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Dumaguete (Dauin) Dive Sites
PURA VIDA HOUSEREEF
The house reef is located just in front of the resort, ideal for shore dives. The sandy bottom
slopes down from one to twenty meters and there is also a 12m long steel boat wreck. There
is a large variety of rare species on the reef. An ideal place for training, excellent fun for
night-dives and macro photography.
MASAPLOD
A beautiful marine sanctuary which can be reached by our boat in ten minutes. You can see
big fish schools, huge snappers and sweetlips, stingrays and different kind of scorpion fishes.
Usually you will also meet a huge turtle.
DAUIN
Just around the corner we have a spot for something special! Seahorses, ghost pipe fishes,
frog fishes, different kind of lion and scorpion fishes and nudi branches are very common.
And the place we call eel garden is also unique. Excellent place for training and night
dives.
APO ISLAND
We can reach this highlight of the Visayas in half an hour by boat. Spectacular and colourful
drift dives with big fish schools, turtles, sea snakes and barracudas. Beautiful coral gardens
with a large variety of coral fishes. We are sure that one of the ten first class dive spot will
soon become your favourite.
CLOWN FISH CITY
The famous Clown Fish City is located in the Sanctuary of Apo Island . In the shallow part of
this dive site there are some coral blocks covered with sea anemones and hundreds of clown
fishes. If you are lucky you will meet also Napoleon fishes and a school of jack fishes.
These are only some of the most important dive sites - there are many more very interesting
dive spots around Dumaguete.
Siquijor Dive Sites
TUBOD SANCTUARY
This protected area is just in front of the Dive Center and is having the best corals of the
entire island, over 173 different kinds of hard corral are found here. This diversified place
you can dive in different depths between 5m and 20m. The shallow part are some shallow
walls and the deeper part is a hard coral slope. There you can see a large school of blue
spine unicorn fish, parrot fish, nudibranches of many colors, razor fish, clown fish, some big
groupers and sometimes a sea turtle and over 15 giant clams. This place is also excellent for
snorkeling.
MAITE POINT
This dive is very good for a sunset dive. The maximum depth is with 15m quite shallow and
the dive spot is a highlight for macro photographer and the famous Mandarin fish. It's the
home of more small fishes like the famous mandarin fish and nudibranches, Pipe fish, ribbon
eel, Pegasus, Baracuda and the Spanish dancer. If you do a night dive there you will see
additional marine life like cuttlefish, octopus and big sea Slugs.
TAGOT SHOAL, SUNKEN ISLAND
This dive site is not even on the nautical charts but you will see lots of fish there. It's 10 min.
north-west of the dive center and the flat top of the shoal is at 12 meters deep and slopes
down to 25 / 35 meters, if planned well you can make two spirals around it and see
everything there. You can see big schools of Big mouth mackerels, Fusiliers, Anthias fishes
and Damsels. Hunting Tunas in the middle of clouds of anchovies. Sometimes large
barracudas, Eagle ray, sea snakes and turtles.
SAWANG
This shallow dive is also good for beginners because of the maximum depth of 18m and the
nice variety of corals and bottom composition. There are many big coral blocks you feel like
diving in a canyon and a small tunnel is also there where you can dive through. There are
many small fishes like; different kinds of clown fishes, Jaw fish, Scorpion fishes and
sometimes also mandarin fishes and Sea Turtle.
PALITON WALL
This spectacular wall goes down to 36 meters with in the beginning at 30 meters a
spectacular cathedral with Black corals and Lion fishes. Along the wall are nudibranches,
flatworms, eels, scorpion fish, Golden sergeants, Fusiliers and Big mouth Mackerels. Quite
often you can find at the reef edge Blue ribbon eels, Clown Angler fish and fire gobies.
These are only some of the most exciting dive sites around Siquijor Island- there are many
more great dives spots around Siquijor, in total 23.
The diving fee’s in the San Juan district is 100 pesos (1.65 euro) per day per diver.
