Diving Guide to the Philippines 2015

manta rays.

104. Sunken Cemetery
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     Location: NW Camiguin
     Depth: 25 -70 ft. (5-20 m)

This is a former land
cemetery site that was
pushed into the sea during
an 1800s volcanic
eruptions. Now marked by an above
the surface white cross, underwater
the reef is alive and well with a
good variety of huge brain and table
corals and a great diversity of
tropical fish life. The slope has nice
hard coral cover interspersed with
soft and leather corals. Cuttlefish
like this site as well as anthias. This
is also quite popular with
snorkelers. There are a couple of
1800s grave markers still visible
underwater here.

105) Old Volcano

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Location: NW Camiguin

Depth: 25 -120 ft. (5-35m)

A fitting dive for an island with

seven volcanoes, this site has sharp

undersea pinnacles formed by the

volcanic lava flow of years ago. The

varied terrain has small walls and

black sand chutes. This can be both

a wide angle dive and macro dive.

Gorgonians on the deeper area

hold pygmy seahorses. Look at the

crinoids to see if there are

ornate ghost pipefish or check

the sponges for hiding frogfish.

The areas with current

flowing over the sand are

home to garden eels. Whitetip

sharks also patrol the reefs.

Also a bonus, usually when

there is some current is the

appearance of eagle rays.

Manta rays and even mobulas

also come to the Old Volcano

site seasonally.

Chromodoris nudibranch

White-eye moral eel