About Us

You as the customer are the most important thing to us. We do everything to ensure that you will have the best time of your life on your vacation in Malapascua. We offer all the benefits of a large established dive center, but with the personal feel of a small shop environment.

We believe the diving here is amazing and we want to show you the best of what we have. We know you will have the most fun with us quite simply because everyone here, from the owners to the boat staff, loves diving and loves our jobs. The staff are always laughing and joking with each other and with you, which always makes the boat a fun place to be.

And the fun doesn’t end with diving. The dive shop is right on the beach, and is a relaxing place to hang out. There is always someone around for a chat, or you can grab a drink and browse through our comprehensive selection of fish ID books and dive magazines. Our bar is a great place for an apres-dive beer and has a lively Happy Hour and evening crowd.

When diving somewhere as special as Malapascua, you need an experienced operator and experienced dive guides. After 20+ years diving Malapascua, you cannot find better, and the TSD team know the Malapascua dive sites inside out. They will ensure you get the most out of each and every dive.

There are, quite simply, no dive shop owners or managers on Malapascua that have spent as much time on the island as our team. So you know you will be getting the benefit of their vast experience.

Our experienced international management team have worked all over the world and comes with many decades of varied experience between them. This ensures Thresher Shark Divers caters more for you, for the customer’s benefit, because they can see first-hand what it is you need. They have a love for the underwater world that is obvious to see. What better qualification to be your hosts and your tour guides of what they believe is truly some of the best diving in the world.

When you dive with us, everything is easy. All you do is unpack your equipment on arrival and we will do the rest. We carry it to the boat, set it up (if you wish) and will help you into your scuba unit. Our staff will even put your fins on for you if you want.

After the dive, don’t even think about walking your kit back to the shop, the TSD team will do that all for you. Apart from the obvious safety issues associated with heavy exertion and lifting after diving, we believe that as you are on holiday, you should have the hard work done by someone else.

The dive shop is run by our team of Managers, all PADI Master Instructors, headed by Leon, our Operations Manager from the Netherlands, and Toni, our Spanish Head Instructor and PADI Course Director.

Leon and Toni are backed up by our multilingual instructor team, as well as from Malapascua. Our Filipino Instructors have worked their way up through TSD through the TSD PADI Pro Sponsorship program. Most have worked for us for over 10 years, and some started as compressor boys or boat boys. They have all turned into fantastic instructors, and we couldn’t be prouder of them.

Our PADI diving instructors have been through a rigorous training program, and each has many years of teaching experience with hundreds of students. We take great pride in teaching students of any level.

Diving lessons are almost always one-on-one, and there will usually be an assistant as well. So you will get individual attention and diving instruction will go at your own pace.

You can be assured that with us, you will have only the best: top quality service, unrivalled professionalism and a safe and most of all fun diving vacation from start to finish.

Tata, Rissa-May, Marvin, Junjie, Ronnie, Wilbert, and Mark are our Filipino PADI Divemasters. They are all PADI-certified divemasters with current PADI status. Rissa, Marvin, Junjie and Mark are also part of our PADI Instructors. They have been diving Malapascua’s fantastic dive sites for a long time, and some have completed over ten thousand dives on Malapascua.

They know all the dive sites inside out and can show you many things you have probably never seen before. If there is something you want to see, just ask. With their laser eyes, they can spot things you would never have seen. They are particularly adept at managing the special needs of photographers. Previous divers, including some professional photographers, have called them the best dive guides they have ever had.

Leon and Toni are officially in charge of TSD. But the shop is really run by Gret and Gen. The ladies oversee our office team, who will attend to all your needs in the dive shop.

And not to forget the unsung heroes of any dive shop, the back-end crew, who look after your equipment, fill your tanks, and load the boats. Along with Gerard, our dedicated equipment maintenance and repair guru.

Senen, Gino and Ronnie are our boat captains, ably assisted by our boat crew. Together they make a great team, they are very friendly and competent and will help you however they can.