Meet Your Instructors

Sam has been in professional diving since the mid nineties and technical diving on a day to day basis for the last nine years. He is a vastly experienced IANTD Instructor and Instructor Trainer, and DSAT instructor through all levels. All courses up to Trimix, plus DPV programs, are taught in Puerto Galera, and Technical Wreck classes, Sam’s forte, being held on a regular basis in Subic Bay. He involves himself as actively as possible in both domestic and international dive trips, having entertained divers around the Philippines on wrecks in Coron, the Tablas Straits, Fortune Island, Malapascua, Bicol and the Gulf of Davao.

Internationally he frequently has taken groups to the South China Sea, Java Sea, and Truk Lagoon. Sam’s patience, skill, and dedication as an instructor have made him among the most active and successful in the region today.

Ralph is another of the handful of people who involved themselves in Technical Diving in the Philippines from the time of its inception. Again an IANTD and DSAT instructor, and also certified full Cave Diver, Ralph has spent his career between dive shops in Puerto Galera and the Visayas, and operating liveaboards Philippines wide. His spare time often has involved weeks of patient cave exploration around the country, though the huge cave system every technical diver dreams of has so far eluded him.

He currently divides his time between managing a well known local technical liveaboard, ( operating nationwide wreck trips and cave diving trips to the countries best location, Pagluguban Cave ), and very capably helping us here at Atlantis Tech whenever the opportunity allows.