Amazing view of Manukan island from above – this is amazing view of Manukan island from bird’s eye view. So beautiful. What you see here is the entrance jetty to Manukan island. This island is most visited island by tourist who come to Kota Kinabalu for vacation. Snorkeling is the most popular activity around this island. Scuba diving is not allowed near Manukan island reef area. Photo credit: @ahalim_hamid
Sapi Island In Cloudy Day – what you see in photo above is Sapi island, well, part of it (at left side of the photo) and Gaya island (small part of the island in right side). This photo was taken on 26-27 January 2019 at the time when Kota Kinabalu receives slight rain for several days. Only rain. No strong wind. No big waves. No thunderstorm. Just water falling out from the sky. We go out diving anyway. Still safe. photo credit: @coconuttravel
Just in case you are wondering where we go out scuba diving in Kota Kinabalu, this is the place we dive every day. In Kota Kinabalu we got more than 20 dive sites. All spreaded within Tunku Abdul Rahman National Park area, called TARP for short. If you are looking for information about scuba diving in Kota Kinabalu, we are here to help. We will publish more updates in the future.
Find Go Aquatic In Surface Interval – Now you can book for dive trips in Kota Kinabalu marine park in Surface Interval, a website dedicated for scuba diving enthusiasts from any place around the world. We just open our profile there to make any diver can book easily and write review about Go Aquatic easily. It is kind of Trip Advisor for scuba divers. If you free, have a look at Go Aquatic Surface Interval profile.
Short Intro About PADI Advanced Open Water Course – PADI Advanced Open Water Diver Course is for who?
It is for certified diver who has scuba diving license. It is also for any scuba diver how has valid dive license from well known governing body in scuba diving industry such as PADI, NAUI, SSI or SDI.
Normally PADI Advanced Open Water Course in Kota Kinabalu takes 2 days to complete. You will do 6 dives. 1st dive is a refresher dive.
All 5 dives after that are called as “Adventure Dives”. You have to complete all 5 dives to get certified and to become PADI Advanced Open Water Diver.
No exam and no theory classroom. You will learn in practical hands-on style. Advanced Open Water certification enables you to dive up to 30 meters in any area on the planet.
Scuba diving Kota Kinabalu 3 New PADI Open Water Course On 28 December – Today we are joined by 3 new PADI Open Water Diver Course participants.
All of them are from China and will be here for Kota Kinabalu scuba diving in Kota Kinabalu marine park which is only 15 minutes from city center. They will learn scuba diving in selected dive sites in open sea within marine park area.
Why most Chinese tourists love to spend their holiday time in Kota Kinabalu? It is because short travel time via airplane from mainland China to the city center of Kota Kinabalu.
Several airline companies such as Malindo Air already provide daily flight route from Beijing, Changsha and Chengdu to Kota Kinabalu everyday.
Kota Kinabalu-Shanghai route is serviced by three airline companies, they are Spring Airlines, Eastern Airlines and Malaysia Airlines (two).
After finishing their PADI Open Water Course in Kota Kinabalu, these tourists will go back to China.
Some of them choose to go for holiday in other areas in Sabah such as Semporna after completing their scuba diving course.
Scuba diving in Kota Kinabalu – Where We Dive. In this short post we will talk about the place where we go out scuba diving in Kota Kinabalu everyday. The place called as Tunku Abdul Rahman National Park (TARP for short).
Many called it as Kota Kinabalu marine park. Some people write it in their social media posts as Tunku Abdul Rahman Marine Park Kota Kinabalu.
This marine park consists of 5 islands. The islands’ name are Gaya island, Sapi island, Mamutik island, Manukan island and Sulug island.
The biggest island is Gaya island. It is the only island in Kota Kinabalu marine park that located next to the city center. Gaya island is the most populated island compared to other islands.
Sapi island is the island next to Gaya island. Sapi is the third largest island in Kota Kinabalu marine park.
The 2nd biggest island is Manukan island. Manukan island is oval shaped island facing Mamutik island and sulug island.
For scuba diving lessons and scuba diving courses such as Discover Scuba Diving or PADI Open Water Course in Kota Kinabalu, our team usually starts students’ basic lessons in Sapi island.
