Saltwater/ocean if it makes a difference. On a clear day with no waves. If you were scuba diving, how far down can you be and still see well with only the human eye/no flashlights? (seeing other people, plants, and animals)

Also, if you were at the surface and looked down(with goggles on at the top of the water) how far down could you see?

Thanks!

Visible light is scattered by water. Below 100 meters light rarely penetrates even in clear fresh water. The rule is the more stuff in the water the less light penetrates. In the tropics where sunlight comes nearly straight down on to the water surface it penetrates further in. Water is a very dense material, people forget that because water has no sheer strength, and low viscosity. The difference in properties can be shown by the difference in the speed of sound between air and water. In air the speed of sound is close to 600 feet/second, while in water the speed of sound is around 4950 to 5000 feet/second. The density of water seriously impedes electromagnetic waves, because of this greater density.

Do they make scuba diving head gear that bring oxygen to the mouth and nose? It would be easier for me to breathe out both my nose and mouth if possible.

Yes, though you will be most likely breathing air (21% oxygen, 79% nitrogen)…not oxygen.

A basic full face mask can be obtained for $100-150, such as this one http://www.scuba.com/shop/display.asp_id_029840 . Masks that are more full-featured will run in the $500-$1000 range.

You should be aware that one of the skills that you need to be able to perform to become a certified diver is to fully remove and replace your mask underwater. This skill requires you to be able to breathe comfortably only through the regulator in your mouth, since your nose will be exposed to the water. I think it would be better for you (and less expensive) if you were to train yourself to not inhale through your nose on scuba than to try to use a full face mask to compensate for this habit.

There is no reason that you can’t exhale through both your nose and mouth with a conventional mask either.

Id like to start scuba diving and want to know the average money id have to pay to do so.

I understand that there are different rates in different stores but a general idea could help get me started.

Also any additional advice for beginners is greatly appreciated

It varies by country, region, and depends on where the open water portion of the certification is conducted.

I’ve heard that around Chicago, it runs $600 to $800.

Here, in Portland, Oregon, it’s about $350 including all equipment rental, class materials, air fills, etc. That does not include weekend travel expenses to Puget Sound or the Oregon Coast (one night lodging, transportation, meals).

My advice is to talk to several different scuba instructors—an informal interview—and see which personality suits you best, and makes you feel most at ease. Some instructors are ex-military and use lots of structure. Others are more nurturing and reactive. Still others are more laid back or intellectual—there are all kinds, and the good ones love to talk about scuba.

The Basic Open Water certification is standardized across all scuba agencies and countries—the big difference is in the specific instructor.

Steer clear of introductory courses which require equipment purchase. That’s scammy. It isn’t a bad idea to buy a mask at some point, but take advantage of trying different masks from rental during training to find which is most effective. The most important piece of scuba gear is the mask. No other piece of equipment can cause as much grief during a dive.