Diving Guide to the Philippines 2015

Oryoku Maru Icons: Location: Off Alava Pier Depth: 50-90 ft. (15-27m) T he Oryoku was leveled after the war as it sits in the ...

wrecks of Subic Bay. The battleship was commissioned in 1899 as the USS Rochester and subsequently renamed New York. It saw acti ...

fair to good. Try to hit it just after high tide for the best vis. This is a small freighter. It had a major role in WWII and, e ...

Soft coral crab ...

Anilao J ust south of Manila is Batangas Province with some of the best underwater diversity in the Philippines. This place is v ...

Kirby’s Rock Icons: Location: North of Maricaban Island’s western point Depth: 10-130 ft. (3-40m) K irby’s (sometimes called K ...

there’s a crack full of sea life and more of the colorful anthias. Look also for a good selection of nudibranchs, juvenile batfi ...

The reef itself is festooned with gorgonians, black coral, shells and lots of soft corals. Jacks, snappers and, with some luck, ...

occasional dogtooth tuna or schooling yellowtail fusiliers. Turtles like the sandy plain below the wall and there are small cora ...

guessed it... hot springs. They percolate beneath the sea creating bubbles flowing up to the surface. At 33 ft. (10m) at the nor ...

with Coleman shrimp, blue-ring octopus, fluorescent urchins plus lots of gobies and their bulldozer shrimps. It is a great macro ...

along a rocky, boulder-strewn, ridged and sloped reef. The dive starts in a protected eddy and, keeping the reef on the right, g ...

to a sign on the beach and does not allow training or checkout. So the good new here is divers will have the place to themselves ...

hawksbills resting on the bottom including a large, old male. Toward the end of the dive the twins appear in the shallows. They ...

This is also one of a handful of sites in the area that are both protected and allow fish feeding. This makes getting fish photo ...

running into the night and then they rest by day. Others think the site is good any time of the day. Photographer Scott “Gutsy” ...

T he popular whale shark and manta ray viewing area around Donsol and Ticao Island is called Manta Bowl and has become a destina ...

Manta Bowl Icons: Location: Ticao Island Channel Depth: 55 to 80 ft. (17 to 25m) This is one of the major pelagic dive sites i ...

consistant current. These traits make the waters of Ticao an alley for other pelagics like big oceanic mantas, marble rays, tige ...

Bobby’s Wall Icons: Location: South Point of San Miguel Island Depth: 30 -100 ft. (9 - 30m) A long the west side and the far p ...