Oasis Explorers

🌊 Welcome to the Team, Pete! 🌊

We are excited to welcome Pete Hamerton as our Dive Centre Manager here at Bunaken Oasis! Pete joined us in June 2024, bringing with him a wealth of experience from over 15 years of educating divers and managing dive operations across the UK, South-East Asia, and Mexico!

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🌊 Welcome to the Team, Pete! 🌊

We are excited to welcome Pete Hamerton as our Dive Centre Manager here at Bunaken Oasis! Pete joined us in June 2024, bringing with him a wealth of experience from over 15 years of educating divers and managing dive operations across the UK, South-East Asia, and Mexico.

Originally from the UK, Pete has been passionate about diving since 2003. He became a Recreational Instructor in 2009 and quickly expanded into Technical, Cave, and Closed Circuit Rebreather (CCR) diving from 2010 onwards. He is a PADI IDC Staff Instructor and a Technical and Cave Diving Instructor with multiple agencies. He also holds qualifications on several CCR units and is currently working towards his CCR Instructor certifications.

When he's not diving, you can find Pete enjoying surfing, playing tennis, or following F1. We're thrilled to have Pete on board and look forward to the adventures ahead!

Join us in giving Pete a warm welcome! 👏🌊

The past few days at Oasis Explorers have been taken up with running two GUE Fundamentals courses for the management team. This course is a foundation in technical diving skills, and is going to ensure that your tech diving experience here in Bunaken is simply flawless! Global Underwater Explorers Bunaken Oasis Dive Resort

Turtle Paradise - Bunaken Oasis — David Keep Photography We’re just back from a week at Bunaken Oasis and what a fantastic trip it was. Bunaken Oasis is stunning, as you’ll see from the photos below. The owners, Elaine & Simon, have spared no expense in setting up this 5* dive resort and spa. They’re underwater photographers themselves, so th

How do you do your pre-dive checks? ⁣
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We always perform our pre-dive checklists as a team with all divers before we enter the water. But we don’t touch each other’s equipment unless necessary and with that diver’s expressed permission. ⁣
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We usually work through the checklists with the least experienced diver in the lead. That way, we can ensure that all divers aren’t pressured to start the dive without knowing exactly what they’re doing. It also helps students to grow as divers, and become more active team members rather than followers. ⁣
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If we didn’t do it this way then more experienced divers may not realise when their team members need assistance; perhaps they’ve forgotten a step or aren’t familiar enough with their buddy’s or their own equipment. The aim is to make safety a team effort and a joint responsibility. ⁣
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Scuba diving can be hazardous if mistakes are ignored or not recognised. As technical divers we must always continue fine tuning or reviewing our skills, above and below the water, in order to continue enjoying the underwater world for a very long time. ⁣
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