Summer season in Yap includes our annual Photo/Video workshop event, MantaFest where the resort is bustles all day with diving, good times and photo/video training. Our daily workshop schedule is being tuned up and we thought we'd share some of highlights. Frank Schneider - Mixing sunlight and strobes the easy way - Model & people...

Ikelite is sponsoring demo camera systems at this year's MantaFest photo & video workshops - Aug 24th - Sept 8th you can dive Yap with an Olympus TG-5 in an Ikelite housing. This system is highly respected for it's performance in shooting macro subjects with Olympus' microscope mode. During all of the dive days at...

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Best of Show - Jim Decker Best in Class dSLR - Dan Norton Best in Class Compact - Lee Shinwoong

Big Animals First Place - Jim Decker Second Place - Dan Norton Third Place - Chris Forbes Honorable Mention - Chris Forbes Reef Scenic First Place - Ken Sutherland Second Place - Chris Forbes Third Place - Chris Forbes Honorable Mention - Jim Decker Macro First Place - Jim Decker Second Place - Jim Decker...

Big Animals First Place - Ann Donahue Second Place - Lee Shinwoong Third Place - Lee Shinwoong Honorable Mention - Ann Donahue Behavior First Place - Julie Nefczyk Second Place - Ann Donahue Third Place - Ann Donahue Honorable Mention - Jimwoong Kim People, Island & Culture First Place - Diana Bullion Second Place -...

The crew is getting spun up on a digital upgrade to your dive briefings. Assisted by 3D mapping technology and Ocean Maps ap, our guests are getting an enhanced orientation to their dive plan. OP Acker is spearheading this improvement and working with the crew on familiarizing with the new waterproof hardware. These tablets will...

Yap Divers haben eine eigene Korallenzucht ins Leben gerufen. Am beliebten Makro-Tauchplatz Slow & Easy, an unserem nächstgelegenen Riffkanal, haben wir mehrere baumartige Strukturen versenkt an denen jetzt Setzlinge verschiedener Arten schnell wachsender Geweihkorallen in der Strömung hängen und so Nährstoffe zugeführt bekommen. Mögen sie prächtig gedeihen!   Natürlich zeigen die stolzen Korallen-Farmer unseren Gästen...

A new development on the dive dock is a "choose your dive experience" style scheduling board. Bill has been developing an improved diver experience and just launched a new dive schedule where you get to choose your dive day from the day's options. We schedule two-tank dive site combinations and post visual summaries that you...

Yap Divers started an in-house coral reef restoration project with several nursery trees getting setup at Slow n Easy, our nearest channel and famed macro dive site. Fast-growing branching coral colony samples are hanging in the new nursery, several species of staghorn corals were selected to seed this initiative. When you are diving Yap, check...

Dive Micronesia in a shark sanctuary learning about shark ecology with conservation experts who will presenting the latest state of sharks and how we can protect them. This event is two-weeks, October 12th to 26th, 2019 with special dive plans that focus on shark interactions. Get the best of blue water Yap diving with International...