start your own dive shop?

[wateranbu]

Hi sorry for the late response...Our place is in San Roque, Macrohon So. Leyte. We are near maasin city. In Maasin City there are hotels, restaurants, and grocery stores. In our place we have one dive shop that you can also dine and stay.....there are no restrictions in constructing or planning with the area.... when it comes to the permits it's very easy to get such.... we can build native cottages and a dive shop / diving school....it is very easy to put up a business here. Actually, you could visit our place for you to see what we can offer.
If any inquiries please do call yvonne 09283007265

[wateranbu]

hi with regards to the facilities and accessibility we have that, our place is very near Maasin City it is just a boat ride from Cebu City...There are hotels, restaurants, and big grocery stores....With regards to the permits it is very easy to secure all of those.....if you are asking how potential having a business here especially dive shops it is very good. Owning a business? Not difficult...
'til next....

[Jack]

from your last thread, i see that you are preferring to open a dive shop rather than a diving center, is there a special reason for this, am also interested about this if its still available.

[wateranbu]

hi yes it is available, actually it can be a dive center or dive shop. if you are interested you can view the pictures we posted or you could call yvonne 09283007265....

[wateranbu]

oh just want to clarify it is +639283007265

[Jack]

Nice place, but is it really easy to get the DC license?.

[wateranbu]

yes it is very easy to get the neccessary license when starting a dive shop, anywhere here in the philippines. Because the philippine governments new project is aiming to increase its tourism destination in the country. Which makes it easy for both foreign or local investors to start their business here in the philippines.

The Southeast Monsoon or "Habagat" just hit the Philippines and caused the beach to look ugly,its a natural phenomena. But the beach now is clean.

please feel free to call us on this number and look for Yvonne:
+639283007265

[ginesdemafra]

Originally Posted by wateranbu

Southern leyte, Philippines is home to the worlds biggest fish the "Whale Shark", and that's not all. This part of the island has one of the richest marine life in the country, and in its depth lies a Japanese shipwreck dating back to WWII during the battle at Leyte Gulf, and it is also the birth place of christianity in the Philippines, since the first mass was held at Limasawa island(only a 45 minute boat ride from the port of Padre Burgos).

Do you want to open a dive shop here in San Roque, Southern leyte? We are currently looking for investors who wish to tie-up with us.
We have an 800 square meter lot with a concrete house with two regular rooms, one masters bedroom w/ bathroom, and a native cottage with a bathroom. We are very open to ideas of developing it into a hotel.
Those who wish to invest a dive shop with us will get a 200 square meter lot for his/her dive shop "FREE OF CHARGE".
for more information please contact: +639283007265 look for Yvonne

Limasawa, site of "first mass"?

Though I'd comment on this side issue about the southern Leyte isle.

Magellan did not go to Limasawa either. Or Butuan.


The place where Magellan’s fleet anchored and where an Easter mass was celebrated on March 31, 1521 was not Butuan. Or, Limasawa.
It was in the island-port named Mazaua. Being an island, it was surrounded by sea water.


There is an article at Wikipedia on Mazaua where all the properties of Mazaua–its location, size, kind of port, shape, the name of its king, its flora and fauna, distances from Homonhon to the port, latitude, etc. etc.–are explicitly defined. Click Mazaua - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
A fairly comprehensive but not exhaustive historiography of the Mazaua issue is contained in an article published in the website of the Italian nuclear scientist and Italian translator of Dr. Jose Rizal, Dr. Vasco Caini, at http://www.xeniaeditrice.it. When the page opens scroll down to the article Mazaua.


The notion the March 31, 1521 mass was held at Butuan comes from the garbled account by Giovanni Battista Ramusio. It is such a corrupted translation of the original that the account is not Antonio Pigafetta’s at all. In this translation, which Henry Harrisse says is a plagiarism by Ramusio of an anonymously published book that saw print in 1534 (no one has seen this edition) and republished in 1536 (which is extant), Ramusio removed “Mazaua” and replaced it with Butuan.


