August Seminar Series
Underwater Navigation Seminar
Friday, August 9, 5:30pm - 8:30pm
The ability to navigate is more crucial underwater than it is on land due to the limited time, visibility, and air you have.
In this seminar, you will learn how to use navigational tools, natural landmarks, and enhance your own diving skills so that you can venture further around a dive site with more confidence.
Nitrox Certification Course
Saturday, August 10, 9am - 12pm
To fully adapt to another world, one must alter the composition of their breathing gas to be fully efficient and safe in that environment. Known also as EANx, the first form of Nitrox was developed prior to WWII and kept secret from civilians until the 1960s. Now, Nitrox takes human adaptation to an entirely new level. A certification in Nitrox diving allows one to venture waters worldwide with grace and evolution.
Taiwan & Philippines Expedition 2024
We started the Taiwan portion of the spring 2024 overseas trip in March and wrapped up the trip in the beginning of April. We ventured down to the southern tip of Taiwan and enjoyed diving in Kenting National Park. We loved the rustic and laid-back feeling of Kenting and we felt we experienced more authentic Taiwan. This was such a fun-filled and memorable trip that we started planning another Taiwan trip while we were still there.
Some of us continued on to Anilao, Philippines, after the Taiwan portion of the trip. We were joined by more Ocean Safari divers there for a 5-nights, 6-day dive trip. Anilao is considered macro photography heaven, but there were more than just tiny critters to see. Of course we saw countless tiny nudibranchs, shrimps, crabs, and fish, but we also enjoyed swimming over a wide field of heathy coral reef teeming with fish. We enjoyed our stay at the resort and had so much fun diving and hanging out with each other. We were discussing planning another trip there before we even started packing for our trip home.
Epic November
It was a record setting November for Ocean Safari. We had five different overseas diving and eco expeditions in three weeks – Galapagos, Ecuador, Cabo Pulmo, La Paz, and Magdalena Bay Sardine Run. Alongside the overseas trips, we also ran local dive trips to Catalina, pool sessions, and seminars. This was one of our busiest November, but it was a month of great adventures and wonderful memories for everyone. We look forward to setting another record in the near future.
OSDT Crafts & Gear Decoration Party 2024
The OSDT creative trio - Meg Itoh, Eros Biox, and Aaron Lyon - will be hosting a crafts and gear decoration event at Ocean Safari classroom.
You can personalize your gear! Bring your wetsuit, gloves, boots, fins, etc. you want to decorate. Join the crafts corner! Bring shells, rocks, stickers, scrapbooking materials, etc. to make stuff with.
We will provide art and crafts supplies, and we will have some sea shells and rocks. We ask that you kindly chip in $20 to cover the cost of the supplies.
This is an in-person event. Please call us to let us know you are attending.
Location: Ocean Safari classroom
Date & Time: Saturday, February 10, 2024, 1pm to 4pm
Ocean Safari 31st Annual New Year Party
Dear OSDT Divers, Family, and Friends,
You are cordially invited to our New Year Party on Saturday, January 6, 2024.
Let's welcome in the new year together!! Bring your family, and friends. We will have food & drinks, slide/video shows, and prize drawing. There is no charge for our party. Rain or shine, let's welcome in the new year together!
Time: Saturday, January 6, 2024 from 12pm - 3pm
Location: Ocean Safari Parking Lot
This event is a pot luck, so please bring one dish or BBQ meat and/or vegetable of your choice sufficient for 4 people (max 4 servings, otherwise we'll have too much food).
BYOB - bring your own beverage/booz.
We will provide BBQ grill and ice chest.
Hang out with fellow divers and exchange diving stories.
We will have filtered water, so we encourage you to bring your reusable canteens. Please do not bring bottled water as a potluck item.
Prize Drawing - we will be giving away prizes totaling over $1000 in value (donated by Ocean Safari and various manufacturers).
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