Dive Sites
With more than 30 recreational dive sites and 20 tech sites, we cannot list them all. But as a taster, have a look at some of the site descriptions below
Dive Sites : For Beginners
Puerto Galera is one of the top dive destinations in the Philippines. Luckily if you are new to diving most of our dive sites are well within your training. Our sites are on slopes and so can be done as a fun, shallow dives. Top sites would include
The Sabang wrecks - three small wrecks at 18m. These have a wealth of fish life and are good for several dives. Batfish, lionfish and moray eels are all common. 10~18m
The Hole In the Wall - a fabulous site of hard and soft corals with schools of fusiliers, snapper and jacks. One of our favourite spots. 10~18m
The Clam Farm - huge giant clams and tiny seahorses make this a wonderful afternoon dive. Popular with photographers it is also a great site for new divers. 10~16m
Dive Sites : For experienced divers
Divers come back time after time to Puerto Galera to experience electric drift dives, deep canyons and fun, shallow macro dives. There are sites to suit every style of diver. There is no need to go deep, but the challenging sites are there if you want them. Check out
The Canyons - three bowls at 28m are just full of larger fish. Snappers, grunts, sweetlips, jacks and giant trevally are all in abundance. When the current is running this is a world class dive and is most diver's favourite site. 28m
Sinadigan Wall - more nudibranches than you have ever seen before and pygmy seahorses make this not just a great wall dive but a macro dive too. A favourite of photographers. 10~40m
Alma Jane - scuttled seven years ago, this steel wreck is now home to a large school of batfish, as well as some big snapper, liofish and stonefish. Good for wide angle photography it makes a great nitrox dive. 30m
Dive Sites : For Photographers
Where can we start ? Puerto Galera is justifiably famous as having the most species diversity in the world. There are hundreds of corals, invertebrates and fish to keep you snapping away for months.
Macro - the Clam Farm, Kilima Steps and Coral Cove are home to seahorses, hundreds of nudibranches, pygmy seahorses, mandarinfish and palette surgeonfish
Wideangle - Verde Island, the Alma Jane Wreck and The Canyons all make fantastic wide subjects. Large schools of fish, colourful hard and soft corals and interesting wrecks
Solo - for the trained solo divers we highly recommend West Escarceo, Monkey beach and Kilima Steps for slow photo dives at your own pace. No need to worry about a buddy or a group. Not solo trained ? If you are an advanced diver with a minimum of 100 logged dives contact us about our SDI Solo Diver course
Dive Sites : For Technical divers
Puerto Galera is the home of technical diving in Asia. Deep dive sites are straight off the beach and they are home to large schools of sweetlips and in the winter, thresher sharks. We guide all of the sites within the limits of your training and recent experience
Sweetlips and Marcus's Cave - this wall runs for 100 meters with several large caves and swim- throughs. There is a large school of sweetlips and often a giant reef ray in the cave. Air/Trimix 46~55m
Verde Island Drop Off - a superb deep wall rising up to 3 meters. What could be more perfect, do all your stops on the wall and no blue water drifting. Air/Nitrox/Trimix 30~80m
Joshua's Wall - twin peaks on a flat bottom. A great dive for schools of barracuda, snapper and sweetlips. An easy site to avoid the currents and a great training site for advanced [hypoxic] trimix. Trimix 65~80m
Dive Sites : Day trips
Some of the best diving we offer is just a short boat ride a way. Magnificent walls on Verde Island and Hibo Reef, the bubbling Hot Springs at Chicken Feather Island and
Verde island - a world class dive site with a wall from 3m to 80m. Hundreds of fish and invertebrate species make this site uniquely different from the typical wall. Second dives can also be done on the drop-off, in the Washing Machine or on the site of a 17th Century Spanish Galleon
The Hot Springs - not deep at just 20m but a truly remarkable site. Hot water and gases bubble out of the ground - so hot that you can boil and egg. The surroundign reef has a nice balance of fish and unusual nudibranches. The second dive is made on some shallow canyons that have some of the best coral life in the area. Don't look for this site advertised by too many other dive sites - unpredictable currents and it's off-shore location make us one of the few shops that can find it !
Hibo Reef - is located about 15km from Sabang. A submerged reef domes out at 18m. From there a gentle slope takes you to a wall starting at 30m. The the wall drops off to 92m - great fish life at the 30~40m level with plenty of surgeonfish, batfish, bannerfish, sweetlips and the reef sharks.
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