Blog's Volunteers amongst Singapore's first National Geographic Divers

Singapore's first NG divers: MI Stephen Beng, DM Debby Ng, DMT Jimmy Woon, DM Jeff Greig, and OWSI Vincent Chew.

Our volunteers are National Geographic Divers!

The Hantu Blog is extremely thrilled by the progressiveness of our volunteer divemasters, who never cease to develop their dive skills and expand their knowledge of the underwater environment. It is often overlooked that in order to protect our reefs, a diver has first to possess the adequate dive skills that make research gathering more efficient, reduce if not eliminate environmental damage, and of course to ensure safe and fun dives.

The National Geographic Diver course, conducted in partnership with PADI, the most widely recognised diving certification in the world, is a program designed to enhance the adventures of diving by teaching divers to explore with detail, identify important underwater features and navigate with certainty.

As part of this course, our volunteer divemasters were required to map a section of Hantu's reef along a transect line. This gave new insight into the life of the reef, reinforcing the rewards of moving slowly and maintaining neutral buoyancy while observing and documenting life on the reef. As a wrap, some very cool presentations were prepared and shared, allowing volunteer divemasters to identify and gain new techniques, methods and prespectives of observing our reefs.


Hantu Blog volunteer divermaster, Jeff Greig: Now part of an elite group of explorers, adventurers and conservationists.

Dive skills are something you never stop honing in on. The more you dive, the more you learn about yourself, and the underwater environment. We're really proud our volunteer divemasters have decided to compliment their skills and passion for marine life by taking on this course.

Now, with more competent reef guides, exploring our amazing local waters can be more exciting and meaningful. All of us look forward to sharing Singapore's ever-surprising reefs with renewed vigor!

More information: Seahounds PADI NG Divers