PURA VIDA HOUSEREEF
The house reef is located just in front of the resort, ideal for shore dives. The sandy bottom
slopes down from one to twenty meters and there is also a 12m long steel boat wreck. There
is a large variety of rare species on the reef. An ideal place for training, excellent fun for
night-dives and macro photography.
MASAPLOD
A beautiful marine sanctuary which can be reached by our boat in ten minutes. You can see
big fish schools, huge snappers and sweetlips, stingrays and different kind of scorpion fishes.
Usually you will also meet a huge turtle.
DAUIN
Just around the corner we have a spot for something special! Seahorses, ghost pipe fishes,
frog fishes, different kind of lion and scorpion fishes and nudi branches are very common.
And the place we call eel garden is also unique. Excellent place for training and night
dives.
APO ISLAND
We can reach this highlight of the Visayas in half an hour by boat. Spectacular and colourful
drift dives with big fish schools, turtles, sea snakes and barracudas. Beautiful coral gardens
with a large variety of coral fishes. We are sure that one of the ten first class dive spot will
soon become your favourite.
CLOWN FISH CITY
The famous Clown Fish City is located in the Sanctuary of Apo Island . In the shallow part of
this dive site there are some coral blocks covered with sea anemones and hundreds of clown
fishes. If you are lucky you will meet also Napoleon fishes and a school of jack fishes.
These are only some of the most important dive sites - there are many more very interesting
dive spots around Dumaguete.
Siquijor Dive Sites
TUBOD SANCTUARY
This protected area is just in front of the Dive Center and is having the best corals of the
entire island, over 173 different kinds of hard corral are found here. This diversified place
you can dive in different depths between 5m and 20m. The shallow part are some shallow
walls and the deeper part is a hard coral slope. There you can see a large school of blue
spine unicorn fish, parrot fish, nudibranches of many colors, razor fish, clown fish, some big
groupers and sometimes a sea turtle and over 15 giant clams. This place is also excellent for
snorkeling.
MAITE POINT
This dive is very good for a sunset dive. The maximum depth is with 15m quite shallow and
the dive spot is a highlight for macro photographer and the famous Mandarin fish. It's the
home of more small fishes like the famous mandarin fish and nudibranches, Pipe fish, ribbon
eel, Pegasus, Baracuda and the Spanish dancer. If you do a night dive there you will see
additional marine life like cuttlefish, octopus and big sea Slugs.
TAGOT SHOAL, SUNKEN ISLAND
This dive site is not even on the nautical charts but you will see lots of fish there. It's 10 min.
north-west of the dive center and the flat top of the shoal is at 12 meters deep and slopes
down to 25 / 35 meters, if planned well you can make two spirals around it and see
everything there. You can see big schools of Big mouth mackerels, Fusiliers, Anthias fishes
and Damsels. Hunting Tunas in the middle of clouds of anchovies. Sometimes large
barracudas, Eagle ray, sea snakes and turtles.
SAWANG
This shallow dive is also good for beginners because of the maximum depth of 18m and the
nice variety of corals and bottom composition. There are many big coral blocks you feel like
diving in a canyon and a small tunnel is also there where you can dive through. There are
many small fishes like; different kinds of clown fishes, Jaw fish, Scorpion fishes and
sometimes also mandarin fishes and Sea Turtle.
PALITON WALL
This spectacular wall goes down to 36 meters with in the beginning at 30 meters a
spectacular cathedral with Black corals and Lion fishes. Along the wall are nudibranches,
flatworms, eels, scorpion fish, Golden sergeants, Fusiliers and Big mouth Mackerels. Quite
often you can find at the reef edge Blue ribbon eels, Clown Angler fish and fire gobies.
These are only some of the most exciting dive sites around Siquijor Island- there are many
more great dives spots around Siquijor, in total 23.
The diving fee’s in the San Juan district is 100 pesos (1.65 euro) per day per diver.
