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Kota Kinabalu Diving Trip 24 July 2019

Kota Kinabalu Diving Trip 24 July 2019 - This is a video recorded on 24 July 2019 showing you how it looks like in our dive boat, on our way to Tunku Abdul Rahman Marine Park (TARP) for our scuba diving activity for the day.

We do Kota Kinabalu diving every day. We go out everyday, every single day. As you can see, on that day we are joined by 5 new PADI Open Water Diver Course Kota Kinabalu participants, 3 certified divers for their leisure diving adventure trip and 1 Discover Scuba Diving participant from mainland China.

Before boat depart, all passengers required to wear safety life jacket and fill in their name in passengers' list for safety purpose. Before we go back to the main jetty at evening after completing all our dives, we will check on every one based on our passengers' list.

Boat ride from main jetty in city center (Jesselton Point jetty) takes about 15 minutes while boat ride from the marine park to the jetty also takes about 15 minutes. See you in a dive trip in Kota Kinabalu!

July 24, 2019

4 Best Kota Kinabalu Diving Shops

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Kota Kinabalu Diving - 4 Best Kota Kinabalu Diving Shops Around City Area. In this posts we will help you identify popular diving shop around KK (Kota Kinabalu). Some of the diving shop sell diving equipment and some of them not, only sell dive course and diving trips.

For us in Go Aquatic, previously we also sell scuba diving equipment in our dive shop but since we are so busy with teaching new divers, we did not focus more on selling diving equipments anymore. For your Kota Kinabalu diving activities, we suggest you to buy high quality diving equipment for your own usage in many dives to come.

For you we will recommend best scuba diving shops we know. Here's the list:

1. Dive Down Below Dive Shop

Location: 33-G, Block F KK Times Square, Pusat Bandar Kota Kinabalu, 88100 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah.
Phone number: 088-488 997
Website: downbelowadventures.com/dive-shop-kota-kinabalu-sabah-borneo-malaysia/

2. Empire Scuba Supplies Diving Shop

Location: E-G, Jalan Inanam Kapital, 22A, Jalan Nountun, Inanam, 88450 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah
Phone Number: +6088532779
Website: empirescubasupplies.com

3. Borneo Dream Diving Shop

Location Address: G27 Wisma Sabah, Jalan Tun Fuad Stephen, 88000 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah.
Phone Number: 017-811 8149
Website: borneodream.com/diveshop/

The best diving shop to find scuba diving equipments in Kota Kinabalu city center is Dive Down Below Dive Shop. They are located in KK Times Square buildings, which is next to Imago Shopping Mall. Their location is about 7-10 minutes from Go Aquatic location (depending on traffic condition) and about 30-40 minutes walk on foot.

Dive Down Below sells entry level to professional diving equipments. Most of them are from best brands in scuba diving and watersports such as Suunto, Mares, ScubaPro, RipCurl, Tusca.

Empire Scuba Supplies located outside city center, about 10 to 15 minutes by car, depending on traffic condition on your travel day. Empire Scuba Supplies is the latest diving shop in Kota Kinabalu in 2019.

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July 23, 2019

Kota Kinabalu Diving Price 2019

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Kota Kinabalu Diving Price - Our Latest Price For 2019 . If you are wondering about the price of our scuba diving packages, here's the list:

Fun Dive / Leisure Dive - 300 MYR

Discover Scuba Diving - 300 MYR per person

PADI Open Water Course - 1030 MYR per person

PADI Advanced Open Water Course - 950 MYR per person

Emergency First Response - 380 MYR per person

PADI Rescue Diver Course - 1000 MYR per person

PADI Divemaster Course - 2600 MYR per person

Our Kota Kinabalu diving price includes all as follows:

a la carte lunch during diving days
bottled drinking water in the boat
full set of scuba diving equipment
marine park fee
diving permit
jetty fee
boat ride
professional PADI Scuba Instructor to teach
PADI course material (manual book)
PADI certification card

How We Accept Payment

As PADI 5 Star Dive Center, we accept payment in various ways.

We accept payments in:

Cash (malaysian ringgit currency only)
Credit Card
Master Card
AliPay
WeChat Pay

We issue payment receipt in every transaction.

July 22, 2019

PADI Women Dive Day 2019

Kota Kinabalu Diving - PADI Women Dive Day 2019 . Our PADI Women Day 2019 event was a success. The event created to celebrate women's participation in scuba diving industry, as recreational diver also as professional diver, working as Divemaster up to PADI Course Director

In the photo above you can see 7 females divers. This group photo was taken before they depart to dive sites in Tunku Abdul Rahman Marine Park (TARP) for their scuba diving activity for the day.

This female diver group consists of 5 new PADI Open Water Course participants, 1 fun dive trip participant, 1 new Discover Scuba Diving participant and 1 PADI Divemaster as group lead.

Thank you for participating in PADI Women Dive Day 2019. See you all again next year!

July 22, 2019

Which One Is Wisma Sabah

Kota Kinabalu Diving - Which One Is Wisma Sabah? The colorful building you see in the middle is Wisma Sabah building. This is the building where Go Aquatic dive center office is located.

Go Aquatic address is at Lot G30, Ground Floor, North Wing, Wisma Sabah, Jalan Haji Saman, 88000 Kota Kinabalu Sabah. We are next to Sentai Tours (managed by Chinese team) and KK New Holidays (managed by South Korean team).

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July 19, 2019

PADI Open Water Course Classroom 15 July 2019

Kota Kinabalu Diving - PADI Open Water Course Classroom 15 July 2019. This is photo of 3 new PADI Open Water Course participants during the start of their theory classroom session for about 4 hours.

The guy wearing green shirt is Mike from Hong Kong. The other two is couple from mainland China. All of them speak good English. Easy for us to instruct them during their theory classroom.

They are joining 3 days PADI Open Water Course in Kota Kinabalu.

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July 18, 2019

What's Inside Go Aquatic Office

What's Inside Go Aquatic Office - The photo you see above is what's inside our main office and multimedia center. Go Aquatic office located in G30, Ground Floor, North Wing, Jalan Haji Saman, Kota Kinabalu.

The room in the middle of the photo is our multimedia center. We use this room for PADI Open Water Course Kota Kinabalu theory class, Emergency First Response theory class, Rescue Diver theory class and Divemaster Course theory class during first day of candidate's participation.

Go Aquatic dive center located in a building. It is an office building called Wisma Sabah. This building is painted with bright orange. Wisma Sabah located in front of Gaya Center Hotel building and so visible from the road because it's bright orange paint.

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July 03, 2019

Kota Kinabalu Diving On June 2019

Kota Kinabalu Diving On June 2019 - our photo blog has been revamped! We will now using Simple layout, so you can read this blog easily.

Here we share several photos during our Kota Kinabalu diving trip with our PADI Open Water Curse participants and PADI Advanced Open Water Course participants.

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June 24, 2019

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