The Butuan error stayed uncorrected for 266 years from 1534 or 1536 until 1800. The error was detected in a book containing the authentic Pigafetta narration of the Magellan voyage, edited by the ex-Augustinian polymath Carlo Amoretti.


But in correcting the error, Amoretti made a colossal blunder which was only detected in 1996 by the author. Amoretti in two footnotes surmised that Mazaua (his exact names for the island was Massana and Mazzana) MAY be the “Limassava” island in the 1734 map of the Philippines by French mapmaker Jacques N. Bellin. This map was an exact copy of the most famous map ever made in the Philippines by Fr. Pedro Murillo Velarde, the edition of 1734.


Amoretti, by way of offering proof to support his assertion, states Limasawa and Mazaua are in the latitude given by Pigafett, 9 degrees and 40 minutes North. This is wrong on three points: 1) Limasawa’s latitude is 9 deg. 56 min. N; 2) There is no island at Pigafetta’s latitude; 3) There are two other readings of latitude for Mazaua, 9 degrees North by The Genoese Pilot which is supported by the Portuguese squadron leader, Antonio de Brito, who embargoed all objects found at the flagship Trinidad including a number of logbooks and other papers, and 9 deg. 20 min. North by Francisco Albo, the Greek mariner who piloted the Victoria back to Spain on Sept. 6, 1522.


The notion Combes’ Limasawa was Magellan’s Mazaua where the “first mass” was held is a false notion. Combes nowhere says his Limasawa is the port where the fleet moored on March 28-April 3, 1521. Nowhere does Combes say there was any mass held in his Limasawa or anywhere in the Philippines for that matter on March 31, 1521. To verify this, go to the English translation of the 3-paragraph story by Combes of Magellan’s sojourn in Philippine waters. Click The great island: studies in the ... - Google Book Search. The original Spanish text may be accessed at The United States and its Territories, 1870 - 1925: The Age of Imperialism: Historia de Mindanao y Joló, por el p. Francisco Combés ... Obra publicada en Madrid en 1667, y que ahora con la colaboración del p. Pablo Pastells ... saca nuevamente á


Where then is Magellan’s port today? The answer may be found at the ff. Wikipedia articles:


1. First mass in the Philippines –First mass in the Philippines - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


2. Carlo Amoretti — Carlo Amoretti - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


3. Gines de Mafra — Ginés de Mafra - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


4. Mazaua — Mazaua - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


5. Francisco Combes — Francisco Combés - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


6. Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas — Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


7. Andres de San Martin — Andrés de San Martín - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


8. Ruy Lopez de Villalobos — Ruy López de Villalobos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


No serious scholar of Magellan historiography today still thinks Limasawa is Mazaua. Only the National Historical Institute and fanatic advocates (not scholars) of Amoretti’s Limasawa hypothesis still think the southern isle is or can be Mazaua.


Ironically, some writers from Butuan think in the same way as NHI itself. For what unexplained reason, it’s not clear.


The only remaining problem is whether the suspect isle of Pinamanculan-Bancasi is really Mazaua. This issue is not historiographical. It is archaeological, i.e., there is need to come up with artefacts directly traceable to Magellan, Gines de Mafra, and a number of other recorded visits by Europeans in the 16th century.


These artefacts cannot be produced by further historiographical conversation. It is only by digging that concrete evidence may be found.


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[wateranbu]

Thank you for the Information about the Limasawa Island, though I am not a Historian I simply referred my knowledge of the first mass in Limisawa in the Philippines, through my Philippines History class during High School and College. But the information I know is inaccurate since many have also claimed that the first mass was held in Cebu. But I do appreciate your post. But as I know, the Informations and or Articles in Wikipedia is also Fallible, and inaccurate. I myself have proven that since I edited or corrected some Articles, but I do not need to mention them. But one way of finding out the truth is by simply visiting the place. The same house that we still advertise is still available, and it is of the moment a hostel, the rooms for rent ranges from $11-$15 a day, we are still open to developing it into a dive shop until further notice.

[wateranbu]

Regarding the Rooms for rent. For those who wish to have a reservation please call us at this number 09283007265 and look for yvonne.