a perfect hideout for many
creatures, especially frogfish and
cardinalfish.
This is a good dive to use NITROX
as a diver can then slowly work
back up the sandy slope catching
all the macro action on the way.
There will be frogfish, flamboyant
cuttlefish, pipefish, dwarf lionfishes
and lots more. A good guide can
make you feel silly here as they see
things a normal diver tends to
overlook.
- Dauin North and South
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Location: Poblacion Dauin
Depth: 15-100 ft. (4-24m)
This is another one of the small,
buoyed marine sanctuaries found
along the coast and can be done as
a shore dive or by boat. As the small
sanctuaries go, it is actually one of
the bigger ones and divers can split
their dives into an exploration of
north and south. But it can be done
in one dive.
Divers enter and find a sandy
bottom to about 15 ft. (4m). Then
they are greeted by some amazing
hard coral cover that runs across the
sanctuary and down past 75 ft.
(24m). Large fields of staghorn coral
hold clouds of sapphire chromis.
Big cabbage corals hold refuge for
small puffers and the occasionalOpen mouthed frogfish