After that they will move to another dive site in another island such as behind Gaya island.
You can see the island’s location in map below. In next short posts, we will share about each island in detail and dive sites around each island.
Scuba diving in Kota Kinabalu Malaysia – Today on 27 December 2018 we receive 8 new PADI Open Water Diver Course students from China.
They will be learning scuba diving basic skills with Go Aquatic dive team in selected dive sites in Tunku Abdul Rahman National Park (official name for Kota Kinabalu marine park) which is only 15 minutes boat ride from the jetty.
They start their PADI Open Water Course in Kota Kinabalu with registration session in Go Aquatic dive center in Wisma Sabah. After completing their registration, Go Aquatic team member will bring them to Jesselton Point jetty to get ready for depart to dive sites in Kota Kinabalu marine park.
Scuba Diving Course In Kota Kinabalu – Diving packages now available at Go Aquatic. If you are looking for scuba diving packages, scuba diving trip or scuba diving course in Kota Kinabalu Malaysia, you’ve come to the right place. Here’s the course and packages available now for you to join and book
Leisure dive trip – 3 dives
Guided Snorkeling – 3 trip
Refresher Course – 3 dives
Discover Scuba Diving – 2 dives
PADI Open Water Course – 4 dives
PADI Advanced Open Water Course – 6 dives
PADI Rescue Diver Course
Emergency First Response
PADI Divemaster Course
To ask for more info you can contact us by using our online contact form available in this blog below. Your personal information is safe with us and will not be given to any third party.
This blog is about scuba diving in Kota Kinabalu. We will talk a lot about scuba diving in general written in short posts.
What is Go Aquatic? It is a name for a 5 star dive center in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia. The word “aquatic” refers to underwater world, the ocean and recreational water sport activities.
Go Aquatic focuses on scuba diving in Kota Kinabalu most of the time. We train and educate scuba divers. Means, we trained new divers, we provide courses for already certified divers and we train people to become professional divers who choose doing scuba diving as their full time career. If you wanna learn scuba diving and wanna become a better diver, we invite you to come to Go Aquatic. Free consultation available.
8 New PADI Open Water Diver Course Participants – Today (we mean 10 December 2018) we are joined by 8 PADI Open Water Diver Course participants. They all are from China and will be here in Kota Kinabalu for several days to complete their scuba diving course. During registration process they received their own PADI Open Water Course manual book together with their diver’s log book. Here they are taking group photo in front of Go Aquatic dive center in Wisma Sabah.
Discover Scuba Diving In Kota Kinabalu – What is Discover Scuba Diving? Is a basic learning program created for non-divers to try scuba diving without a need to sit for exam to earn dive license. Discover Scuba Diving is for fun. It is for anyone to experience scuba diving in more relaxing way.
Anyone can join!
You dont need good swimming skill to join Discover Scuba Diving. You will learn with professional scuba diving instructor. The instructor will take good care of you and will monitor all your movements closely to ensure your safety.
DSD is short for Discover Scuba Diving in diver’s lingo. So if you want to join Discover Scuba Diving, you can come into any PADI dive shop in Kota Kinabalu then ask for DSD.
Emergency First Response Course in Kota Kinabalu on 12 December 2018 – Today we are welcoming 2 new Emergency First Response Course (EFR) participants. The one in black shirt is from Kota Kinabalu and the other is from mainland China. After finishing up EFR Course they will continue to learn PADI Rescue Diver Course on the next day. Scuba diving in Kota Kinabalu is not just enjoying the fun. It is also about learn more diving skills to save others during emergency situation.
Scuba Diving Course Kota Kinabalu – You might wanna know what scuba diving courses right now with us. Go Aquatic is a PADI 5 Star Dive Center.
PADI is short of Professional Association Of Diving Instructors and it is the biggest governing body in scuba diving industry. As PADI Dive Center, we use PADI teaching method and we follow PADI teaching standard to train new beginners. Here’s the complete list of scuba diving course in Kota Kinabalu.
How to sign up for scuba diving course in Kota Kinabalu?
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