New Wave Divers: Instructors and Guides
Choosing a dive instructor is as important as choosing a dive center. Experienced scuba divers agree: Look for someone you can trust. The dive instructors of NEW WAVE DIVERS have years of experience and are very familiar with Boracay’s dive sites.
| DEBBIE
Debbie Ngo is a PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer. Aside from the basic range of PADI programs and courses, she is also qualified to teach Deep Diver, Enriched Air Nitrox, Wreck Diver, Search and Recovery, and Underwater Navigator Specialty Courses. She started diving in 1996 when she moved to Boracay Island from her native Manila.
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During Debbie's four years as the President of the Boracay Association of Scuba Diving Schools (BASS), she initiated various projects, such as the Recompression Chamber, Plant-A-Coral, the Boracay Coral Reef Monitoring Team, Boracay's First Underwater Photography Contest, numerous Crown-of-Thorn Collections, Beach and Underwater Cleanups, regular maintenance of our dive sites' Mooring Buoys and the latest project-- the sinking of the Yak-40 jet plane to create a New Wreck Dive.
| NOEL
Noel Jimenez was the Operations Manager of Lorenzo Resorts Boracay for 14 years before he became a PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor in the year 2000. Nowadays, he tinkers with his digital camera and shoots divers—shoots photos and videos of divers, that is. He's a Digital Underwater Photography Instructor, too.
Noel is a true lover of nature. He likes to watch the Boracay sunrise surrounded by his two goats, 60 chickens, two rabbits and four dogs in his mini farm. He is always praying for a little rain for his garden. At one time, he became known for growing gigantic bananas.
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| OLIVER
We first met Oliver when he was just 21 years young. He was being trained by his (very strict) brother-- the same instructor who certified Noel as an Advanced Diver. We literally watched him grow up and blossom into an enthusiastic and energetic Open Water Scuba Instructor and Emergency First Response (First Aid) Instructor.
He has been diving for over a decade now, and has work experience in one of the most beautiful but challenging diving environments in the country-- Palawan. But eventually, he came back to Boracay and is now the leader of the Boracay Coral Reef Monitoring Team.
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| BOY
Rogelio Lopez Jr., or "Boy" as he prefers to be called, is a PADI Divemaster. He is one who truly worked his way up the ranks-- starting as a boat captain and a scuba equipment repairman before becoming a dive professional.
Around sunset time, after the day's dives, Boy can be found throwing the Frisbee around on the beach in front of New Wave Divers. Recently, he was interviewed by a television crew for an environmental program. This could be the start of his new career-- show business.
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| JON
Jon-Jon Suarez has been diving for as long as anyone can remember. Coming from a family of dive professionals, he started teaching in 1994. Now a PADI Master Instructor, he has certified over 900 divers, including Debbie and Noel before they became instructors themselves.
Jon-Jon plays a mean game of poker, as well as the Filipino card game "tong-its". He is notorious for eating like a starving horse, but never gaining any weight.
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